Tag: sexualization

• Betty Boop and Hentai Studies

  

  This episode on Betty Boop is our final episode of the season, and one of my favorites because I get to talk about hentai, one of my favorite subjects to study. I have a complicated relationship with hentai. On the one hand, I really don’t care what a person’s kinks are. On the other hand, […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 18, 2019

  Anime/Manga, Film Studies, Sexuality

  Betty Boop, cartoons, classic animation, Feminism, Gendering Robots, Hayes Code, hentai, Identification, independence, male gaze, objectification, sexualization, Tijuana bibles

• Categorizing Fractured Fandom

  

  Defining Fractured Fandom According to the discipline of fan studies, at this point in history, being a fan is considered a positive for any individual. Being a fan helps people discover their identities, and to determine what they like and do not like. Being a fan helps people find friends, establish communities, and develop a […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 12, 2015

  Anime/Manga, Audience/Reception Studies, Comics Studies, Communication Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Digital Games, Fandom, Internet Studies

  antifans, anxiety, Avril Lavigne, blackface, bronies, canon, cosplay, creativity, cultural appropriation, DC, dialogue, Discourse, diversity, echo chambers, emasculation, empathy, fake geek girls, fanatics, fanboys, Fandom, fanon, fans, filter bubbles, fractured fandom, furries, GamerGate, gender, gender appropriateness, Gwen Stefani, hate-watching, hooligans, identity, ideology, insecurity, insularity, Julianne Hough, Katy Perry, legitimacy, love, Marvel, otaku, perspective-taking, privilege, producers, racism, reactionary, Respect, rivalries, Rule 34, sexism, sexualization, Shipping, Slash, snarking, sports, Star Trek, Star Wars, stereotypes, trolling, Twihards, Virtual Reality, yellowface

• The Fetishistic Turn in My Little Pony

  

  This blog post originally appeared at Clearance Bin Review almost a year ago, in consideration for the then upcoming release of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic movie Equestria Girls.  Given my research on that topic, I decided to bring it here as well, under the umbrella that is the fractured fandom project. Almost […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 17, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Sexuality

  agency, anthropomorphism, bronies, clopfic, Equestria Girls, fan activity, fan art, fetish, fetishes, hentai, My Little Pony, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, sexualization, Slash, uncanny valley

• Problems with Perceptions in Fandom

  

  Part of the process of understanding the phenomenon of fractured fandom is to gather stories that thematically reveal its nature, such as my ongoing analysis of how My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fans reacted to the feature film Equestria Girls and its soon-to-be sequel Rainbow Rocks.  The more stories we can gather, then the more […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 14, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Gender Studies

  attitudes, beliefs, C2E2, cognitive dissonance, cosplay, cultural psychology, fake geek girl, Fandom, fans, feelings, geekdom, geeks, gender appropriateness, imposter syndrome, interpretations, Men, misogynistic extremism, misogyny, misperceptions, nerds, perceptions, Psychology, Sense-making, sexism, sexist, sexualization, social psychology, women

• From Jezebel: DC Comics Contest: Draw a Naked Woman Committing Suicide

  Seriously, just what is wrong with DC lately?  Have the editors in charge taken leave of their senses?  Has the success of Marvel as of late completely rattled them? First the horrendous sexualization of women in the New 52 (and everything else idiotic since then).  Then the horrendous death of Lois Lane to spur a […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 7, 2013

  Comics Studies

  Adventure Time, Batwoman, Children, Comics, DC Comics, Doctor Who, Harley Quinn, Jimmy Palmiotti, Lois Lane, Marvel Comics, My Little Pony, New 52, scandal, sexualization, violence

• Equestria Girls: Targeting Furries?

  This will definitely be receiving more academic treatment from me, as I do some side projects on the issues of gender and reception surrounding My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.  This new movie turns the ponies into quasi-humans (they retain their pony colors but in human form).  Hasbro says they are trying to target teenage […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 12, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  bronies, Equestria Girls, fan activity, fetish, furries, Hasbro, Marketing, My Little Pony, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Rule 34, sexualization