Cursed Lemon wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 3:53 pmJust gotta make sure people in the eye-are-ells still do it for you, though.
Dr. Casey wrote: Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:58 pmI don't think there's anything pathological or problematic at all unless you're uninterested in real life people.
Pretty much this.
Finding a cartoon drawing of a woman sexually attractive is just... whatever. Who cares? Most of us have all been "guilty" of that (for lack of a better word) at one time or other in life.
Its really only an issue, at least on just a raw personal/psychological/emotional level, if you're ONLY or predominantly attracted to cartoon drawings at the expense of real life, flesh and blood human beings. That's generally not particularly mentally or emotionally healthy when its taken to that much of an extreme. Its the kind of thing that's often seen with heavily withdrawn individuals who are starved of real interpersonal relationships and suffering extreme loneliness.
Or for that matter if most/all of the cartoon characters that you're sexually into are rendered as small children. That's also probably a clear sign that not all is well under the hood on a whole OTHER (and much, MUCH more serious) level.
Sadly though, anime fandom is pretty rife with both of these problems. Doesn't mean that anywhere near EVERYONE who's into anime has this kind of thing going on obviously: but at this point, its pretty much impossible to deny the correlation between extreme socially withdrawn isolation and emotional problems with connecting with other human beings (be it sexually, romantically, platonically, or otherwise), and that this is something that's been increasingly seen more and more within fandoms like that of anime for much of the past few decades now, and that it contributes an AWFUL lot to much of the toxicity within those fandoms.
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Kunzait's Wuxia Thread
Journey to the West, chapter 26 wrote:The strong man will meet someone stronger still:
Come to naught at last he surely will!
Zephyr wrote:And that's to say nothing of how pretty much impossible it is to capture what made the original run of the series so great. I'm in the generation of fans that started with Toonami, so I totally empathize with the feeling of having "missed the party", experiencing disappointment, and wanting to experience it myself. But I can't, that's how life is. Time is a bitch. The party is over. Kageyama, Kikuchi, and Maeda are off the sauce now; Yanami almost OD'd; Yamamoto got arrested; Toriyama's not going to light trash cans on fire and hang from the chandelier anymore. We can't get the band back together, and even if we could, everyone's either old, in poor health, or calmed way the fuck down. Best we're going to get, and are getting, is a party that's almost entirely devoid of the magic that made the original one so awesome that we even want more.
Kamiccolo9 wrote:It grinds my gears that people get "outraged" over any of this stuff. It's a fucking cartoon. If you are that determined to be angry about something, get off the internet and make a stand for something that actually matters.
Rocketman wrote:"Shonen" basically means "stupid sentimental shit" anyway, so it's ok to be anti-shonen.
