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May. 25th, 2022 06:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedFound these two videos on YouTube the other day:
1) Calling out the simultaneous child-coding and sexualization of Kanna and Ilulu from Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buv3TA7dvdE
2) A follow-up video, but the one I came across first, talking more about cancel culture and what kinds of creators we should and should not cancel for what they do, complete with counter-arguments to other people's arguments as to why some things should be considered okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ8oXOL1Tfk
The latter video describes how things like racism, underage sexuality, and transphobia in fiction inspire things in real life, and one of them calls out My Hero Academia at one point for its overt sexualization of teenagers.
A lot of what I saw reminded me of certain exchanges I had before with Chelle, and I did consider whether or not this person might be better to debate what extents of anything wouldn't normalize pedophilia. Decided against it, though, and to draw upon that is my actual point of mentioning this, because there wouldn't really be anything to gain, and I'm already pretty sure that if something is common in real life, there shouldn't be any reason to be afraid to depict it in fiction, as long as you're not using every excuse you can think of to do so. (Like, there were a few shows featuring such things that didn't stop me a year before last November from recommending to Chelle; Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka was not one of them, even prior to that gouging scene.)
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Haganai Next came in for me yesterday, and Mom drove me down to pick that up, along with a book I mis-sought her last Sunday (turned out to be upstairs when I looked properly and then asked a librarian).
1) Calling out the simultaneous child-coding and sexualization of Kanna and Ilulu from Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buv3TA7dvdE
2) A follow-up video, but the one I came across first, talking more about cancel culture and what kinds of creators we should and should not cancel for what they do, complete with counter-arguments to other people's arguments as to why some things should be considered okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ8oXOL1Tfk
The latter video describes how things like racism, underage sexuality, and transphobia in fiction inspire things in real life, and one of them calls out My Hero Academia at one point for its overt sexualization of teenagers.
A lot of what I saw reminded me of certain exchanges I had before with Chelle, and I did consider whether or not this person might be better to debate what extents of anything wouldn't normalize pedophilia. Decided against it, though, and to draw upon that is my actual point of mentioning this, because there wouldn't really be anything to gain, and I'm already pretty sure that if something is common in real life, there shouldn't be any reason to be afraid to depict it in fiction, as long as you're not using every excuse you can think of to do so. (Like, there were a few shows featuring such things that didn't stop me a year before last November from recommending to Chelle; Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka was not one of them, even prior to that gouging scene.)
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Haganai Next came in for me yesterday, and Mom drove me down to pick that up, along with a book I mis-sought her last Sunday (turned out to be upstairs when I looked properly and then asked a librarian).