You don’t get a pass because your 13 year olds of choice are japanese and drawn characters. It’s creepy as fuck and I am judging you for it.
I don’t think it unpopular, it’s the most normie take ever. Anime and Hentai are just another medium for every fetish that exists and there’s some really weird stuff out there. Personally I don’t get those specific ones, but also don’t see it as harming anyone, and also that it doesn’t “activate” the same part of the brain.
Ooh, this is a spicy one, and definitely unpopular.
Is that thinking logically consistent? Yes. Is it pervasive? Yes. Is it sane?
Does putting a badger as my profile picture mean I want to fuck the badger? Oh god, is my manager a closet badger buggerer?!? Holy Jesus, does my elderly coworker wants to fuck her cat, and does the younger guy wants to fuck a Ferrari… What kind of twisted society do I inhabit?!?
Nope, definitely not sane.
Sorry but that kind of inference of “profile picture = thing I want to fuck” is definitely unpopular for a reason.
But… But you don’t understand! That mostly naked 12 year old looking girl who behaves like a young, spoiled immature brat is really the oldest, most powerful… Uh… Demon or something from the… Uh… Whatever hell circles.
Or was it a 12,000 year old dragon who looks like a little girl and gets stalked by a middle aged man? No wait, that was Fire Emblem.
Oh by the way; this is also why I’m uncomfortable with Midna. Yes I know what her proper appearance is supposed to be. But until then she looks like a weird little girl in oddly revealing skin tight clothes.
You are free to think weebs are wierd but it is cunterproductive to water down the term pedophile to include people who like anime with school aged characters.
I think media that is creepy, wierd or gross need to be allowed to exist. It is important to be able to explore topics that make people uncomfortabe and I think that freedom necessitates the tolerance of works whose artistic merit is unclear as long as they don’t cause direct harm.
It would probably be for the best if pedophiles and child sexual abusers weren’t considered the exact same by the general public considering one harms people and the other appears to be a mental disorder (or maybe just a sexuality), but that won’t happen for a long time if ever.
Anime doesn’t depict the sexualisation of minors as a bad thing. It normalises, relishes, and straight up comodifies it.
Plenty of it does, plenty doesn’t. And I can’t bring myself to see the issue when it’s about high school characters with other high school characters where the appeal is from a culture where high school is often seen as a nostalgic great time that people just want to reexperience through media. And average teenagers are objectively horny as fuck.
The sexual harrassment that is often part of that that is also normalized is the far bigger issue. But that happens regardless of the supposed age of the characters.
The normalization of sexualized children is harmful.
Join here if you want to fight the war:
Apologies for my initial assumption. Ecpat is a very worthy cause.
I’m not clicking that.
Stand with us now to end child sexual exploitation everywhere.
It’s safe.
Appreciated. I should have just looked the ecpat up tbh but the amount of creeps in this commrnts section really had me assume the worst.
It literally costs nothing for the author to make them 18, or 21, or 35. You just say a different number and make the school a college. They’re just pedos.
That being said i love anime despite my frustration with the pervert character, the loli, the 3000 year old vampire whos a 12 year old, the horny mom/grandma, and the useless male protagonist.
Bruh some of us like the characterization, and have arrived to liking that character because were fans of the anime.
I like Mikoto Misaka from A certain scientific railgun because she is a bad ass. If she was real I’d give her a fist bump and go about my day.
You might have missed the title of this post somehow?
The people with anime school girl avatars and/or the people who gush over how hot/sexy/fuckable the overly sexualised children are in whatever anime/manga, are who I’m calling out.
Shit like this is why I stopped watching anime. The normalized pedophilia and xenophobia is too much.
(Unrelated but another reason I stopped watching was because I couldn’t stand the squeaky falsetto female voices that Japanese culture forces women to have. I always watched a dub whenever possible.)
I hate how normalized modern anime sexualizes kids and the people who cheer it on.
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I worry about your social circle that you think this is unpopular.
I’m talking about the people I see online.
This is one thread you want to read sorted as controversial.
Wowzers…
Absolutely agree. There is a lot of hand waving and justification going on in the comments.
I don’t think kids as characters or even adults regressed into children is the problem so much for me, as the sexualization of them. And there is a definite issue with that across anime. “Fan Service” is a very real and often utilized trope. You can have all the cultural things people mentioned in an anime without panty shots and adults wanting intimacy with children.
Unfortunately since the pedo apologists defend the bad parts of this as if it’s just a “culture” difference, it’s hard to see any use of child anime characters for something like an avatar as anything but gross predilection.
I don’t necessarily think they’re pedos. I just think they need to grow the fuck up. It’s everywhere these days. You see the stickers plastered on cars. Half of Reddit (and some of Lemmy) are posts of artwork of scantily clad anime girls. Like 80% of the posts on the TopCharacterTropes sub involve half naked underage anime girls. Like these people have never watched anything other than sexualized anime. At least fantasize about actual women.
And I actually like some anime. Just not this weird sexualized girl anime that brings out the weirdos.
