Gender bending is a common fetish among anime nerds. And trannies are AGP fetishists. The original show was like crack to them. The show isn't trying to normalize cross dressing, but it inspires a lot of fetish fantasy.
Fetish fantasy isn't bad so long as it REMAINS a fantasy. I've read plenty of fucked up shit especially in the revenge category but no intentions of committing those acts in reality.
The problem the West is particularly vulnerable to is that the fantasy/reality divide in the minds of many is not a strong barrier.
Autistic people have a skewed perception of their fantasy being attainable. Too often they take their fetish too far. The links between autism and AGP and transexuals are strong but illegal to discuss outside small niches like this place.
I remember the stereotype of cons being filled up with fat middle-aged men dressing up like Sailor Moon.
I was in to anime for a period when Kenshin, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Love Hina, etc. were very popular. I knew people that were into Ranma, but I never followed it. Anime was then a (like D&D) often a refuge for people who didn't fit into the mainstream.
Gender bending is a common fetish among anime nerds. And trannies are AGP fetishists. The original show was like crack to them. The show isn't trying to normalize cross dressing, but it inspires a lot of fetish fantasy.
Fetish fantasy isn't bad so long as it REMAINS a fantasy. I've read plenty of fucked up shit especially in the revenge category but no intentions of committing those acts in reality.
The problem the West is particularly vulnerable to is that the fantasy/reality divide in the minds of many is not a strong barrier.
Autistic people have a skewed perception of their fantasy being attainable. Too often they take their fetish too far. The links between autism and AGP and transexuals are strong but illegal to discuss outside small niches like this place.
It never does. Coomers inevitably go so sick in the head they either rope or try to make their fantasy real.
Yeah, this is why proglodytes can't wrap their pea brains around the concept that depiction is not endorsement.
I'm an anime nerd of that generation and we really didn't have a fetish for gender bending. There were some who did but majority really didn't.
Otoh a lot of males of that generation also liked sailor moon
I remember the stereotype of cons being filled up with fat middle-aged men dressing up like Sailor Moon.
I was in to anime for a period when Kenshin, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Love Hina, etc. were very popular. I knew people that were into Ranma, but I never followed it. Anime was then a (like D&D) often a refuge for people who didn't fit into the mainstream.
I don't think it was ever filled but there were definitely some ppl who did that
I will never apologize for enjoying Meatball Head as part of my contingent of Saturday morning cartoons.