Kanoa-Chan, do you
watch the show?
If there's another program called Inuyasha on
at 11:00 PM on Adult Swim, please tell me!
I will check it out immediately.
WARNING: You have trigged
my sarcasm mode.In the animé that I watch, Inuyasha typically
responds to this action that you propose that
he "kinda likes" with
vaguestatements such as:
"Will you cut that out?!"
or
"Will you
please[/i] cut that out?!"
Most recently, Inuyasha was slammed to the
ground by Kagome for implying that Miroku
and the Princess were making out in
the basement, which, knowing Miroku,
it probably
would have led to much
more than that, had the princess not turned
out to be a demon.
Upon being slammed to the ground, if you
watch
very closely (and yeah, I'm sure
I'm going to be called "mean" for using sarcasm
here), you'll see that Inuyasha opens his
mouth, and proceeds to yell the following
question at Kagome's presence:
"WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO DO THAT?!"Now, if anyone has that episode on DVD/VHS/DVR/
PVR, PLEASE try to prove to me that that
isn't what
Inuyasha said. Beside the fact that nearly
every time he asks "Will you cut that out?!", this
statement seems to provide ample ground for
believing that he
doesn't like that.
I really don't think he gets any sort of pleasure out of it.
And if he did, I couldn't help but imagine it being in some sick S/M sense,
which...........ugh, I think the show could do without,
thank you very much. No.........I don't REALLY
think that if your boyfriend treated you that way,
Kanoa-Chan, that you'd be all that crazy about it,
either.
Oh, but it's funny! Ha. Ha.
And yes, as I'm sure you've figured out by now,
I'm quite bitter about this subject. Watching Inuyasha
has always been a love/hate sort of thing for me,
because I was once in an abusive relationship where
I was manipulated and controlled, and ever since I broke
free from it the one thing that seriously pisses me off in
the world is when someone isn't treated with the
decency and respect they deserve. Sexism and racism
are the only real problems with the way American
society conducts itself. Why? Cuz it's
funny to say all
men are pigs if you're a girl. And, it's
funny to
say all women as weak sex objects if you're a guy.
But these sort of things irritate the living hell out of me
Can't we all treat each other at the same level of
respect we wish those would treat us?
Yes, it's just a TV show, but it's a TV show I happen
to watch a lot because of all of it's reedeming
qualities that weigh against this one little thing.
One tiny little thing that drives me crazy because
I don't feel Inuyasha should be treated at a different
level than Miroku or Sango are treated. They're both
human beings, too. But.....because Inu has dog
ears (where's Sesshomaru's, btw?)....
..it's OK to render the treatment of a dog to him,
even if it's every now and then?
How can someone be all "Ooooh, KagomexInuyasha,
lol!" without ever noticing the flip side of the so-called relationship?
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In closing: The romance of the show has it's
definite appeal, as I always eagerly await a new
episode starring Miroku and Sango together. But,
if you can see such a thing as the main character of the
show being treated as a dog (every now and then, now--
I never said this happened constantly) and then
expressing his distaste for it in every single situation
that it
disconveniences him in as being such a little thing
as to just shrug it off and suppose that
he LIKES it, I wonder
if any of the action or plot elements
fly right by you as well?
I mean that as no insult, so please do not take
it as one. I have watched entire animé series
without picking up on vital details that I was
only informed of after I viewed them.
Sorry if I've offended anyone by my cheap
sarcasm in this long-drawn epic post.
I seriously am. One last sarcastic statement
before someone inevitably calls me mean,
however:
Perhaps I've wasted all of this space.....
And perhaps it would turn out that Inuyasha's head
is made of rubber or some other durable
substance, a la Monkey D. Luffy of One Piece.
Super Hyper-Death Black-Metal-Dragon
Sarcastic Mode Transmission.....END![/u]
There! I'm all done now!