That's nice for you, but you're not the only person using the archive, and others have indeed asked that the categories be kept together. I haven't participated in these discussions to date, but if I had, as a writer I would be saying that it would indeed be a huge headache for me if the archive decided to separate the categories. I came into fandom through a writing and reading culture that often takes a bricolage approach to anime and manga canons, and if the archive separated the two I would have no clue where to archive anything.
Obviously, there's no reason standing alone why my preferences and ideas of what's functional should outweigh yours, or vice versa. But it should be equally obvious that your preferences aren't automatically representative of all anime or manga fans, and that the fact that the archive resolved the conflict in a way you personally dislike doesn't mean it's giving "us" lip service about caring about non-Western fandoms. "I don't like this" doesn't mean "Help, help, I'm being oppressed."
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Phoebe_Zeitgeist Wed 18 Sep 2013 11:42PM UTC
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