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Message: [QUOTE="miguk, post: 46327, member: 1510"] The sad thing is, there are a lot of manga/anime/gaming fans who insist this is normal in Japan/Asia just because it's in Japanese media. What they don't get (which those of us who lived in Asia do) is that the pedo thing actually [I]isn't[/I] considered normal, and is just a result of lobbying by Japanese media companies. In literally every other facet of Japanese life, they've pushed the pedos out of normal society [I]even more[/I] than in the West. That's essentially because they've acknowledge that they have/had a problem with it, and have made an effort to make laws to get rid of the problem. By comparison, the US hasn't done much. We still have legal marriage to minors in multiple states. We still have child beauty pageants (and teen idols weren't that long ago). We still have multiple state age of consent laws below 18. And of course, we have predators who don't go to jail despite being already publicly known for what they did. (And all of this is backed by some of the same people Red Scaring gay people.) Japan has made an effort to do away with a lot of that (maybe not the teen idols). Unfortunately, Japanese media companies actually [I]want[/I] to be able to continue making media for pedo trash. There's an exception in Japanese CSAM law that allows for it to be done with fictional (drawn) characters in order to protect the manga/anime industry. The industry, in turn, insists that it's normal in Japan and that foreigners who complain are ignoring cultural differences. Foreign fans, mostly unfamiliar with the culture, just nod their heads along and assume the guys who only care about making more money — not cultural exchange — are telling the truth. And the weird thing about it is, so few of these writers are willing to portray LGBT people in just as equal a way as they portray pedos. You'll see characters nod their heads along to a loli-con like they said nothing weird while acting completely shocked the moment a character comes out as gay. It's not so much that these writers are trying to be inclusive as it is they are being lazy and feeding the lowest common denominator while avoiding anything that will make the easiest audience to bait less likely to buy their merch in droves. [/QUOTE]

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