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by Ruby Allen, ATLANTA, GA – The Anime weekend convention provides
folks with the opportunity to geek out for a few days a year – mostly by becoming
characters in their favorite television cartoons and series, as well as movies.
I went to Anime last fall for the first time recently and there were three girls dressed
up like characters from CATS (the
Broadway musical) and another group dressed up like the human gang from TV
cartoon Scooby-Doo. I was disappointed that I didn’t see Scooby
himself, real dog or human imitation. Nevertheless, I felt right at home even
though I didn’t know anyone because I was surrounded by people playing characters
from the shows I love.
It
wasn’t odd for normal gender roles to be broken. For example, someone was
dressed up and playing Thorin Oakenshield from The Hobbit. Thorin is a male character but a woman was behind this
exceptional costume. I loved how this was just a normal thing at Anime. I also
ran into three women and three men dressed as The Powerpuff Girls along with a woman dressed up as Powerpuff’s famed Professor Oak. Just think if these men and women were dressed up in
these opposite gender outfits in their real everyday worlds of work and college.
People would give them quizzical looks, or perhaps even get a quick photo on
their cell phone to upload to places like Facebook or Twitter for a laugh. I think Geeking out and ignoring normative
gender roles for a day or two is great fun.
Ruby Allen is a student at Georgia
College and State University majoring in Psychology. She can be contacted at
ruby.allen@bobcats.gcsu.edu.
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