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leafy sea dragon
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If you want it to stay niche, that's perfectly fine with me. But then you have people who wonder why anime got a surge of mainstream popularity in the 90's and never again or complain about financial difficulties these companies have when the answer is just that obvious. Anime is niche in Japan too though, and for similar reasons it's niche elsewhere. But my original point, which I guess got lost (and I admit I did that accidentally), is that of all the hobbies I have, anime and manga are the only ones that I cannot discuss freely with non-fans.
The ones I have actually encountered rarely do, at least until they reach college, and even then, the ones I met there tend to continue to be ultra-submissive, quiet, and keep strictly to themselves. When you're raised in an environment like that, your parents and your studying kind of become all you know. The traits you're listing are of those who are loud, or at least behave loudly, and attract attention. Those would be the ones you see a lot and so you could perceive them as being more numerous than they actually are. It's a lot like those people who blast gangsta rap out of their cars: There aren't really that many, but you'll know one is around every time you're near one and they can seem like they're everywhere. Most teenage girls I notice in public are just wearing T-shirts and long pants; the ones with provocative clothing are the ones who stand out. The majority of teenagers will try drinking and a smaller but significant amount will try smoking pot but only out of curiosity and won't make habits of them. While the Internet HAS pretty much become the alpha and omega to most teenagers, they're used for a variety of different purposes and will be fine-tuned to meet their needs. And I stopped hearing about the Kardashians outside of supermarket tabloids for a few years now. (Now, it's all about Katy Perry.) And these are four different and unrelated traits; a teenager can embody all four of them, or they can embody none of them.
According to the Cracked article, the other part of the problem is that the United States government (and its culture) does not recognize pedophilia as a mental illness, but as some sort of spiritual evil that lurks within people, and that those with this evil must repress it completely or be punished for it. It is a lot like past attitudes towards homosexuality. Which provides a ray of hope, considering that attitudes have progressed greatly towards tolerance of homosexuality. (Of course, a key difference here is that sexually advancing onto children is quite harmful whereas sexually advancing onto an adult of the same sex is not, at least as long as the other person consents.) Now I'm thinking about how a lot of harlequin romances are rape fantasies, and American society knows it doesn't represent reality and isn't reading material for rapists. |
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Kikaioh
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You think it's superior how Japan allows for Junior Idol meet-and-greets where adult male strangers can pay to "play" with little girls? Also regarding that Cracked article, they didn't state that pedophila is an "orientation", all they explained was that the brain matter of adult pedophiles had differences from non-pedophiles in ways that suggest a possible miswiring of triggers for sexual arousal. That doesn't necessarily mean that pedophilia is the result of inherent genetic predisposition, and to my knowledge The American Psychiatric Association currently classifies it as a mental disorder (not an orientation) due to evidence pointing to pedophilia being an emerging identification caused by social factors prior to and during puberty (if it were a sexual orientation, you would think women would account for more of a substantial makeup of the demographic). Unless some other science points otherwise, afaik it isn't yet seen as a sexual orientation. |
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TheFullmetalOne
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A bit of a dated saying, but I agree. |
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StarfighterPegasus
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I have to say Japan does have a problem, and America does not have the right to be telling them how to live.
Mangagamer got into this hot seat four or 6 years ago about a loli sex scene. Their response was shocking. "We understand and the ultimate responsibility lies with the consumer. Meaning just like a gun it is not the gun shop who is liable its the gun owner the gun can't fire itself, if your dumb enough to lead a loaded, unlocked rifle out in the open when your kids come home from school it falls unto your shoulders when someone gets shot. Same applies to Loli and Shotacon if you can't keep that book in a locked trunk or up high out of a child's reach its your fault not the publishers. we are 18+ we are old enough to read Child's time, we are old enough to see Deadpool we are old enough to play GTA5, yet we are treated like children. |
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Mohawk52
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Ahem @US State Department:
People who live in glass houses, should not be throwing stones at their neighbours from inside their own house. |
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Panzer Vor
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That's rich, considering that the United Kingdom shoulders just as much responsibility for the current state of the world as the United States. You shouldn't be throwing stones at the glass house on the other side of the Atlantic from inside your own glass house, limey.
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Blanchimont
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What's the context here? The game in question? |
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Mohawk52
Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
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