I was reading a pretty-okay article about doujin circles from 1996 and the writer said the cons were filled with "virginal girls." Why oh why do you need to weigh in on their sex lives when saying young girls write their own manga? I also hate the absolutely disgusting look so many people in america take with Japanese school girls. Not saying Japan is totally innocent here, but the whole "yeah all Japanese school girls are super-sexualised. I know because every piece of Japanese culture I look at contains sexualized children" and never realise that this is a statement on their own failure.
basically me when trying to read about premodern india. the most obvious stuff is the 19th century race science and aryan shit, the sexualisation stuff isnt as front and center but its definitely still there because of orientalism and cetera
yeah. The way americans in general interacted with any foreign culture was just absurd in how weirdly racist and sexual it is. Not saying its perfect now, but a fair sight better.
most of the shit im thinking of is british/german but what can i say we (americans) learned from the best