Melisande said:
Oh no...
...sure didn't expect to see Miyazaki's face pop up here...
Why him though...now...of all the horrors...? Just curious...
I totally understand your perspective though...
Because I can't stay on topic, ever. Because it's never about one thing, it's about everything with me. Miyazaki, in particular, with a thread on cellulite and self-loathing, because--despite the fact he chopped up a bunch of little girls, he's got a sweet face, doesn't he?
Really scary things, to me, start off or seem inocuous...like necrotizing fasciitis, or the weird kid who everybody thinks is okay but just isn't, or being methodically taken apart by whatever big or little horror that finds you out there or in here. And you're guaranteed this in your own lifetime! But no one ever 'fesses up to it. So we spend our entire lives keeping this horror at bay.
What that has to do with cellulite, I'm not sure: control? power? will?--imposing it on others?--especially women and little girls? I notice reading these forums, particularly TFS forums, that there are some very, very young women here--and incredibly deluded ones at that. (The "ew, gross" phenomenon) Self-disgust, self-loathing, and how dangerous that is.
I just have precursory knowledge of Miyazaki's background--multiple birth defects, tormented as a kid, poorly socialized, deeply deluded--you think we're past the days of Shakespeare when you could tell who the bad guy is because he's got a hunched back and little claw hands. Just the act of saying "this is good", "this is bad, shameful", we create these monsters, be they drug-resistant bacteria or Miyazaki Tsutomu.
I'm aware none of this is earth-shatteringly original, by the way, but I think rescuing a generation of women from the "ew, gross" phenomenon is a worthwhile activity. If you're lucky, girls, you will get cellulite, wrinkles, grow old and die. It's not the worst that could happen.