The article in question is very much an explanation and defense of a viewpoint, and less about the cultural impact of lolicon and how views on it differ in the East and West.

to be fair: this was written ten years ago, applies to a widely different set of norms, level of discourse, and cultural background (literary geek versus otaku/our modern landscape of terrible geekdom) and isn’t defending borderline pedophilia.

Maybe if your characters didn’t look like teenage girls, there wouldn’t be so much of an issue.

I am familiar with Neil Gaimans response. I have seen and read it many time.

This is a far cry from Lost girls or anything in 2008. Senran Kagura is a game where you actively can fondle the breast and butt of anime woman who are underage. Your cursor even looks like a hand. Your are not just reading or experiencing it…

Alexa show me an empathy vacuum.

now if only this kinda thing made it’s way into their PvE version.

:(

“Right now my kitchen sink contains a soiled cutting board that has been languishing in there for at least 48 hours;”

As a hillbilly by birth who knows some married cousins, I find it at worst questionable, and not remotely “just as wrong.” “Reverse racism is just racism” is both a false equivalency and a well established tactic of distraction. We know that harassment of people of color on Twitch is an actual problem, so why are we…

I went into this skipping the article and just trying to guess off the pictures.... got half way through naming most of them before I realized “Hey, aren’t these all voiced by Megumi Hayashibara?” Was about to post that observation here when I noticed someone speaking about her as if she’d already been mentioned, then…

A more appropriate itasha for this young law breaker would be

It’s definitely a fairy tail fan-comic I can tell you that much. Those 2 characters are one of the more popular ships from that series.

Because he was clearly trying to groom her and got emotionally abusive. Seriously, this is not a hill worth dying on

I wish I could downvote this to infinity. This is basically an argument that because there is a supernatural or nonrealistic element in the story it means all logic and rules are basically null and void and that’s just not how storytelling and suspension of disbelief works.

I’ll say it under my real name: fuck you, that comment is spot on, and sexism against men isn’t a real fucking problem, you pissant little chode.

“Equality can feel like oppression to the privileged.”

I see what you did there. You decided that swapping something in to show the injustice is a fair judgement of how unjust it is when it really isn’t.

So who should do it? How can we systematically discriminate against men, in an industry currently dominated by men, so that they learn what it’s like?
The point of “excluding” men, is to provide women and enbies the opportunity to participate without the harassment or the descrimination. The same opportunity men get at…

Would you guys moan if the game were about tits or boobs?

Such cruelty!  Guess I’ll just waddle on home now--wouldn’t want to continue this flap.