I was reading a pretty-okay article about doujin circles from 1996 and the writer said the cons were filled with “virginal girls.” Why oh why do you need to weigh in on their sex lives when saying young girls write their own manga? I also hate the absolutely disgusting look so many people in america take with Japanese school girls. Not saying Japan is totally innocent here, but the whole “yeah all Japanese school girls are super-sexualised. I know because every piece of Japanese culture I look at contains sexualized children” and never realise that this is a statement on their own failure.
In the end, weebs perspective on anime cannot be trusted, as they overlook or actively exacerbate the flaws and are part of the problem, but the non-anime watching public, or even the people who have watched a couple but aren’t really into it, cannot be trusted, as they do not understand the full depth and parameters of what anime is and can be, and often hold racist stereotypes about Japan in the heart of their argument. So it follows that the only based people involved in this whole debacle are Hirohiko Araki and Usada Pekora.
joking aside, I’ll take a look at the articles, thanks for the sources. I really wish everyone involved in the whole discussion of anime in the west weren’t so disgusting in most of the views they profess.
