My Neighbour Totoro: is it nothing but middle-class animation for snobby parents?

31st May 2023

STUDIO Ghibli’s classic continues to delight Guardian readers who ban their precious children from watching Despicable Me. But is the 1988 anime in its own way just as shit?

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This week in Mash History: The first recorded mansplain, 1338 BCE

30th May 2023

IN the modern day, women are able to call out patronising, oversimplified explanations of subjects they’re already expert on delivered by men wearing too-tight trousers.