I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this, but I figured I'd post it here anyways (TL;DR at the end). Recently, I re-read Tomie (A manga by Junji Ito), and looked at some of the online discussion surrounding it. It's crazy how Feminism has basically ruined/tainted so many interperations of media. I was looking through Youtube Videos/Reddit Posts, and so many of the comments (As well as the videos/posts themselves), were supporting Tomie, and interpreting the story from a Feminist lens, even tho imo, that completly misses the point of the story. The story isn't some magnifcaent groundbreaking story about Feminism. Rather, it's about a girl, who though a victim in her 1st chapter (imo), becomes a completly evil monster in the subsequent ones. She isn't meant to be a defended, well-liked, or sympathetic, in fact, she's meant to be the complete opposite, an evil monster who brainwashes men through her supernatural powers, causing them to become obssessed with and eventually kill her. A lot of people pretend like she's this victim who's meant to be sympathetic and a huge cultural commentary about Feminism, and how women are often victims of mens lusts and how men kill them for no reason, even though I don't think that's the case for 99% of reasonable men in today's society. What infuriates me the most about it, is that these people who defend Tomie, often also justify Tomie's actions in 'Boy' saying that it represents a cycle of abuse, even though it clearly is just an evil monster attempting to molest a boy, and causing him to eventually go insane and die due to that, imo at least (Even though I acknowledge there can obv be diff interpretations of this chapter/the whole story). Also, a lot these feminist Tomie defenders seem to think that what the men are doing is completly natural, and there's no supernatural element involved at all, even though the story at least heavily implies, if not explicitly states, this isn't the men's own faults. They're not 'naturally' doing this cuz of their lust, they're doing it cuz of Tomie's supernatural powers, causing them to become obssessed with her, and eventually go insane in trying to kill her. In fact, the author himself (Junji Ito) even said that the intention of Tomie wasn't as some kind of representation of women victims of violence through a Feminist lens. I forgot exactly where he said this, and I completly admit, I could be wrong about this, but I believe the intention from him was more to show that even though a female may be externally beautiful, she might be internally ugly (just like Tomie), which I honestly believe is quite true (obviously not always, & there r exceptions, but it def does happen a lot from my experience).

TL;DR: Imo, feminists who think Tomie is the victim in this story, completly miss the point, and if anything, I think the men r the true victims of the story, at least in 'Boy'.