@Mr_Detective
When you criticize the mods for actively moderating a forum with a contentious topic like the BLM/George Floyd protest even when they took a very neutral stance on a issue that is clear as day. They literally tried to appease people bro. The only (wierdly) partisan thing that could be considered is the shoutout to the ACLU and even that was mild.
Also, I am allowed to be apart of the discussion no matter what. I can view or post where ever I like to unless my post breaks the admin/moderator rules of the forum. I don't care that an Alarmist doesn't want me to react in good faith (especially with criticisms of his post); if he name-calls me and blocks me then that's fine but I shouldn't be disallowed from posting my opinion under his shit because his (quite shitty) accusations that I stalk him for some reason.
Students pay their professors to correct their work. No one asked you to do anything. In fact, you were blocked and unwelcome, and yet you still stick your nose into his thread. I am not going to get into whether either one of you is right or wrong in your views, but just the sole act of you butting into his thread is enough to make me find you unpleasant. Again. No one stops you from countering his views. In another thread of your own.
Semantics here, but not really, you don't really pay professors to pay to check your work, (in my case) you either go out your way to get a paper corrected as it is really isn't what professors are meant to do. I don't think they are paid if you ask them to go over your paper unless you count that as work or apart of their pay-stub but that isn't really a big deal.
If what I am doing (i.e. participating in a thread) is "butting in" then damn, there are so many asses in this thread. To restate this, I am allowed to post, comment or add discussion to any thread as long as I am not breaking the rules. As you can see, I am not banned as what I am doing, posting in a thread, isn't a bannable offense.
A non-issue for me, and I think it should be for the Aussies as well. But who knows? Maybe he's used to buying stuff from Kinokuniya, and this pisses him off. Or he simply doesn't agree with the loud-mouth senator's lies and hysteria, and censorship. A point I can understand.
Glad you admit it. It isn't a big issue and thus I don't really think attention should be garnered for when the topic is as tiny as this. It isn't an issue because of the repercussions for it only affect a handful of people at that store and furthermore minimizes when you include other factors like readers, location, prices, fandom etc. There is a chance that this pull effected no one but is being blown up by people like crazybars who like to revile in outrageous headlines, dodgy reporting and alarmist articles. As I said before "censorship" really is a trigger word for anime fans; even when it isn't actually happening you guys are got the pitchforks ready.
Until it isn't. If Goblin Slayer and SAO are on the chopping block, despite them having nothing at all to do with child abuse, I won't be surprised if we see a headline like this someday "Australian senator calls for ban of DBZ and Naruto, citing child abuse".
Then I'll wait until it isn't.
It is an art style. Just because you interpret a certain character as a minor doesn't mean that must be what the creator intended, or what everyone else must see. I can create a young looking goddess who's actually 2000 years old in universe, and you can see it as a 12-year-old kid, doesn't mean I have to bow down to your interpretation. It doesn't work that way.
"But Mother... Mother, I wasn't jacking off to a adolescent girl. It's a drawing of a dragon goddess who is two thousand years old in a revealing pose meant to sexualize the character. Huge difference!"
Bro, that excuse has gotten old. Yeah sure you could possibly say that there is a degree of detachment there but it isn't as big as it seems. I'll say it again: "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck". Unless people have evidence that pedophiles don't actively target kids after being given material like lolicon doujins then I will firmly stay on the side of abductive reasoning and say what you would be doing is jacking off to a drawing of a child. Now, you wouldn't be telling me that the duck I was staring at was a door.
The problem with your way of thinking is that a fictional character is not a real person. What freaking real life child looks like an anime character? Similarly, a video game character can look real with today's technology, doesn't mean the character is real.
If you want to argue that maybe some characters should have their age adjusted a bit to fit in with the laws, then most people won't complain about that. But if the plot dictates a certain character to be a certain age, for whatever reason, then that could be negotiated. But nope. Ban hammer it is.
The rape scenes in GS are actually only a few pages, and they were not intended to make the readers horny in anyway. They were to show how brutal and dangerous the goblins are, until the MC shows up to save the lone survivor. It was a good way to introduce a common enemy in the story. Now, you might find that as child abuse, or child porn, doesn't mean I have to see it the same way. And I don't think any of those characters were even underage. I've seen people making a fuss over these scenes because of the rape acts, but very little attention was given to the guy who was brutally killed while defending them. Two girls survived. He didn't.
I also find the outrage about these scenes laughable. They are very very tame, and barely show anything, if we compare them to actual hentai and porn. Sorry, but I've seen enough pornographic contents to not freak out over a few panels of naked female characters. I can see why it might be shocking for teenagers, maybe.
You might just have such a simplistic and immature view on topics (e.g rape, murder, etc) which could be distressing to others. While I don't really mind the scenes in GS, know one with a brain can be some flippant about it and act like it is not a big deal. That would be questionable as you are meant to sympathize with the victim so by saying "they are very very tame and barely show anything" in relation to porn is to undermine Fighter's pain through the scene. That is what it is.
No.
If she really wants to go after child exploitation, go sign up for a job at the police station or whatever the equivalent of the FBI is in Australia. Banning a few manga and anime won't do a damn thing against actual child predators. You seem to have the mindset of "fapping to certain 2D characters will lead to real life rape", and that's illogical. This is in the same line of logic as blaming video games for mass shootings or violent crimes. Just because I played CoD once doesn't mean I'd wanna go shoot Russian people. Just because I read some hentai stuff every now and then doesn't mean I'm gonna go rape someone. Most people have this ability to distinguish between fantasy and reality, which ironically, is something these pro-censorship people lack.
No. I do not think sexualizing 2D characters is the cause for child exploitation in real life. For the same reason why I won't blame FPS games for mass shootings.
You claim to be fact-checking. But so far, everything I've seen from you is very baseless. I can sort of see why you were blocked.
You have got to be kidding me. Anime, as a medium of expression, is art. You can't deny it. People want Anime to be taken seriously yet say this shit. Anime isn't created in a vacuum, it reflects the creators views whether consciously or unconsciously and shaped by the time period it finds itself in. Almost ever anime pushes political and social messages intentionally or unintentionally by the author. Try watching anime and ask yourself what is the purpose of it and what is the message by the author. Characters can be used to represent a different side to a philosophical argument or a different stance on a political issue. The political and social issues can also be the catalyst of the major conflict in the story or peripheral conflicts that appear in the story. Even the most trash anime has political and social messages embedded them, so its not like its rare happenstance in anime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art#Motivated_functions
Continuing on, the media you consume is meant to represent a form of idealized form of real life and as media reflects how you view the world and the people around you. I wish I could say that media isn't trans-formative but I would be lying. People have been slaughter in mass because the person in question held beliefs that were from hearing other, watching media or reading books but then again people don't want to face the fact that anime, as a medium of expression, is inherently trans-formative in nature and cannot be detached from the status quo of the authors. People will fight to the teeth about this topic whenever it comes up but act in bad faith. Then again media also has a positive effect on people, I cannot deny that. People have this idea that media doesn't effect on our outlook on life. If you watch media that treats females as objects, then you are going to assume that females are objects; reflexively not innately. People are shaped (heavily and greatly) by their environments.
Now let me address your point, if she wants to go after child exploitation, it would be valid to go after sources of child exploitation. While I agree that anime is by no means a major player or moviator in CSA cases or anything we have to address where it could possibly appear from. People could have been molested as a child then go on to further the abuse by abusing others (which is the majority of cases) (read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse#Offenders; sources at the bottom if you don't understand wikipedia). Again, I am not of the opinion of "fapping to certain 2D characters will lead to real life rape" but more so that "fapping to certain 2D characters lead to the behaviors that prelude to actions that could be CSA". I would be at fault if I failed to make that distinction. Though, because whenever people discuss this issue, within communities around certain media like anime and gaming, it is viewed as an attack on their character but no one actually wants to show any form of introspection. Granted there are better ways to attack CSA such as going after discord and the like but yeah. This is a non-issue presented as an attack on people's livelihoods for some reason.
Next time, whenever you are responding to me, @ me. Please try not to vague-post so the sycophants act like it is a victory.
