Many Americans support a ban on sexualized depictions of minors in cartoons and would rather stick to sexualizing real minors
TOKYO, JAPAN – Westerners reacted with fury to the exclusion of anime and manga from Japan’s recent ban on the possession of child pornography, and then promptly went back to sexualizing real minors on TV, in magazines, and in campaign ads in papers and on billboards.
“The Japanese should be ashamed of themselves for allowing the possession of underage hentai manga,” said Stephen Brower, who has a poster of 16-year-old Kylie Jenner in a string bikini on the wall of his cubicle. “This is all because the Japanese child porn lobby is too powerful. I mean, I remember this fight all the way back to when I had a poster of 16-year-old Britney Spears in a cutoff schoolgirl uniform up on that wall. This has been going on for years! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to get back to my Little Miss Perfect marathon.”
Emotions ran similarly high in the entertainment industry, and several TV shows including Toddlers & Tiaras, Honey Boo Boo and Dance Moms featured dedicated messages extolling Japan for its refusal to ban drawings of things that aren’t real because they found their content objectionable. “I don’t drag my 8 year old daughter to beauty pageants and make her shake her ass in a skimpy outfit so that someone inspired by a Japanese cartoon can slobber all over her,” said June Shannon, mother of Honey Boo Boo star Alana Thompson. “Our daughters should have a safe and supportive environment in which to dance on stripper poles on national television at age 10.”
A high-ranking Western government official told Anime Maru that the fact that Japan has less cases of rape per 100,000 people than Canada, the U.S., France, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K., Belgium, Sweden, Australia, Korea, and the Philippines, among others, was no excuse for their government refusing to ban art they didn’t approve of.
Funny, and with valid points.
Nice article.
Its not real, there’s a difference. Anime isn’t real, do you see people acting out attack on titan and slashing people in the neck? No. its a drawing, you know what would you rather see? Drawing or a lot of the sick shit that goes on in America? Where child pornography and rape really happens.
bullshit, If I saw a dude outside who was 20ft tall there’s no telling what I would do to them after watching Attack on Titan. This is the true danger of Anime.
Moe is literally pearl harbor 2.
Well said. Especially that bit about Japan having less rape cases than the other mentioned countries. Not that people are good at listening to such figures, but some of us still appreciate them.
Even considered that perhaps the reason why Japan has less rape cases than others is due to said cases being underreported compared to others?
Then, America would statistically have more unreported rape cases, too. There’s a huge amount of stigma and shame that comes with reporting that kind of stuff, if they even decide to believe it.
Funny article but, the word “extolling” is used incorrectly here. To extol is to praise, not condemn.
I’m glad somebody said it. Grammar Police ASSEMBLE!
The hypocrisy of the West never fails to surprise me.