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.
They've studied it a lot and generally most men will call women around 14-18 the most attractive when there aren't any visible signs of their age, meaning its as close to "without judgement, objective" as we can get. That's just how our brains are wired, they are at their youngest, healthiest and capable of bearing young.
That doesn't mean its okay for him to act on that, because there is a lot more to society and women than purely breeding them like livestock. They are still young, stupid and not really mentally capable of raising those young very well, as well as the litany of grooming power grown men can abuse over them. Those things used to be balanced by fathers having to give their daughters and multiple generations in home to help teach them while providing support, but neither of those are true anymore in the slightest so we need to compensate for it one way or another.
I don't mean to really defend women, but people treat the "age of consent" as a magical thing about physical development and attraction, when that's probably the least important part of the equation in why its important to maintain to some degree.
And its also why there are three fucking different categories of philia used to denote attraction to those under 18~, with pedophilia being the one with literally zero basis beyond a broken brain and an evil heart.