I was never looking for people to agree with anything. The reason I asked this was because I wanted to see what people here thought about a 16 year old character being sexualized. I was never making any statement on anything. I just wanted to see what people thought of it.Brettjr25 wrote:Does it bother anyone? Well obviously you, so I guess you answered your own question. If you aren't just looking for people to agree with you I can sincerely say, it doesn't bother me in the slightest, well besides the part where oolong was going to drug and molest her. That was kinda creepy but Oolong was initially introduced as a creepy character who we initially are led to believe kidnap young girls and take them to his possible sex dungeon and his reward was becoming a diarrhea slave.
It's ok to be bothered by it but only if you realize that people that do enjoy the humor behind it all shouldn't care that you do. I got news for you, young girls aren't going to the mall and school in short shorts with their butt cheeks sticking out and in razor thin leggings with thongs because of Bulma. The sexualization of women are a deeper societal issues whose root cause isn't manga. It's like when there was complaints against some sort of anime in Japan and the Japanese women protested the protestor holding signs saying "3D womens rights over 2D". Fighting for Bulma's rights won't change a thing at all, if anything it's just self serving and childish.
I'll admit if you were a girl that escaped that norm and went into manga and saw Bulma and thought, "oh wow what a cute blue haired smart girl" and immediately want to dot on her, it's going to be a sad and rude awakening when you find out how hella of sexualized and comic relief her character becomes. What do I say to that? Well "tough luck". There are millions of people in this world and all media shouldn't conform to one method to please one person. To say dragonball fans should never of gotten Roshi as we know and love because of someone elses hang up is wrong. If you're that person with that issue then I say put down the manga and read something else. Hell Ami or whatever her real name from Sailormoon, fits that role nicely as your make believe role model. You know, perhaps some weak guy dreamt of being a hero and then read dragon ball and found that everyone was a muscle freak. Should dragon ball be changed to make every problem solved with a math equation?
Also quick note, all you're showing is your societal norms by mentioning she's 16 and I'm not quite sure where you hail from since age of consent is about 15+ in a lot of places including some in US where it's 16 in some states and majority is at 17 with few set to 18. I also think it's kinda silly how you mention his age and point out how he's like OMG 100s, and?? You're point is? Are you saying it would be okay if Roshi was 28? That's immature. Do you even know why you feel that way? It's a shame because I know it first hand and from the other way around. People care about age difference only because of what they personally feel is visually appealing to them not the person in the relationship but what they feel is disgusting. Trust me if you were 10 years older than someone (and I was ) and dated someone but where attractive and looked as what people decide is visually pleasing and "young" no one, not her mom dad brother or sister would give a damn. But you know Roshi is bald and have a beard, him looking at her privates is look totalling disgusting but it would be like totally legit cool if Yamcha did it, am I right?
Also, when did I ever suggest that Roshi’s actions would be alright if he were younger? That’s a strawman. I brought up Roshi’s age because I wanted to see what people thought about having a grown man be sexually attracted to a 16 year old girl for laughs.