Hey buddy, these you by chance?

Go pick another fight.

I don't know what to tell ya man, I literally highlighted why I like the character and why I use them as a profile pic, and you're actively choosing to ignore that fact in order to paint me as something I'm not.

End of the day, I explained my rationale, you're rejecting it attempting to paint me as something I'm actively showcasing I'm not, and thereby you're the person putting a sexual connotation here while trying to project that narrative onto me.

Great, blatant transphobia, trying to subtly push in the "trans people groom children" trope.

Not going to give you the time. Goodbye.

I responded to that here already.

TL;DR: in deep fakes there's still a real, verifiable harm, as it can be used by abusers and stalkers to harass people in a massive scale, plus it's trained with real people media, including real children, including actual children being abused (real children).

Yep

Not everything is about you. You are not the only one with an anime school girl avatar on the fediverse.

I get that you have terrible issues that it was wrong of me to dismiss as your time of 'big sad' from which you recovered, and that my choice of words really hurt your feelings. I am sorry.

This post though was not about you. I am not interested in any sort of interaction or connection with you and was not inspired or motivated by you to make this post.

That you happen to also have an anime school girl avatar is happenstance.

and I rarely see people excusing it outside of active degenerate communities where these specific people congregate.

like, I'm not gonna pretend these people don't exist, but you have no idea how frustrating it is getting lumped in with these disgusting people because they, like most westerners, look at something fundamentally non-sexual and then sexualize the fuck out of it.

As for CP2077, I'm more concerned how it does things like glorify rape fantasies. That whole franchise is about showing the worst of what humanity has to offer. So I kind of write off everything in there as "yeah, it's supposed to be fucked up and gross"

p.s. literally just had to respond to someone else in this comment section who said I was making a bad faith argument because "30% of anime is pedo shit" so there are definitely a big group of people out there saying it's the rule.

lol ok buddy, 30%? How many have you watched vs being shown shit by people like you pushing a specific narrative about it?

Do I need to run down the Top 50 anime of all time for you, so you can do some actual math instead of posting ignorance?

Psychopathy is characterized by impaired empathy and resistance to external influence, pedophilia is not. It is a common perception that pedophilia just turns a person into an animal preying on children, but it has nothing to do with scientific consensus on the matter.

Biologically, pedophilia is no different than any other sexuality. You wouldn't fuck a drunk woman in the club, no matter how hot she is, because you know in this condition she's incapable of giving valid conscious consent. Similarly, most pedophiles would not fuck kids because they know children in any condition cannot give it, either.

Association of pedophilia and preying on children is not only wrong, but also harmful. It contributes to stigmatization of pedophilia, and thereby makes it harder for people with pedophilic disorder (i.e. those particular pedophiles who are at risk of abusing a child, or experiencing mental health issues and distress due to pedophilia) to seek professional help, because they are afraid to be outed to their community. Left untreated, pedophilic disorder in particular can lead to child sexual abuse, suicide, substance abuse, and a plethora of other negative consequences. On a personal note, this is the primary reason I advocate for all of this - academic literature suggests that increased understanding of pedophilia in society may help reduce the incidence of child sexual abuse, not increase it. This is crucial to understand if we want to actually protect children instead of catering to political interests framed as such.

(Pedophilic disorder is a clinical term you'll find in ICD-11 globally, and in various national systems like DSM-V. It is a current consensus that pedophilia itself is not a disorder, but a variation of human sexuality, so current editions of medical classifications do not include pedophilia itself)

And yes, most psychopaths are, in fact, not serial killers, either. But the effect of stigmatization there is significantly lower, because psychopaths are typically less sensitive to it and less inclined to seek help by themselves in the first place. Still, if we want to develop as a society, we need to resort to evidence-based policies and perceptions around this matter as well.

I have to ask how this is an unpopular take? Like even in online spaces, I see people with anime PFPs getting a lot of shit and anti-lolicon sentiment is on the rise, thankfully.

In what space would this take be unpopular in any way?

yes, for real.

it's not everyday or anything, but lots of insecure weirdos on the internet feel personally attacked when you don't like what they like. and people in real life.

I've had people try to fight me in bars in the past for not wanting to talk about sports or being interested in their sports team.

It's fine for you to not enjoy things. Why is it that other people shouldn't be able to enjoy them?

I like to mountain bike. You might think it's miserable and awful and dangerous. Should I not mountain bike because of your feelings about it?

A lot of people enjoy shit I find disgusting myself, but I am under no delusion that it my discomfort with it doesn't mean other people enjoy it and it brings meaning and joy to their lives. Clubbing, for instance.

Lol duh. I'm not implying that drawings can become living flesh and Bone beings. I'm stating that when someone makes an extraordinary effort to include sexualized images of young girls in their life and display them for the public, it crosses a pretty obvious line of decency.

Yeah, it may be indecent for you, not for other people.

Also, "decency" is NOT (and should NEVER be) a valid moral or ethical parameter, as it's something completely subjective and arbitrary. The only objective thing we can measure is damage, and that kind of art doesn't damage anyone, so just because you don't like it or you find it gross doesn't mean is bad, it is even good because is a way for helping people who struggle with pedophilia (that, remember, is NOT the same as pederasty [pedophilia is just attraction, pederasty is actually abusing of children, and most pedophiles aren't pederasts]) to cope with and liberate their impulses and tension in a harmless, safe and controlled manner.

Sorry fam I guess we're just not going to agree. I don't hate you, but according to these children, sexualized images of kids does real harm. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckz65jg4gqzlo

These are just feelings, not fucking real harm