Re: The Reputation Hilarity/Insanity thread
[Quick Edit: I may have misread Sin's posts it seems regarding the stereotype matter, but I'll leave this post anyway.]
Just for the record, I got the joke/understood what Cappy was saying fine and didn't read ill intent into it.
I think part of the issue here is that whilst there may well be room left to improve on equality, the concept of "feminism" seems old fashioned nowadays. Not in the sense that people aren't interested any more, but that it's accepted and taken as standard.
It's a bit like if a black gathering led a highly vocal anti racism rally through the streets of London today. People wouldn't oppose their cause at all, but they'd be bewildered to see them doing it.
Unfortunately modern feminist activity has gained itself a reputation as agressive outspoken crusaders trying their hardest to find fault in everything around them, and has built a rather harmful stereotype. Remember the talk show radio station in GTA: Vice city, with the angry "feminist" proudly talking about murdering her husband and all that? GTA takes the piss out of everyone, but that's the well known stereotype, and it was the stereotype that Cappy was talking about.
For anyone following feminist movements such as Equality Now spear heading the charge on demanding a ban on hentai due to it being degrading to women, and the resulting disputes when they collide with female hentai artists, the situation Cappy described is actually quite familiar.