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I just pointed out that the baby analogue doesn't really fit when talking about cultures. Shaking a baby is proven to be damaging to a baby, so if that happens, authorities should be called so that the situation can be resolved, but since cultures don't have authorities, it is not a good comparison.
All cultures have something good in them (or otherwise they wouldn't exist, or would quickly die out), but there is no such thing as a perfect culture, that's really what everyone is trying to improve.
Japanese feminists, for example, tries to improve things, and it's mainly from them that I've shaped my view on anime and manga, along with some of my own discoveries and experiences (also called bias); some are feminist, some are not, and some simply strive to give a image of the real world.
Furthermore, while there are some general consensus amongst feminists, not everyone agrees on everything. What I've used is by own basis of feminism, but it's hardly the only version of it.
I mean, some find porn and sex work degrading and should be banned. Some find them empowering. Some find stay-at-home mums inherently degrading, others find that as long as it was choice made by the mum it's alright. This can go on forever, and sometimes there's war between the different view points.
One of the things that makes the question "Is shoujo manga inherently anti-feminist?" so hard to answer is because there are so many different types of feminism, and different ways they are implemented.
And I never said that my view point was the only right one. Can you come up with where I said it, and counter arguments to my arguments? Or can we agree to disagree? Because I can certainly not speak for anyone else but myself.
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