Just recently, Netflix released a trailer and a key visual for the upcoming Anime series, Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (大奥) which is slated to be released on June 29, 2023 on Netflix. Now, we already know that Netflix has always pushed a certain kind of content on their platform to usually cater to the woke LGBT crowd, so, it’s not really a streaming platform for anything mildly conservative in general.
We obviously know this and it doesn’t come out as a big surprise to us, but the Anime category has been mostly left alone in this factor which I’ve appreciated. Still, recently there has been a shift to more simp content like The Way of the Househusband, which is about a man rejecting his masculine traits to become a cuck loser at home – don’t get me wrong it’s somewhat entertaining. However, once you understand what they are trying to achieve with the series, it fundamentally changes the way you feel about it.
Now, let me explain a bit about what is Ooku about in terms of its premise.
During the Edo period in Japan (1603 to 1868), a peculiar and novel illness known as the Redface Pox emerged, specifically afflicting the male populace. Over the course of 80 following the initial outbreak, the male population dwindled to a mere quarter of the total female population. Consequently, women assumed all roles conventionally assigned to men, including that of the Shogun. In this paradigm, men, revered as cherished life providers, were diligently safeguarded, while the most exquisite among them were chosen to serve within the Inner Chambers of the Shogun.
The manga has been previously adapted into Live action and also has received the Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy’s fifth annual Sense of Gender Awards in 2005, and the Grand Prize of the 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009. So, this already kinda gives you the idea why this has been a great pick for Netflix to further push their “narrative”.
Matriarchy is a Fantasy and a Delusional One at That
When we are talking about women leaders (in political positions) or girl bosses, that is not a concept that has ever been able to compete with male leadership in a historical context. When it comes to women’s entrepreneurial success, all the Top 10 richest women on the planet have basically inherited their money. No woman has ever ranked among the Top 50 greatest political leaders and conquerors of all time. It’s a silly proposal.
“No successful society or civilization was founded or based on the Matriarchy” is a common position held by many anthropologists. Encyclopedia Britannica lists it as a hypothetical social system. We very well know the natural reason for this, it’s because women are not born leaders nor do they have the ability to inspire men (Simping is not a form of inspiration FYI) and obviously, modern media and pundits will try to tell you otherwise, but the facts remain.
The same applies to women’s right to vote, no civilization or successful nation has been built on the foundation that women have the ability to vote in elections. Not a single one!
If anything, the increase of women leaders & voters in Europe has caused an increase in pro-immigration parties which lead to higher crime rates in countries with high immigration such as Sweden for instance. Furthermore, in France there has been a 1000% increase in rape in the last 40 years. Europe & the United States have significantly become more unsafe over the decades.
Women may be able to inspire other women under their leadership, but ultimately, only high-quality men can inspire both genders and that is one of the prime reasons why promoting anything related to matriarchy and feminism mis going to lead to very bad results.
Female Shogun wouldn’t Rule Long, it’s not Realistic
Now, there was “technically” a female shogun that was kinda in charge for a while, but if you look into her history, she ruled over a very unstable and conflict-heavy time period in Japan. Men don’t see women as capable and there will eventually be men who would want to overthrow her (maybe that’s a plot in the series too) but even if the male population were to dwindle down by 75%, that doesn’t actually mean that men would lose male positions in the labor force or in political positions, so this idea is absurd at best.
I don’t know if it’s a lack of experience or traveling, but certain mangaka have a very poor understanding of human nature and how they behave especially outside of Japanese social systems. The idea of a Female shogun leading a country and women taking the role of the men is just something that wouldn’t happen. Of course, this doesn’t happen in the modern day so it’s more believable. However, that doesn’t mean women would be able to do hard labor jobs or want to do them, because they have natural leanings towards different jobs.
Obviously, anime is a source of fiction, but even pieces of fiction draw in from things that are actually real and this is something I’ve struggled a lot with certain anime characters that may have different ethnicity, as they wouldn’t act or be anything like the live counterparts in this planet. Just because the character is colored like a Middle Eastern or black, doesn’t exactly make them that automatically there is more to ethnicity than that.
I have not read the manga, but according to statements by people who have reviewed it, it has murder, incest, drama, rape, and potentially other taboo subjects. So, it’s not exactly apparently a successful society if so much crime is going on, I guess? Then again, if it was the reverse, it’s still a piece of fiction.
Perhaps I will watch and review this series, it might be good but it’s sending the wrong message to the world. Reversing gender roles is going to have natural resistance and people are already reacting to that on the global stage and in media, it’s only a matter of time before feminist/matriarchal movements will become the laughingstocks of the world again.
“I have not watched this show, but let me tell about how it’s aiming to destroy society!”
Brilliant.
“Women do not have the ability to inspire men.”
Oh yes, also very brilliant. It’s not like there have been very successful female leaders of groups of any size, ranging between criminal enterprises and entire, friggin’ Empires. I guess those must have been secretly men?
Honestly, this entire article is such a sad read, you really need to go outside and touch some grass. Maybe meet some actual, living women that aren’t digital.
Those women inherited those empires they never built them. All top cartels have been ran by men thats a fact. You’re free to cite sources if you can, but you have yet to debunk anything so far.
Go touch some grass? You can tell this idiot is a product of woke culture just by the way it/they/them/whatevertheeff talks. Lmao
Ooku has very little to do with feminism. The fact that you think that shows how little you understand about oppression and/or equality. It’s sad to be honest. And the show itself is rough, badly written and horribly animated. The storytelling is full if cheap exposition and ridiculous decision making. And the casual rape scenes are disgusting.
I Understand about equality, but i do not care for it. You’re just mad that its not your flavor of feminism basically
To be honest the whole show is just a cavalcade of sexual violence and a multitude of other kinds of abuse of men, women, even animals, with almost no point whatsover. AND it’s homophic to boot. It’s a fucking disgrace and has zero to do with feminism.
Matriarchy has everything to do with feminism
Did you even watch the show? There is no matriarchy. The female shogun is little more than a breeding pig, all the decisions are still made by men, and even when the women fully take over and reveal to the country that the shogun has been a woman, she literally announces, of her own free will, “this is a temporary measure, once the male population stabilizes the men will inherit the family name again”.
I swear you anti-woke types have zero media literacy. There was nothing feminist about this anime.
“All free cartels have been ran by men thats a fact”
Like it’s even a fucking comparison worth of anything
You are so out of touch, and clearly show your hamburgerized beyond reason point of view, when the first thing you mention as a counterargument are vile trash beings beyond the south border of your Water Nation
If rather than spewing all this “feminism is out to destroy my male supremacy” crap, you did even a simple google search with an honest intent to learn about Female Leaders in Asia you’d at least know how stupid are things you’re trying to argue about
Let me even spoonfeed you few prompts
li naotora
Onamihime (Onami Date)
She Aizhen
Though considering what you’ve been writing here on this site to date, I honestly doubt any logic and reason can even get to you at this point, and it’s really sad
First of all not from America. None seriously considers any women in top 50 leaders of all time, people you mentioned are irrelevant in grand scheme of things. If you look at recent female leaders in asia you can talk about Park Geun-hye who got impeached https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Park_Geun-hye and in Brazil Dilma Roussef, who also got kicked out of office (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilma_Rousseff#:~:text=Dilma%20Vana%20Rousseff%20(Brazilian%20Portuguese,office%20on%2031%20August%202016.)
Given the mathematical context of female presidents vs. male presidents, that number is horrendous. Women suck at leading and always will
It’s weird to criticise this show because its premise is seemingly unrealistic when so much anime is fantasy/sci fi and thus, by default, is unrealistic too, but somehow when the protagonist is male and the story caters to men it’s all okay? However a story that caters to the female gaze is feminist nonsense?? Wow, how audacious to think that anime is watched by males only when plenty of girls and women also watch anime and consume manga, and therefore stories written by them for them are just as valid as stories written by men for a male target audience.
Guess what, not everything is for everyone and that’s okay. You don’t have to watch it but don’t denounce it due to your bigotry and prejudices. And anyway if you had watched it, the show is pretty thorough in detailing the trials and tribulations that a mass wipeout of men would do to a society that is patriarchal and male dominated. It won’t be comfortable viewing for someone with your perspective and male privilege, but if you are open, you might learn something and develop some level of empathy.
But only if you want to. You can stick to your troll cave and rave all you want about a show you may never watch due to possessing acute sensitivity and feebleness whenever anything doesn’t revolve around you and your narrow world view.
This has nothing to do with Bigotry, its pure sexism. But let me destroy you quickly in this debate though
Just because there are male protagonist in a show or its been done by a male, it doesn’t automatically correlate them as “Masculine” or for male audience, that is simply a binary decision based on popular consumer trends. So this argument is faulty by its premise.
I’m perfectly allowed to denounce this narrative however just as a consumer of Netflix’s product and paying subscriber. Even if I wasn’t, I would still critique it. Also there is no male privilege that is absolute nonsense its completely reverse in western society, where women hold the power in legal courts and dating markets.
Lastly this has nothing to do with empathy idk why you would even bring it up.
I will probably never come back to this website again, for I have no need, which means I won’t reply if you do, but I just wanted to tell you to get the fuck out of your goddamn house and off the internet you piece of shit. You are sensitive, dumb, and have been living under a goddamn rock. Male privilege is VERY much a thing in Western society– and I’m pretty sure it always has been. Also, you clearly have no understanding of what feminism actually is, so let me tell you. Feminism definition: the advocacy of women’s rights based on the equality of the sexes. Another definition: Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that societies prioritize the male point of view and that women are treated unjustly in these societies. Matriarchy is not feminism. Equality is feminism. Also, to combat your claims of “women holding the power in legal courts”; Women only hold 33.6% of judgeships in Supreme Courts. Law has been used as a means of keeping power from women, and only recently have decisions of the United States Supreme Court shown a chink in the masculine armor. And to another one of your replies that said ‘Women suck at leading and always will’, I’d like to mention lovely women who were amazing fucking rulers. Cleopatra, Hatshepsut, Elizabeth I, Empress Suiko, Maria Theresa, Anne Boleyn, Börte Khan, Empress Wu Zetian, and Nefertiti. You can research how great of rulers these women were, and before you go on about ‘oh, but they aren’t Western’ shut your American ass the fuck up, some were Western, idiot. Female leaders demonstrate more transformational leadership styles, according to a landmark 1992 meta-analysis of 61 studies led by Eagly. Also: Women are more likely to epitomize what’s good in the organization and inspire people to go along with its mission, compared with men, study results show. Let’s move on to male privilege now. Male privilege is the system of advantages or rights that are available to men on the basis of their sex. A man’s access to these benefits may vary depending on how closely they match their society’s ideal masculine norm.
Academic studies of male privilege were a focus of feminist scholarship during the 1970s. These studies began by examining barriers to equity between the sexes. In later decades, researchers began to focus on the intersectionality and overlapping nature of privileges relating to sex, race, social class, sexual orientation, and other forms of social classification. Special privileges and status are granted to males in patriarchal societies. These are societies defined by male supremacy, in which males hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege, and control of property. With systemic subordination of women, males gain economic, political, social, educational, and practical advantages that are more or less unavailable to women. The long-standing and unquestioned nature of such patriarchal systems, reinforced over generations, tends to make privilege invisible to holders; it can lead males who benefit from such privilege to ascribe their special status to their own individual merits and achievements, rather than to unearned advantages. In the field of sociology, male privilege is seen as embedded in the structure of social institutions, as when men are often assigned authority over women in the workforce, and benefit from women’s traditional caretaking role. Some negative advantages accompanying male privilege include such things as the expectation that a man will have a better chance than a comparably qualified woman of being hired for a job, as well as being paid more than a woman for the same job. The term “male privilege” does not apply to a solitary occurrence of the use of power, but rather describes one of many systemic power structures that are interdependent and interlinked throughout societies and cultures. Privilege is not shared equally by all males. Those who most closely match an ideal masculine norm benefit the most from privilege. In Western patriarchal societies, this ideal has been described as being “white, heterosexual, stoic, wealthy, strong, tough, competitive, and autonomous”. Men’s studies scholars refer to this ideal masculine norm as hegemonic masculinity. While essentially all males benefit from privilege to some degree, those who visibly differ from the norm may not benefit fully in certain situations, especially in the company of other men that more closely match it. Men who have experienced bullying and domestic violence in youth, in particular, may not accept the idea that they are beneficiaries of privilege. Such forms of coercive violence are linked to the idea of toxic masculinity, a specific model of manhood that creates hierarchies of dominance in which some are favored and others are harmed. The invisibility of male privilege can be seen for instance in discussions of the gender pay gap in the United States; the gap is usually referred to by stating women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s. However, using women’s pay as the baseline highlights the dividend that males receive as greater earnings (32% in 2005). In commerce, male dominance in the ownership and control of financial capital and other forms of wealth has produced disproportionate male influence over the working classes and the hiring and firing of employees. In addition, a disproportionate burden is placed upon women in employment when they are expected to be solely responsible for child care; they may be more likely to be fired or be denied advancement in their profession, thus putting them at an economic disadvantage relative to men. Wanna tell me that male privilege is nonsense again buddy? You’re also cherry-picking female leaders to group every single female into the idea that all of them are bad leaders. Another thing you said ‘They all inherited, never built them’ This can be said for literally fucking any leader after the goddamn first or second you neanderthal. And yet ANOTHER thing you got wrong: women are included in the top 50 leaders and many consider them– many that actually do fucking research instead of yapping about shit they don’t know. The women included are Elizabeth I, once again, Catherine the Great, Cleopatra, and Joan of Arc. And I’ll also say it AGAIN: Feminism means equality, not matriarchy. I am aware that you probably come from a country and believe in a religion where women are viewed as lower, weak, horrible leaders, etc. But that doesn’t excuse your idiocy, blindness, and pure sensitivity. From what I’ve read, you’re also probably not just trolling, which makes this is even worse because these were literally just pixels that you went on a whole unnecessary rant about. Anyway, tschüss. I have to get back to being productive, unlike you.
You just cited famous female leaders, but that has nothing to do with them being great. Cleopatra lost husbands twice and had to take her life because she was about lose the war lmao. Anne Boleyn was executed, how is this a great leader? Can’t even produce offspring for the King. None of these women can be compared to the greatest leaders in their own respective countries i’m sorry..
I really don’t know how person, who clearly didn’t even care about getting to know about the story and details of it, can write any post with telling any opinion about it. The more ridiculous it gets when that person is trying to compare real world to fantasy story.
Also idea that men would never give up positions in labor is funny thing to read. How can you know what left 25% of males would do if they had such a privilege as to be in deficit. Have you ever listened how Chinese families treated their sons in the period of the “only one child” law? And now imagine that only 1/4 of families can actually have son.
Look at the dates this post predates the shows premiere in Netflix.
My dude, it is clear that you have not watched the show… (and if the show hasn’t yet been aired, then you simply shouldn’t write a post about it)
1. The word of Ooku is not feminist at all, in many aspects it is even misogynistic. For example, although women are becoming the head of the family and taking on important positions in court, they still have to change their name to a man’s.
2. Feminisim is not at all about women ruling over men, but about equal rights. That means that one that fits the jobs best can take that position- it doens’t matter if they are a man or a woman if they have the knowledge and experience. If we look at the world of Ooku, we soon realise that there is not much equality in it, therefore it cannot be feminist.
3. It js true that there are not as many historically accomplished women as men- but why is that? Firstly, due to sexism, they were not allowed to work and were forced to do housework. It is quite an interesting thought, that exactly because of this- because women took care of everything at home- men could entirely focus on their work. It is not that women didn’t want to work, it’s that they were not allowed to study, work in high-paying jobs or be seen as equals.
Right now our society is becoming more and more equal, however, because of people similar to you, women are still denied chances to this day. There is no scientific proof that all men are smarter than women. Some women are smarter then some men, and vice versa.
4. This is just a fictional word, it was never that serious
5. Simply the fact that you reply to all of the messages shows how much you need to go outside and touch some grass- grow up, it’s the 21st century!
I hope you take your time and think about the comments people made- no hard feelings.
This was a reaction to the trailer, in no point it says this is a review of the series.
Having a melty over a piece of media one didn’t watch is such a man thing to do.
Look at the dates
I was browsing the web looking for intelligent reviews about this anime and the issues it convey… Then I found this crap… Second paragraph in and I knew this was written by an idiot.
Get a life dude. Sigh…
Your opinion is immediately invalidated by being a woman, don’t think you have anything smart to say.
Oh wow, tell me you’re intimidated by female opinions without telling me you’re intimidated by female opinions LMAO
No intimidation, just knowing that they are inferior ideas to men hence irrelevant and shouldn’t be preferred.