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Now I originally came across this on Reddit like six months ago. I know, but because of one of the responses I got to the comment that I made about it, that was a big part of the reason why I no longer use Reddit. And it was actually a response to a comment that was made to a post that was titled “How old was Kagome when she got pregnant? And isn’t Rin much younger than Kagome? But she had her kids first?”.

And the comment that I was responding to was “It definitely makes more sense that Kagome would know a lot more about preventing child birth. I think fans are curious about Ron’s (Rin’s) age considering she looked much younger than everyone else. I keep forgetting that the character have always been so young. It was pretty common in history for women to starting bearing children as young at 14. I should have tried to watch Inuyasha again before watching Yashahime. The time line was so off in my mind because I didn’t revisit the show.”

So the comment that I made as a reply to that one, and this is the main point of this blog, was: ”Yeah, very good point about the fact that people back in that day often had children starting at age 14. Heck, take a look at biblical times, where it was 13, or even 12. And I got just a little peeved when I saw the title of a YouTube video asking if it was OK for Rin and Sesshomaru to be married considering how young Rin was. This is someone who clearly has no understanding of the realities of those kinds of time periods.

They’re taking modern day morals and ethics, and applying it to a time period where it is not at all applicable or even makes sense, considering. And judging from the title itself, this is clearly another case of cancel culture, or at least attempted cancel culture in this case. It’s already scary enough that they did all that other stuff, but then they try and white wash history as well?

Sorry, but when it reaches our fandom‘s like this, that’s when I really get angry! Thank you for showing understanding, by explaining that part about people having kids at age 14. Seriously, I obviously appreciate it.”

So yeah, I felt that was a very well reasoned argument. But there was one person who respond to me that was, quite frankly, a total psycho. Seriously, they acted like a lunatic towards me. Even calling me “sweaty” just because I said I get angry sometimes in response to this, when I was saying it in a rather calm and collected matter I might add. And total hypocrisy on their part to show so much hostility, you have to call me something like “sweaty”. And it was at 4 o’clock in the morning eastern time nonetheless. Seriously, I’m not the one that needed to take a chill pill and just go to hell to bed at that point, that other person did. Update (1/30/22): Here, you can click on the link to the first comment that I made on the thread so you can see for yourself, if you want to that is: https://www.reddit.com/r/Yashahime/comments/nj3ajj/comment/gz72bu3/

But enough on that. Hey, at least I got a karma rating of +13 for the comment that I made. So I guess it was still well worth it. But that’s another reason why I left there, and join here to be quite frank. Far less hostility like that on MAL. And I’ve since learned about the terrible reputation that Reddit has now. And it’s obviously well deserved, because I came across a lot of ultra negativity weather was directed at me, or others in other subreddits. Well I’m never going back, and like I said, I’m gonna stay on MAL, and other places that I know I can trust.

So thank you for reading my first blog post on here. It wasn’t the first blog I ever did, just on here. I hope that you found it insightful and helpful.