Oh for crying out loud. You know what? Sure, yeah. Real underage girls are totally well-known for their curvy, porn-star proportions, and pedophiles are always after the ones with the round asses and huge tits. That's totally how that works.major_chaos said:
What I'm getting at is this: An attraction to underage anime characters =/= an attraction to actual underage people. When judging people who like fictional women, canon age is not what matters, apparent physical age is. The canon ages of the women in Senran Kagura probably range from 15 to 18, just as a guess. But if you're judging them by their physical ages, there's no way any of them would be that young in real life. No way. Senran Kagura is a game for people who like big, round curves and a tiny waist. That's not the "dangerous predator" crowd that you're so afraid of. The people who play Senran Kagura are no more likely to harm your sister than the people who work for charity organizations.
And I'm tired of having to explain this, but I'll explain it again. Sexy =/= sexism. Just because a game features sexy women does not mean that the game intends to claim that women should always be sexy. The answer to solving the sexism issue is not to ban games like that altogether, it's simply to tone them down. Make them less frequently. Create more games featuring strong women who are actually well written and interesting. But to say that there's something wrong with the mere existence of sexy women is to say there's something wrong with being a straight male or a lesbian. These games are made for people who like to fantasize about unrealistically curvy women, and that's who they're marketed to. It only becomes insulting and sexist when the game's creators try to market it to everybody as if they think everybody would enjoy it. These games are basically softcore porn, and softcore porn has a place in our society because fantasizing is healthy. You're supposed to fantasize. You're supposed to explore your sexuality. It's the people who don't explore their sexuality who you really need to fear. Those are the real ones who pose a threat to your sister. The guys who keep their sexuality locked up and repressed. For example, people who work for the church.
Do you ever wonder why there are so many reports of molestation coming from the church? It's not just a coincidence. There's a reason for it, and that reason is very simple: Priests aren't allowed to have sex. "Clergy" is the only profession in the world where you're told to remain celibate, and that's why they end up all screwed up. The human body isn't designed that way. Evolution didn't intend for us to bottle up our sexualities. That's why you need to fantasize. You need to "play with yourself" once in a while. You need to be honest with yourself about what you enjoy. But when you repress it, when you fight your sexual urges, and join an organization that makes you feel guilty for even having those urges, it starts to screw up your head in all kinds of crazy ways. Pedophile priests didn't start out as pedophiles. They were just so repressed that their brains actually broke.
I'll be the first to admit, I like Senran Kagura. I like unrealistically sexy, bouncy women in video games. But you probably assume that automatically makes me a terrible person, so let's see what kind of terrible person I really am: I go to college. I donate to charity quite regularly even though I don't have much myself. I don't believe in war or the death penalty, I don't like killing. I'm also a male feminist. I believe in total gender equality, and I treat women with the same respect I treat men. I regard them as equals and will have any debate with a woman that I will have with a man. If I find a woman attractive, it does not automatically turn her into an object in my mind. I don't use words like "*****" because I think words like that carry sexist connotations. I recently helped campaign for gay marriage in my state. I hate how the justice system works and I think we should free all the potheads. I support equal pay for women. I'm pro-choice. Oh, and I have a girlfriend.
