Make no mistake—Sugiyama is no fan of the comics. He said he did not watch them, but would defend what he called the rights of those who did. He went so far as to compare people who like such manga with suppressed minority groups such as LGBTQ people in Japan, and blamed the “rise of feminism” in the country for the growing pressure to ban the content.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Pedophiles stop acting like it's anything like being LGBT challenge (impossible)

  • InvaderZinn [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    :frothingfash:: "I may be a diddler but at least I'm not gay!"

    :frothingfash:: "Wait, why are some people disgusted by this, this is literally the same persecution gay people go through (not that I disagree with how they're treated)!"

    How did Japan catch Westbrain again?

  • Soap_Owl [any]
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    2 years ago

    Who would have thought that a country that the US set up in the 1950 would have bad sexual politics

    • Fdos [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Japan wasn't exactly the land of sexual liberation before WWII. Women called their husbands "lord" and were expected to obey.

      • Soap_Owl [any]
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        2 years ago

        It wasn't perfect but unless I am remembering things wrong female pleasure and same sex acti ity were culturally important activities so they would be progressive compared to most america today

        • Fdos [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          You know what bukkake is? It's from back when the village men would catch a woman cheating. They'd tie her up, drag her into a cave, and all whack off on her face. Thus disgraced, she could never again return. So progressive.

            • Fdos [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              Yeah, it's a kind of noodles. It's also the name for a disgrace ritual because of the obvious parallel. Can't believe people are defending the misogynist hate rituals of pre-WW2 Japan, but here it is.

          • Soap_Owl [any]
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            2 years ago

            And were that true it could still be said that they weren't perfect but by virtue of assigning cultural legitimatacy to female pleasure and same sex activities they would be more progressive than most of america today.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      They're mostly milquetoast socdems or demsocs who distance themselves from AES.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Word on the street is that the rank and file have been getting more militant in response to the LDP getting more fashy, but the leadership is terrified of being likened to past leaders that did terrorism and alienated the masses from the party in the fifties. Still if the LDP (America's puppet party, don't forget) ever collapses the JCP will almost certainly be one of the major players in the resulting realignment.

      • SaniFlush [any, any]
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        2 years ago

        In the only country more capitalist than America? Of course they are.

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I wouldn't say they're more capitalist than America. They do have affordable public healthcare and transportation at least.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Is it praxis to sing death metal karaoke that involves prayers to a weather god to strike down one's shitty boss through a bolt of lightning directed through his golf club?

    • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      It's a completely revisionist party, read https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2020/01/program-of-the-jcp.html if you want to go insane

  • D61 [any]
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    2 years ago

    :congratulations:

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The number of otaku creeps that completely fucking missed the point of Evangelion so badly that Anno burned the franchise down and had Shinji

      spoiler

      rub one out to an unconscious body

      just to make it clear how disgusted he was with the

      spoiler

      weebs that drooled over child soldiers, especially Rei because of their craving for infinite purity virgin-respawn clones that wouldn't develop too much assertiveness or talk back before being killed and replaced

      :libertarian-alert: and they still didn't get it and sifted through the tea leaves for decades afterward trying to find deeper subtextual meaning is too damn high.

      • D61 [any]
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        2 years ago

        The number of otaku creeps that completely fucking missed the point of Evangelion so badly that Anno burned the franchise down and had Shinji

        :rat-salute-2:

        (Also, I had always wondered a bit about that scene. I got that the extremely uncomfortable vibes were intentional but didn't know the authorial intent behind it.)

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I got that the extremely uncomfortable vibes were intentional but didn’t know the authorial intent behind it.

          He openly and directly told Japanese press his intent afterward, yet because animoo was mysterious and magical to western weebs, that was ignored or downplayed in favor of vague nebulous deeper meaning pretenses.

          He was presenting a "dog caught the car" situation. "There. This is what you wanted, you creeps. You like it now? YOU LIKE IT NOW?"

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    What the fuck.

    I really, really hate when they try compare pedos to gay folks. It's incredibly harmful and hurtful.

    Fuck :japan-cool:

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    :awooga: :pathetic: :libertarian-alert: :porky-happy: :brrrrrrrrrrrr:

  • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    “We oppose policies that infringe on our freedom of expression,” Taisei Sugiyama, a Japanese videographer, said. Make no mistake—Sugiyama is no fan of the comics. He said he did not watch them,

    :doubt:

  • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The article had a link to a research paper I could not read. Does research show that anime/manga increases the risk of child sexual abuse?

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      No children were harmed by CG/drawn/AI kid porn and its existence is generally regarded (by the anti child abuse advocacy orgs I’ve ever heard comment on this kind of stuff) as good and beneficial in reducing actual child abuse. Nobody is a pedophile because of this stuff, at least as few as people who are gay or have certain sexual preferences as a result of mostly environmental causes are, probably.

      What the fuck is wrong with you. Stop comparing gay people to pedos. Jesus Christ.

      No, drawn child porn does not reduce the chance of actual child abuse. If you believe that I don't know what to say

      And yes, if someone sexually abuses a child while drunk they are a pedo. Obviously.

      Your whole comment is full of shit.