@Africanistkemte Doesn't matter much how uncivilized they were at the start. Point is, Northern Europeans invented vaccines, automobiles, and flew to the moon.
@Antiochian_Rum Not in the "Islam is uniquely oppressive towards women" camp, but Roman women gained more rights during Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (eg. the laws of Brehon, Justinian, Visigoth, etc.). Something definitely changed by the late medieval/early modern though.
@AAAAA4A4AAAAA Did weeb-bashing ever exist in the past? Were there people from Belle Epoque France who saw all the Japonisme and thought "umm, ackshually, there was a reason why so many Japanese flocked to Brazil."
@AnimeDailyPost I've seen a lot of plebs complain about female representation in anime, but from my experience it's far worse when it comes to male characters.
They're almost always either nosebleeding perverts, physically abused by tsunderes, shotacon tropes, or generic mcs.