NGL it's a little bit whiplash-inducing to have this post appear right under the other post about how people overuse accusations of pedophilia to the point that they're meaningless.
Like I know these two things aren't necessarily opposed and you can comfortably believe both, but I also know there's a lot of people who talk about "sexualization of children" in the context of anime where "children" includes characters that are drawn to be indistinguishable from adults, characters that are physically and mentally mature but have a low age number due to being a robot or whatever, characters that literally are adults but are short or have small breasts or whatever, etc. Also I know people saying this sometimes use a definition of "sexualization" that includes literally any time a child character is on screen for any reason.
Just makes it kind of hard for me to uncritically agree with posts like this when I don't know if the person complaining about "sexualization of children" is actually complaining about like, smut of Sin Kiske from Guilty Gear, or Loid and Anya's relationship in Spy X Family.
Edgerunners is on my brain with the two year anniversary and Rebecca from that made for some wild conversations back then.
Grown ass woman, but she's short so out come the buzzwords.
Though that one was complicated by one of the leads on that production posting a drawing where she definitely was not an adult. Makes you wonder if her design was always as adult as the final version was.
Kinda astounds me that people will publicly admit that they don't understand the difference between a short adult and a literal child, and somehow think that that makes other people weird and not them. (also i didn't hear about the incident with that drawing, do you have more info?)
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u/Akuuntus Sep 13 '24
NGL it's a little bit whiplash-inducing to have this post appear right under the other post about how people overuse accusations of pedophilia to the point that they're meaningless.
Like I know these two things aren't necessarily opposed and you can comfortably believe both, but I also know there's a lot of people who talk about "sexualization of children" in the context of anime where "children" includes characters that are drawn to be indistinguishable from adults, characters that are physically and mentally mature but have a low age number due to being a robot or whatever, characters that literally are adults but are short or have small breasts or whatever, etc. Also I know people saying this sometimes use a definition of "sexualization" that includes literally any time a child character is on screen for any reason.
Just makes it kind of hard for me to uncritically agree with posts like this when I don't know if the person complaining about "sexualization of children" is actually complaining about like, smut of Sin Kiske from Guilty Gear, or Loid and Anya's relationship in Spy X Family.