This was just something that came to mind when I was reading over those posts (which I do plan on making something else later, as some other things came to mind that I wanna address later), but to keep to the title of the post, I do honestly feel like we're just throwing the word loli at anyone under the age of 18 in an anime when that has never been the case.
Kanna Kamui, from Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, is a loli.
Anya Forger, from SPY X FAMILY, is a loli.
Eri, from My Hero Academia, is a loli.
Genshin Impact specifically has a 'short female' model, which nine playable characters have, and eight of them would be lolis, using the actual definition pre-'New Right' era (Diona, Kachina, Klee, Nahida, Qiqi, Sayu, Sigewinne and Yaoyao).
Why am I going through these examples? Mostly because I want to show people what characters fit under the classical definition used before the past few years of the anti-anime movement trying to use 'language creep' to muddle the definition.
I don't care which side of the argument you're on, I just wish that people would at the very least use the actual definitions of words because saying that Satsuki Kiryuin, Ryuko Matoi, Marin Kitagawa, among many other 'under 18 but visibly not like the kids I mentioned above' characters are lolis is rather bullshit and only serves to work against the right.
Just my two cents on the topic, but overall, whether or not things become legal or illegal, I am hoping that people are at least able to actually work with the true definitions of words rather than abusing language to get whatever they want. Attempts to ban Eastern media isn't going to make people suddenly love current Western media, it's going to make people further check out of society.
It's language creep mixed with poisoning the well as they want loli to be DIRECTLY linked with 'under 18', when loli only refers to a BODY TYPE.
Redman gave some examples but my best example to demonstrate this is Rory Mercury from GATE. She has a petite body, but does she act like she's a kid, even a young teenager? No, she's more mature than MOST of the cast, to the point she schools a politician in Japan who thought she was a kid on appearance till it turned out she's 990 years old.
There is a nuance of having a young looking body but not ACTING like a kid, probably linked to how a lot of 30 year old Asian women to Westerners can easily pass as schoolgirls. Loli JUST refers to a body type like curvy or muscular. Implying that it's also referring to age is more a incitement on how in the West you have those that look older but still act like children so the mirror opposite of what they criticise.
God, that show was great. A shame it only had the one season.
That happens to a lot of anime I love, like Heavy Object or Amagi Brilliant Park...
As for the second paragraph? Former pro wrestler Marko Stunt said he once got carded at a Wendy's drive-thru because no one believed he was old enough to drive.
That's why I was so infuriated when Shinji Aoba set Kyoto Animation ablaze.
One of the 36 killed was the director of Amagi Brilliant Park.