Crazy Old Lady wrote:

> > > Grave of the Boringflies: Japan deserved it. :(
> > You're certainly entitled to your opinion on that.
> The Rape of Nanking and the Bataan Death March aren't really my opinion. :(

No, those are actual events. The OPINION was 'Japan deserved it.'

> It is good to live in a country where I DON'T have to watch shitty
> anime shit all the time, and puke in my soup.

I don't have the puking-soup problem. Are you sure you're not
confusing anime with, say, bulemia?

> > like, say, My Big Fat Greek Wedding...
> If it was Japanese of course, you'd love it.

Not necessarily. There are things Japanese I do not immediately
adore. It could be like the whole cherry blossom thing.

> > I'm over 30. I'm not married. Therefore, I'm a failure?
> A fat failure you mean? Anyway yeah, if you insist, then sure.

I don't feel that I'm a fat failure. You are free to disagree. The
'lesson' from Big Fat Greek Wedding was that 'women over thirty who
are not married are failures', just in case you haven't seen the
movie.

> they exist primarily to cook meals for men and then offer them sex and/or rapes.
> At least that is what your precious anime seems to pass off.

I am not claiming that anime is "vastly superior in every way" to
any other form of light entertainment. You did make that claim for
"American movies", so I picked one that I'd seen recently. I even
picked one that was not a failure the box office. If "American
movies" are so damn stellar, a recent popular one ought to be just
chock-full of that vast superiority I keep hearing about, right? It
wasn't. I found it patronizing, racist, and annoyingly predictable.

> > Or maybe I should think that being ethnic is weird and bad
[snip]
> That is one flabby, fat, smelling-of-foot paragraph.

Nah, it was just a list of possible 'lessons' about humanity and the
uplifting dramatic storytelling that I'm supposed to get out of the
vastly superior American movies on the market today. If it's
'flabby, fat, and smelling-of-foot', then maybe you should take
another look at American movies.

> I don't know, I could not clear away the giant folds of fat to read
> what the point was.

I'll try to stick to short, declarative sentences. If it worked for
Hemingway, it can work for me.

> That's because you watch anime, so there would be nothing that could possibly be worse to e-mail
> strangers to tell them off about. :(

It could also be because I live completely debt free, hold public
office (borough council member), operate a 250k a year business,
enjoy productive leisure activities, and generally avoid
pestering strangers to bolster my self-esteem.

> Well at least you aren't a Chinese person in 1939, or else you would have no choice to be
> heterosexual because your ovaries would be removed by Japanese "doctors" and served raw (or
stewed
> in eel blood) to the emperor.

I'm impressed with that non-sequitor. It totally fails to address
any of the points I made in the paragraph immediately preceding it.
You don't see craftsmanship like that very often these days!

Jessica U. Gothie