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.
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.
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.