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.

  • OryxAndCake@slrpnk.netOP
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    10 days ago

    So why is this not called out more?

    If you all call Trump and Epstein pedos for fucking teenage girls, what makes your anime school girl yuri obsessions not pedo shit?

    • Peridot largely because there’s a difference between seeming creepy and being so.

      It isn’t like your average anime waifu loving fanfreak started out obsessed in their thirties. While it’s true that anime isn’t just for kids, it is where most people first encounter it. Some folks just stay fans rather than developing other interests that replace it as a primary hobby.

      It changes the landscape. There’s a massive difference between someone that’s obsessed with an anime teenager and someone that’s actively trying to fuck real teenagers. Hell, there’s a difference between that and pedophilia, but that’s a semantic quibble, not substantial thing.

      It’s like the difference between fantasy and reality.

      That being said it is called out to some degree or another. Not so much using an avatar, but the people that get obsessed with some thousand year old demon that just happens to look five catch hell a good bit. Even online, but most definitely in meatspace

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      One is real.

      (I don’t get the anime shit either, but there’s quite a difference to real rape, international sex trafficing, etc and fucking cartoons)

      Someone made a post below about one taking a liking to the stuff at an appropriate age… Never reassessing that one is 40 and still on about [insert trope]… Which is very valid.

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        Yeah and do racism and misogyny next! Because everybody knows that a normal media diet full of race and gender based violence has absolutely no effect on the people who consume it, right?

        And obviously any racist and/or misogynistic social behaviours from fans cannot be attributed as influenced or normalised by the media they consume, I mean clearly society just is racist and misogynistic anyway so that can’t be it, that’s just normal. Right?

        We should totally defend all the racism and misogyny in our media and feel attacked if anyone points out that the media we like makes us look like racist misogynists!

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          I looked at your comment history and determined that it really not worth interacting with you. Goodbye

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      i guess this is the one place where people in power actually get more shit. although you are comparing actual harm to content consumption, i do support adding one more thing onto the average guy judgement pile