If It Is Fine With My Blood - Vol. 1 Ch. 5 - I must Grow up Soon

[MangaDex]

 

[rpapo]

And another character appears. He was hinted about earlier, with some misgivings...

Really got to watch out here. Almost too many complications for such a short series.

 

[koikun]

a pedo calling someone else a pedo, that's rich

 

[Jgold101]

The straight shota-con vs the straight Loli-con

 

[Wralth]

LMAO

 

[Tamerlane]

He's into traps now

Doubt it's a big transition (no pun intended) to be into flat chested tiny girls and then being into traps

 

[Darkkusu]

Oh, I thought this was abandoned lol
Naisu naisu

 

[Patopeye]

wut ._.XD

 

[hyenagames]

He fell for the Trap

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

Complications, whatever. When do we get to see horrible things happen to those bullying little creeps?

 

[salanates]

Based?

 

[rpapo]

@Purplelibraryguy - Elementary school bullies: I personally don't remember any such problems when I was in elementary school (at first in Germany, then in the USA, 1960s), but not long after my daughter started attending elementary school (1991?) I got some disturbing reports from my wife, who would walk to the school every day to meet our daughter and bring her home. It seems a couple of the older boys (perhaps 9, 10 years old) had decided that my wife would be a good target for them. Perhaps because she is relatively short, but probably because she is visibly of foreign extraction (Peru). Anyway, they were harassing her in some way. After a couple days of hearing these reports, I decided to do something. I came home from work early and followed my wife to the school at a distance. She knew I was there, but I didn't want to scare off the bullies right away. Once we got there, I held back and watched. Sure enough, there they came. I walked right up behind them, put my hands on their shoulders, and in a menacing tone said something like "You sure must feel like real men, picking on a mother like that, eh?" They fled and never bothered her again.

I remain convinced that behavior like theirs comes from the home. Especially if it starts that young.

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

@rpapo Well, some comes from the home no doubt, but school kids have their own social dynamic going. It is possible for schools to guide that dynamic away from bullying if they start early, but most have no idea how and end up instead miserably failing to stop it after it's well and truly taken hold.
Personally, I was a shrimp, bookish, quiet and glasses-wearing. I was bullied relentlessly in elementary school, frequently chased around the schoolyard by little gangs and beaten up if caught. And of course tons of taunting and insults, but I mostly gave as good as I got there. And frankly, the kids giving me a hard time were having plenty of fun doing it; they were young, but they had plenty of agency of their own and they were getting their sadistic little jollies based on their own personal instincts. Some were mostly going along with the group, but it's not like they didn't have that side to them--they were accessing their worst side because that's what everyone was doing, and might have acted better if led a different direction, but that side was there for them to find.
I have little patience with the notion that it's all the parents' fault when kids act like vicious little creeps. That's one influence among many, probably smaller than peer group interactions, and personal character is a significant influence as well--kids are not tabula rasa even from very young, they bring their own personal stuff to the party.

 

[rpapo]

@Purplelibraryguy - I don't know why I escaped all that in elementary school. I certainly received plenty in middle school, and was entirely unprepared for it when it came.

Agreed, though, that some element of it all comes from the child's nature. My children's core personality was apparent the moment they were born. My daughter didn't cry. She simply looked around with dark eyes. My son, however, cried for most of an hour after he was born. And he didn't start talking until he was 3.5 years old. He simply learned how to get what he wanted non-verbally and through his sister. The doctors checked him out and simply said he appeared to not feel like talking yet.

 

[GreenDude1]

Straight up pedophilia. I'm dropping this series.

 

[zetsuravez]

That time when pedo joke is a thing...
Also... Comments before vs comment now....

 

[ZeroPunchMan]

a pedo calling someone else a pedo, that's rich

Unless you're just joking, she's not a "pedo" if you mean "child predator" which it usually refers to these days.

At the absolute worst, she's only perhaps an accidental shota-con—someone who clearly had a reaction somewhat pertaining to romantic attraction to Jun (a child) holding her hand to help treat her hand injuries, concerning and would need to be addressed and dealt with in a real life scenario even if rooted in pure, incorrupted feelings—while her "fiancé" on the other hand is undeniably a complete degenerate who doesn't deserve the basic rights of freedom and life, much less the freedom to be allowed around children.

Toru (vampire nurse) has already proven herself someone to in-fact be a protector of children.. aside from drinking their blood which is a strict biological necessity she is forced to seek. Only "bad" aspect about her is that she is a glutton who clearly sees Jun as her personal walking-and-talking blood bag, targeting him for his "delicious" blood that he willingly gives anyways.

Hell, she still even scolds him about pushing it too far with offering his blood—despite it being something she'd literally die without consuming regularly, which should actually give her every reason to take the effortless opportunity of manipulating the poor kid into giving her more of his blood—which is the complete moral opposite of an actual child predator.. who has no issue physically and/or psychologically destroying the lives of children just to merely satisfy wicked sexual desires that have absolutely nothing to do with strict "needs".

Anyways, let's not just not carelessly throw around the word "pedo" outside of jokes. Only makes it harder to call out and persecute them, which especially makes my blood boil as someone who probably hates child predators more than every person in this comment section combined.