Anonymous
9/10/2025, 5:23:25 PM
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Why is the magical girl genre filled with so much miserable suffering porn?
There's something distinctly sadomasochistic and unsavoury about the compulsiveness with which millennial culture churns out images of (often young) characters in states of traumatic dissociation and terror. All of this stuff suggests to me a real lack of appropriate emotional boundaries on the part of the creators of these shows- older kids television (with varying degrees of success) often dealt with 'serious issues' but there was always an implicit sense of adult stability and order, both in the world of the show, and metatextually, in the making of it.
With this stuff, however, I get the sense that the creators of these shows identify with their child characters in an inappropriate way- I get the sense that they identify with these characters in terms of their fear and vulnerability, and tend to project their own actually very adult fears and/or traumas (derived from very adult situations) into them.
There's no sense of a healthy border between the child world and the adult world- this border is supposed to be invisible from the point of view of the child audience but nonetheless present and maintained by the program- instead this audience is being exposed to and made to carry emotions and anxieties of the adult creators, who appear to conceive of their vocation primarily as a therapeutic exercise for themselves.
There's something distinctly sadomasochistic and unsavoury about the compulsiveness with which millennial culture churns out images of (often young) characters in states of traumatic dissociation and terror. All of this stuff suggests to me a real lack of appropriate emotional boundaries on the part of the creators of these shows- older kids television (with varying degrees of success) often dealt with 'serious issues' but there was always an implicit sense of adult stability and order, both in the world of the show, and metatextually, in the making of it.
With this stuff, however, I get the sense that the creators of these shows identify with their child characters in an inappropriate way- I get the sense that they identify with these characters in terms of their fear and vulnerability, and tend to project their own actually very adult fears and/or traumas (derived from very adult situations) into them.
There's no sense of a healthy border between the child world and the adult world- this border is supposed to be invisible from the point of view of the child audience but nonetheless present and maintained by the program- instead this audience is being exposed to and made to carry emotions and anxieties of the adult creators, who appear to conceive of their vocation primarily as a therapeutic exercise for themselves.
