i don’t want to achieve equality by sinking to men’s level, i want them to get on ours! why should i have to unlearn the conversational art of waiting my turn, unlearn sexual self-restraint, unlearn trust in others’ good intentions, unlearn the impulse to cater to others’ needs, just to have a chance at success among savages? why can’t the men learn some fucking manners so we can all conduct our affairs in a civilized manner? i shouldn’t have to stop saying sorry, you say sorry!
In the 80s when I was in my freshman year in college, they still had entirely separate mens and women’s dorms. I was in class waiting for a final to start and one of the guys was telling someone about how he had had to go into a women’s dorm to drop something off, and he was startled to see posters on the walls, flowers, curtains, etc. He said his men’s dorm had holes in the walls, things on fire, fights, guys walking around with open wounds and he just didn’t understand why they had to live like this. He said, “I want to live with the women, in civilization.”
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Guys, go support this series. It’s very new, there’s only one episode so far, it’s only 11 minutes, but it’s amazing. The animation is nice, the art style is very fun, there are two different dubs, yes two, one in English and one in Arabic (I think, if I’m wrong, correct me IMMEDIATELY, I only speak English). Both versions have subtitles, too! The them esong is very catchy and fun, their ability to give us more information with just smaller details is pretty great, everything about it is just SO DANG COOL. They need more love, go check it out. It gives off some nice magical girl vibes.
As of 28 may 2018, there are two episodes out! And there are three dubs – formal arabic, informal arabic, and english, captions available on all three as the previous poster mentioned.
The series is called Emara, by Eating Stars Studio. According to this article (posted June 2017) director
Fatma Al Muhairi, an Emirati native (United Arab Emirates), wanted to see more Arab representation in cartoons and animation, and she put together a small team to help her get the job done. It’s a show by
Emirati, for Emirati, featuring a female main character that’s “tough but
down to earth. Not overly powerful, but not breaking down in tears
every two seconds, either. Most of all: she wanted her to be Arab.”
In terms of the show, it’s a really fun take on older anime styles (though when I say older, I mean older than 2010). The theme song, the animation style, the way backdrops are painted, they all lend to to the magical girl genre, its tropes, etc. Even in the gifset above, you can begin to see that callback to that animation style, with very exaggerated movements and the expressions, the slow-mo. Hell, even the logo for Emara is very anime, and Al Muhairi did say how she did reference old cartoons she and her team watched growing up.
As of the publishing of the above article, one of the team members/affiliates is hoping to push for at least 1 million views for the videos. Only then does he believe that the show has a fighting chance to make it on TV.
They also mention in the article that the director would prefer if fans
watched it on streaming services like Netflix. It doesn’t quite seem to
actually be on Netflix yet, so I assume that watching through the
Youtube links above is our next best bet.
“On YouTube, you know very well how many people are watching, and
advertisers will advertise on the show if it passes a certain number of
viewership,” said [Mohammad Saeed
Harib.] “If it hits the one million mark, [TV] stations
will wake up, anyway. The numbers don’t lie.”
Director Al Muhairi told the paper, “I know I am [hungry for representation], and I know a lot of people I
work with, they are as well. We did this hoping that the majority agrees
with us, and so far we’ve had a lot of good feedback, so I think we’re
on the right track.”
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