It is absolutely infuriating. Pardon my spergout for a moment, but in Japanese discourse, the term is very much still reserved for pre-pubescent girls. No one will call your average JK a loli unless she is ridiculously small for her age. Meanwhile, western discourse has slowly pushed the perceived meaning in English as being "any anime girl who even remotely looks like she is probably under 18." No. That is not what the word means. Loli is not synonymous with "girl who is a minor."
any anime girl who even remotely looks like she is probably under 18
And because anime art style exists like it does, that ends up meaning "any girl who isn't deliberately made to look in her 30s and be the "old cake" of the group."
But its the same old song and dance they always do. Cali Libs pretending their specific version of "this is when women are acceptable" is universal. It worked on convincing most of America and even other nations that the Age of Consent is 18 as the de facto.
It worked on convincing most of America and even other nations that the Age of Consent is 18 as the de facto
Don't even get me started. You'll run afoul of many even on this very board if you begin to imply that the arbitrary age of 18 as determined by the US government isn't sacrosanct.
I mean, plenty of people on this board will rant about how the government is evil and will imprison/abuse people for arbitrary and vague justifications if given the chance, but then say thought crimes and drawings are okay to give them that power though.
I never said or implied that. That comment is less so whining that the age is set to 18 and more so bashing the types of people who act super offended and start screeching the second you imply you don't consider anyone who finds a girl under 18 attractive a pedophile.
These types of people are at least somewhat tolerable when they're normies, because they are a product of their surroundings and don't think for themselves. But it gets a little exasperating over time when you hang around in circles where the common opinion is that the government is shit and that modernity is clown world BS that should be rejected. You run into a surprising number of people in those crowds who get super defensive over the arbitrary 18 number set by the US government that is completely removed from any traditional way of doing things.
It’s worse than that. You have plenty of examples where they will take characters who are explicitly stated to be over 18 and who have large breast and say they are “loli” because they look youthful and/or are short.
Well yeah, because they are "pedo coded" and dogwhistles and all their other madeup words.
Because its not meant to be anti-pedo or protect children. Its meant to demonize men being attracted to things that women don't want them to be. Just like DiCaprio being evil and a pedo because he only dates women in their 20s.
It is absolutely infuriating. Pardon my spergout for a moment, but in Japanese discourse, the term is very much still reserved for pre-pubescent girls. No one will call your average JK a loli unless she is ridiculously small for her age. Meanwhile, western discourse has slowly pushed the perceived meaning in English as being "any anime girl who even remotely looks like she is probably under 18." No. That is not what the word means. Loli is not synonymous with "girl who is a minor."
And because anime art style exists like it does, that ends up meaning "any girl who isn't deliberately made to look in her 30s and be the "old cake" of the group."
But its the same old song and dance they always do. Cali Libs pretending their specific version of "this is when women are acceptable" is universal. It worked on convincing most of America and even other nations that the Age of Consent is 18 as the de facto.
Don't even get me started. You'll run afoul of many even on this very board if you begin to imply that the arbitrary age of 18 as determined by the US government isn't sacrosanct.
I mean, plenty of people on this board will rant about how the government is evil and will imprison/abuse people for arbitrary and vague justifications if given the chance, but then say thought crimes and drawings are okay to give them that power though.
The age has to be set somewhere, we set it at 18 because that's when you finish school.
Think if we set it at 16 that'd magically make people stop shitting on loli shit? It won't.
I never said or implied that. That comment is less so whining that the age is set to 18 and more so bashing the types of people who act super offended and start screeching the second you imply you don't consider anyone who finds a girl under 18 attractive a pedophile.
These types of people are at least somewhat tolerable when they're normies, because they are a product of their surroundings and don't think for themselves. But it gets a little exasperating over time when you hang around in circles where the common opinion is that the government is shit and that modernity is clown world BS that should be rejected. You run into a surprising number of people in those crowds who get super defensive over the arbitrary 18 number set by the US government that is completely removed from any traditional way of doing things.
It’s worse than that. You have plenty of examples where they will take characters who are explicitly stated to be over 18 and who have large breast and say they are “loli” because they look youthful and/or are short.
Well yeah, because they are "pedo coded" and dogwhistles and all their other madeup words.
Because its not meant to be anti-pedo or protect children. Its meant to demonize men being attracted to things that women don't want them to be. Just like DiCaprio being evil and a pedo because he only dates women in their 20s.
I more and more started to think this is a result of the elderly getting on the internet.