CNN overreacting and claiming Manga is child porn

[BiscuitTrouser]

I don't know what more I can say to help you see my perspective. But there's literally no difference between your argument and the "violent video games cause violent people" argument, just because the former includes sexual arousal as a factor. It's still all entertainment. Silly, unrealistic entertainment. I went to my Year 13 prom two days ago, and there were 17- and 18-year-old girls there wearing prom dresses a good deal shorter than what that Virginia girl was wearing, and with more cleavage too. No male teachers said anything about it. Even my male best friend, who I'd invited along because he'd left 2 years ago, only ever mentioned once how girls to whom he never paid much attention had "suddenly gotten attractive". To which I replied, "Well, they matured. Puberty's a funny thing."

I mean, what, should someone feel ashamed for finding a sexually mature female...sexually attractive? No-one's really fucking parading around an anatomically correct nine-year-old on billboards and magazines saying, "Oh, look at how sassy and sexy she is! Look at her dress, look at her legs, look at those barely-formed lumps on her chest!" You're just making a problem bigger than it actually is.

I'm from the UK also. To be honest i find what youre writing convincing, its far more likely having read that to me that this issue is just a tertiary symptom of sexism in society in terms of role models and such than it is from child sexualisation. I find it hard to deny that marking women as something to be sexualised early in their development is probably negative for them over all. I think that entertainment, when consistently follows sociatal trends, reinforces those trends. We learn from our media. But this is niche and i appreciate that its probably not as over arching as i originally thought.

Off topic: The internet has really not given me the tools to express agreement and mind changing without sounding like an idiot.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

I don't know what more I can say to help you see my perspective. But there's literally no difference between your argument and the "violent video games cause violent people" argument, just because the former includes sexual arousal as a factor. It's still all entertainment. Silly, unrealistic entertainment. I went to my Year 13 prom two days ago, and there were 17- and 18-year-old girls there wearing prom dresses a good deal shorter than what that Virginia girl was wearing, and with more cleavage too. No male teachers said anything about it. Even my male best friend, who I'd invited along because he'd left 2 years ago, only ever mentioned once how girls to whom he never paid much attention had "suddenly gotten attractive". To which I replied, "Well, they matured. Puberty's a funny thing."

I mean, what, should someone feel ashamed for finding a sexually mature female...sexually attractive? No-one's really fucking parading around an anatomically correct nine-year-old on billboards and magazines saying, "Oh, look at how sassy and sexy she is! Look at her dress, look at her legs, look at those barely-formed lumps on her chest!" You're just making a problem bigger than it actually is.

I'm from the UK also. To be honest i find what youre writing convincing, its far more likely having read that to me that this issue is just a tertiary symptom of sexism in society in terms of role models and such than it is from child sexualisation. I find it hard to deny that marking women as something to be sexualised early in their development is probably negative for them over all. I think that entertainment, when consistently follows sociatal trends, reinforces those trends. We learn from our media. But this is niche and i appreciate that its probably not as over arching as i originally thought.

Indeed. I agree with you on some points, but simply have a different perspective.