April 29, 2007
May 4, 2007
May 5, 2007
May 6, 2007

April 29, 2007

Okay, yes, I'll admit it - I like Ouran. It's silly and dumb and oh so very cheesy, and as a feminist I occasionally take issue with it, but it's fun, damn it. Actually, the reason I initially started watching Ouran was because of Feminist Rage after reading a mildly inaccurate summary of it on Wikipedia. The description said (I don't know if it still does or not; you never can tell with Wiki) that Ouran High School Host Club is about a club of guys who charm women to make money off of them. It went on to describe that, when Haruhi breaks an expensive vase, she's roped into being the club's "dog" in order to pay it off.

If you can't see why that would be Feminist Rage inducing, go back to remedial school.

Anyway, I thought that I should at least make sure that my Feminist Rage was accurate, and so I went off and watched the first episode. And a resounding, "Oh, that's what it meant" was heard throughout the land.

I kept watching for a while, because hey, it's funny, and eventually I got to the eighth episode. Which came within an inch of sending of my Feminist Rage-ometer.

The first thing that got to me was, of course, Tamaki's "You can't fight stupid drunken bastards! You're a girl!" For a while there, I was kind of hoping that Haruhi would pull a Caska and stab him in the eye with a stick (or a crab claw, I guess, seeing as how there aren't a lot of sticks on the beach). Then we eventually got to Kyouya's "i rapez j00 lolzorz" scene, wherein Haruhi does nothing but goes "Oh, you're so sweet, teehee." Or something like that. My personal thoughts on that scene were basically, "Look where your legs are in relation to him! Kick, damn it! Make sure he never has an heir to that fortune!"

I eventually forgave Ouran for offending my feminist ideals and moved onto the next episode - wherein the Psychotic Lesbian Feminist Brigade shows up. Now, I have nothing against feminists (of which I am one, if I haven't said it enough for it to sink in) or lesbians (which I am not, unfortunately), but these bitches are crazy. I mean, really, men-are-horrible-pigs-and-ZOMG-OPPRESSIONZ! crazy.

*Sigh* And I'm going to keep watching it, of course, because it's funny, even if it does give my feminist mind a headache.

May 4, 2007

Okay, I just have to ask this: Whose brilliant idea was it to make a pink school? Did some idiot designer go, "You know what would be utterly fabulous? An entire school, all of it - PINK! Marvelous, just marvelous!"

If so, I sincerely hope that designer is dead now, because Ouran looks ridiculous.

May 5, 2007

You know, I fucking love this show. I don't even know why; it's horribly cheesy and dumb, especially the ending. It suffered from a severe case of, "Oh, shit, it's the second-to-last episode; we'd better throw some plot in now! Hurry, character development! Hurry!" The Haruhi-chasing-after-Tamaki-in-a-horse-drawn-carriage thing was horribly unbelievable (especially since there must have been some damage done to it after Hikaru was thrown off), and I really thought that she was smarter than to let go of the reins. The horses were thoroughly impressive, though, to be able to catch up to a car that was already way ahead of them. Also, that was one hell of a jump Tamaki did, being able to leap out of his car and over the carriage and off the bridge, right into Haruhi's arms.

And I ate up every minute of it.

Why? I don't know. It was pure cheese - the sort of thing you'd see in any one of a million romantic comedy flicks. (Why do they always have chase scenes? Why?) And yet it was still entertaining in the extreme.

May 6, 2007

I just rewatched the eighth episode, and it still pisses me off. And since this page is for ranting, that is exactly what I intend to do.

Alright, I can admit that what Haruhi did was not the brightest thing in the world. If she doesn't know how to fight and there's help nearby, then of course she should've gotten help instead of jumping into the fray. I understand that. What bothers me is Tamaki's immediate reaction of "You're a girl! You don't do stuff like that!"

And then there's Kyouya. His little "I'm gonna sex you up" bit is just...gah. Rage. Incoherence. Can't type through anger.