I know how fox is. LOL you're not telling me anything new. He is likely to see that the religious extremists have a point.
You understand there is a difference though than what a girl is actually going through that is mistakenly perceived as sexual rather than creating a character that is promoting the sexualization of a child or child like qualities. When I view the girls dancing, I do not see it as sexual at all because I do not connect their dancing with sex. It is just dancing, which is about themselves and how it makes them feel rather than other people. They want to be strong, powerful, beautiful women. They want other girls to look up to them and think they are awesome as well. At that age, the attention the girls actually want from boys isn't related to intercourse. It is about wanting the boys to like them, think they are beautiful and give them attention because that is what a relationship is to a child. It isn't about sex.
It is viewing this activity as being sexual that is the problem, not what they are actually doing. Female anime characters are notoriously horribly written by male perspective that ties in male point of view rather than what girls generally think. Creating a child like character that sexualizes these child like attributes is the opposite of portraying a girl who behaves and thinks like a girl. If a girl who wants to be viewed as woman she would have created the character, she would have made the character a woman without the childlike features existing at all. Unless of course she is intentionally trying to write kiddie porn to pander to pedos. That happens, but that is exactly their intention with it when it does. when they write in things like mistaking her for a child or give her childlike attributes they are intentionally pandering to that demographic. That is not the same as a girl who doesn't want to have those child like attributes accentuated.
It is men being attracted to the woman that makes him see everything she does as sexy, rather than what she does actually being " sexy". Guys find everything from the way a girl moves her hair, walks, sips her straw, bites her lip even the way she reads a book as things they find very sexy if he is actually attracted to her. AT the same time, he doesn't find those same things sexy when he isn't attracted to the person. It isn't that the actions have sexual intent, it is that they are perceived that way when the guy finds her attractive. There is nothing wrong with the actions on their own, it is the perception and the perception written into the story that changes it.