01-03-2014, 09:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-03-2014, 09:47 PM by crazysam23.)
(01-03-2014, 09:37 PM)Grungie Wrote: The internet really blows the weird shit from Japan out of proportion. They think all the weird shit we see is all cultural norms, and it doesn't help when the otakus like Inst and such think that waifus and lolicon are socially acceptable in Japan.That's understandable, I guess. I mean...it seems to be mostly Westerners who use those terms as "good", and us Westerners don't have the cultural understanding to get that those terms aren't necessarily good in Japan. Also, a lot of it is probably guys like Inst deciding they were going to say "Fuck you" to all the people who call them pedophiles, as if embracing something proudly suddenly makes it ok. (Just ask the pre-Civil Rights racists how it was "ok" to degrade anyone who wasn't White; just saying. And I'm not comparing otakus and racists, btw. It's just a ridiculous example, to make a point.)
Them being proud to say they like lolicon is funny for me, because if they say that in Japan, they're literally calling themselves pedophiles, but somehow the anime community outside of Japan just thinks you think anime little girls are cute.