Dragon Quill

Hello, everyone! We’re back with our regularly (hah!) scheduled spooniness. This time around, I’d like to do something a bit different from my usual: I’m going to perform a textual analysis of a post which tries to explain Shirou’s supposed sexism in the Fate/Stay Night visual novel.

Oh, and don’t worry about the fancy-pants title, this won’t read like a college paper – or heck, even a high school one.

Let me make myself perfectly clear: I am not doing this to “call out” the author, or anything of the sort. I am merely using their post to showcase a common issue in fandoms. Also, one thing we should keep in mind is that communication is difficult; after all, it’s not as if we’re all mind readers capable of immediately ascertaining exactly what someone else is saying, so we have to rely on a variety of things to convey meaning: choice of words, tone of voice, body language. As one can imagine, communication solely by written means is even more difficult, since we can’t rely on two of the methods I mentioned. So, I’ll exercise a reasonable amount of effort when analysing the post (emphasis on reasonable; after all, communication is a two-way street, so the burden doesn’t fall only on the receiver).

Here’s the aforementioned post. After the cut, I’ll proceed to the analysis.
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