okay well I am about to write an essay in this reply bc I have nowhere else to yell abt this opinion....
I just think Howl should've been a girl. and if not, the popular consensus should've been that Howl IS a girl and that he and sophie are lesbians. but idk people are straight and think that the tradhet of hmc is somehow so powerful and epic -.- tell me what is moving and epic love story about an insecure girl who does housework pining after a cocky brat hero protag? at least if HOWL was A GIRL AS WELL it'd be epic since tradhet but LESBIANOS is EPIC, MOVING, DEEPLY POWERFUL, UNBEATABLE, etc etc. like at the end when they end up with the same haircut... litcherally would've been so crazy IF it was >what if we were both girls and we ended up resembling each other at the end/start of our love story< like it's crazy then bc ... girls. but just from the lens of a typical boygirl romance, this is just a fantasy romance told from the perspective from the girl -.- which would be one thing if like um, sophie's one trait wasn't that she just Really Loved Howl [though her taking care of granny was v v impactful. To Me] ... but like It Was.
idk what I find annoying about the fan perception is that they are so keen on howl being The Ideal Boy/Man when I'm pretty sure the intent was to have him be one of those genderless boys... like TO ME, it feels very obvious that the intent of howl's character design is clearly that He's Not A Boy...which is kinda like all ghibli boy designs ig, but I think it's especiallyyyy prominent in howl, with the similarities to sophie's own design... SO IF PEOPLE JUST REALIZED... THAT HOWL IS A GIRL... which then also is so epic because when u are two girls who are the same girl...which I think the movie was also trying to get at, that they were The same in the end or something...
like, I guess the counterpoint is that >well it's challenging masculinity and how boys should look!< (1)their dynamic, as boy and girl, is actually not challenged or changing the status quo of what a boy and girl relationship looks like at all, (2) why do we have to give boys a win? I think we should focus less on what needs to be challenged with boys, and instead just focus on how we can make things about GIRLS and WOMEN and how HOWL was actually the first he/him femme lesbian in popular media. like it just doesn't make sense to me. this is the perfect movie to lesbify.
hope any of this made sense and none of it was extremely offensive or deeply wrong to u. also 2 clarify, I don't hate the movie, it's a deeply moving lesbian love story. TO Me.
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I just think Howl should've been a girl. and if not, the popular consensus should've been that Howl IS a girl and that he and sophie are lesbians. but idk people are straight and think that the tradhet of hmc is somehow so powerful and epic -.- tell me what is moving and epic love story about an insecure girl who does housework pining after a cocky brat hero protag? at least if HOWL was A GIRL AS WELL it'd be epic since tradhet but LESBIANOS is EPIC, MOVING, DEEPLY POWERFUL, UNBEATABLE, etc etc. like at the end when they end up with the same haircut... litcherally would've been so crazy IF it was >what if we were both girls and we ended up resembling each other at the end/start of our love story< like it's crazy then bc ... girls. but just from the lens of a typical boygirl romance, this is just a fantasy romance told from the perspective from the girl -.- which would be one thing if like um, sophie's one trait wasn't that she just Really Loved Howl [though her taking care of granny was v v impactful. To Me] ... but like It Was.
idk what I find annoying about the fan perception is that they are so keen on howl being The Ideal Boy/Man when I'm pretty sure the intent was to have him be one of those genderless boys... like TO ME, it feels very obvious that the intent of howl's character design is clearly that He's Not A Boy...which is kinda like all ghibli boy designs ig, but I think it's especiallyyyy prominent in howl, with the similarities to sophie's own design... SO IF PEOPLE JUST REALIZED... THAT HOWL IS A GIRL... which then also is so epic because when u are two girls who are the same girl...which I think the movie was also trying to get at, that they were The same in the end or something...
like, I guess the counterpoint is that >well it's challenging masculinity and how boys should look!< (1)their dynamic, as boy and girl, is actually not challenged or changing the status quo of what a boy and girl relationship looks like at all, (2) why do we have to give boys a win? I think we should focus less on what needs to be challenged with boys, and instead just focus on how we can make things about GIRLS and WOMEN and how HOWL was actually the first he/him femme lesbian in popular media. like it just doesn't make sense to me. this is the perfect movie to lesbify.
hope any of this made sense and none of it was extremely offensive or deeply wrong to u. also 2 clarify, I don't hate the movie, it's a deeply moving lesbian love story. TO Me.