Postby oOoOoOo » Tue Jun 08, 2010 3:06 pm
Gendo putting his hand through Rei's breast, to me, called to mind the relationship between Rei and Yui, and the whole reason Gendo was doing everything. Rei was always a little bit more than a daughter for him, I think.
Now, anyway, all this talk about fanservice is really a discussion about what turns males on, when men are actually sexualized just as much as women are. The thing is, society considers male sexual traits to be awesome, and female sexual traits to be depraved and evil.
Consider biology. A woman's biological worth is her wombcraft, her physical body, upper body for milk production and lower body for baby-pushing. A man's biological worth, on the other hand, is his ability to kill things and protect his genetic legacy.
An example of a sexualized woman would be a half-naked model in a magazine. An example of a sexualized man would be James Bond. The male equivalent of skimpy lingerie is a tuxedo.
Just go outside and look at how men and women dress differently. Even my female friends who complain about creepy guys leering at them along the bike path still wear outfits designed to demonstrate how ready they are to have their wombs filled. (This doesn't excuse creepiness, but I accept that men will look at my legs if I expose them, just as I will look at a man's million-dollar suit if he wears it, or his gleaming Corvette if he drives it.)
So Ikari Gendo is basically fanservice for women, as he is one of the most powerful men in the Eva world, and dresses in a "look at how important I am" uniform. Same with Kaji, as he is a special agent who probably can handle a gun and "get things done". Do you know how many young girls wanted to get fucked by Hitler in the 1930s? God, the stories my grandmother could tell you. And most action heroes (Jack Bauer anyone?) are sociopathic monsters.
Notice how in male-female pairs the male is often older? Age means experience, which means you can kill and protect and provide better. A younger woman means more chances to create babies. Biologically speaking, old guys and schoolgirls makes perfect sense. So it isn't surprising that schoolgirls are fetishized...because, biologically, having sex with adolescent girls is the point of being a man.
If you look around outside, right now, today, you'll see "fanservice" everywhere, so it makes sense that we'd see it in TV shows and whatnot. The stuff in Evangelion (any of the versions) doesn't strike me as unnecessary. I mean, if I put on a really tight plugsuit, I'd probably look at myself and think how tight and revealing it is. Sort of hard to ignore that shit.
(That being said, I wish men and women alike were evaluated on different levels, but it's pretty hard to fight biology. Also, a lot of this rant really only makes sense in a reasonably egalitarian society.)
~ O-chan is soooo 2D right now.