"But she's actually 1000 years old, only looks 9"

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• sompreno@lemmy.zip ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I’ve never actually heard anyone say were attracted to a character like shinobu from monogatari. The only times this discussion has ever come up from what I know is when a character is canonically underage but drawn to look like an adult like rias from dxd.

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• Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Speaking as someone who was sexually assaulted as a minor, I would rather people rub themselves off to fictional characters than have it happen to anyone else.

  You cannot stop people from being attracted to minors. Making something illegal doesn’t magically remove feelings, nor does it magically prevent people from doing it. The threat of prison has never stopped prisoners.

  If people are attracted to fictional minors, let them be honest about it so that parents can keep children away from them. The more the attraction to fictional minors is stigmatized, the less people will openly declare it and the less likely they will seek help.

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  • dillekant@slrpnk.net ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Very sorry for what happened to you. A great line I heard once was “it’s not the child, it’s the abuse”, and that really helped me understand the problem better. I think the goal of a lot of people when hearing about CSA is to try and take children out of society as a whole (eg: don’t have them represented in media), and that’s the “solution”, but really children deserve to be in society, they deserve a say, they deserve to be taken seriously. In fact, trying to erase children as a whole is what gives abusers their power, and really it’s about the power difference which enables abuse.

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  • autriyo@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am not 100% sure if this approach would have the intended effect, but the stigma around paedophilia doesn’t help at all with actually protecting children.

    It should be in everyone’s interests to find reliable solutions to these problems. Sexual attraction isn’t something one can freely choose, or turn off at will. I imagine it must be difficult to deal with sexuality that is potentially hurtful towards unconsenting parties without any guidance.

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• Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you’re going to be a perv, the least you can do is keep that shit to yourself.

  You wouldn’t be the first person to have a freak fetish in a room full of people who all agree “Freak Fetish is bad!” that just nodded and smiled and kept their fucking mouths shut.

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  • Photonic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exactly, I don’t think people can deny or change what they’re attracted to. God knows they’ve tried that with gay men.

    But of course the big difference here is that here these people can’t ever be allowed to act on it. They need to reserve the furthest and darkest place in their mind, build walls around it like they’re building nuclear bunker and seal off all the exits. And don’t fucking tempt that shit with loli anime or other weird shit.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think people can deny or change what they’re attracted to.

      I’m not even going that deep on it. I just think policing what people are attracted to (for whatever reason) is a fool’s errand. At the same time, advertising what you’re attracted to invites public criticism.

      They need to reserve the furthest and darkest place in their mind, build walls around it like they’re building nuclear bunker and seal off all the exits.

      Not even that. They just don’t need to throw on sandwich boards and parade around anime conventions with bullhorns insisting they have some god-given right to fuck the art.

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• dillekant@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  So here’s the thing, someone who’s a thousand years old mentally would be quite intimidating, sexually, regardless of what they’re like physically. The thing about a lot of fictional “thousand year old” characters is that they still act like children, more or less.

  There was a bit in Aeon Flux (or was it Ghost in the Shell?) where some kid (>16) was hitting on her, and she was like “oh you want to have sex? Sure let’s see what you’ve got” and the kid just like shits his pants. I think they end up having sex but in the aftermath it’s clear the kid was not in control.

  So IMO you had a realistic “physically 9 but mentally 1000 year old” I think most pedos would not be into that.

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• spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can understand thinking shows with questionable content are good. Some really great shows have some straight up weird content.

  Though if you’re justifying sexualizing under aged shaped characters… just … no. There’s a reason everyone (rightfully) shat on Netflix’ Cuties, and that was even trying to call it bad.

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  • Naho_Zako@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cuties was about real human girls for actors, not fictional characters. And that’s not to say that people shouldn’t give weird anime side eye, but like these are literally two different things. One is based on morals and the other should literally send you to jail.

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  • AnonomousWolf@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I recently ran into someone who DM’d me asking to please remove all veiled accusations of them being a pedophile or any comments about the age of a 29 year old animie girl.

    This character looks like a 9 year old, based on her height alone she’d for sure not be in High School yet.

    But yea sure, she’s 29, only looks 9??

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• RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How come we almost never see the opposite. A character who looks 58 but is actually 12. Like Benjamin Button.

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Howl’s Moving Castle?

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    • RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Would you crucify me if I said I only watched two Ghibli films?

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Kes in voyager was like that. We saw her ‘old’ once and she was like 12

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think nazuna (the greyscale) one on the right is neither visually nor technically a minor. However she is actually the pedophile in this case because she is a vampire going after a literal teenage boy.

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t care what you say, Becca’s got my heart (Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners).

  I’m not crying, you’re crying.

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  • seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    edgerunners II, are you ready?

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No.

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• chungus_eater@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Mental illness

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Uh. Isn’t Rei Ayanami (2nd from the top, blue hair) visually 14 but canonically like four years old during the events of the original Evangelion series? Somehow that’s not even the most fucked up part about what happens to basically everybody throughout the story, either.

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• Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Huh. I mean the front and center one is male and 20 years old and not sexualized?

  But I agree with the whole of the post.

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