Me: Not an anime fan.
Me reading this headline: "I guess that's a good thing to START doing.....kinda weird that wasn't the default for decades now......
Then I remembered how there's always the trope of a little 5 year old girl, who's just doing little kid things, but then OH NO! LETS SEXUALIZE HER, AND CLAIM SHE'S AN ANCIENT SPIRIT AND IS ACTUALLY 100 YEARS OLD!!!
And I'm just like "Yeaaahhhhh, no. If I'm not going to get aroused by humans dressing up in furry costumes because it's too close to the idea of fucking an animal, then I'm also not going to be ok with sexualizing the image of a child, regardless of how old her character is. It's still very much presenting the image of a child, and sexualizing that image.
So that brought me down a wide range of reactions I didn't know I had. From indifference, all the way to outrage, all from a media form that I haven't thought about in 20 years. So now I'm just mad that this wasn't always the case. Like, yeah, it's a good step in the right direction in 2026, but it's kinda like in 1945 Germany saying "Hey, we're not going to be nazis anymore...."
Great! Where was this mentality all along?
Well well well.....seems to me I just found my new wife!
........uh, the murderous one. Not the dead one. I just realized that might have been confusing. Let's live frisky and risky!