Posted in Anime, Conventions, Gender, Manga, tagged AMV, androgyny, anime, anime music videos, bisexuality, bishōnen, Black Butler, Ciel Phantomhive, creepy crossdressers, cross-dressing, Dick Saucer, Dude Looks Like A Lady, fan disservice, femininities, Fujioka Haruhi, Fujioka Ryōji, Gender, gender fluidity, gender norms, gender performance, gender play, gender rebels, gender roles, gender sloths, Gourry Gabriev, Ikari Shinji, manga, masculinities, Ouran High School Host Club, passing, Ranka, Sword Art Online, transvestism on 2014/05/30| 13 Comments »
In Part 3 of this series, Kathryn and I will be examining cross-dressing in comedies and comedic tropes about cross-dressing. Can cross-dressing be treated as more than the butt of a joke? Yes!
Part 2 here. All images safe for work. Mild spoilers for the works discussed; some larger spoilers for Ouran.
Haruhi Fujioka has no time for your gender nonsense. Via Gagging on Sexism.
Posted in Ôoku, Blog, tagged cross-dressing, Fujioka Haruhi, Gender, Hiraga Gennai, Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Oooku, panel, Ōoku on 2014/04/20| 6 Comments »
First of all, many thanks to the audience member who attended Kathryn‘s and my Sakuracon panel “Cross-dressing for Fun and Profit in Anime and Manga”! You were all great, and we enjoyed your questions and feedback. We’re planning on publishing a version of our presentation on our blogs (and hopefully elsewhere if we’re lucky) complete with images and hyperlinks, so stay tuned.
Hiraga Gennai, though (Vol. 10, p. 104)
Although we ended up having to rush through the section on Ôoku, there seemed to be a lot of interest in the series. I realized when I was writing down information on Ôoku for a lovely con-goer who approached us afterward to chat about the series and Hiraga Gennai that I really, really needed to better organize my Ôoku posts instead of sending people to the category, which is starting to get rather large. (more…)
