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Your psychologist sucks, good luck protecting your safe bubble lmao

A lot of women have different tolerance levels to some of these things, including myself. Stuff like rape scenes or scenes that are borderline sexual assault generally aren't liked among women. Dragon Ball Super episode 89 is a great example as one of the B plots of the episode is Muten Roshi sexually harassing and attempting to sexually assault this attractive woman he finds. Many women (and even a lot of men too) found that episode completely disgusting, uncomfortable, and painful to watch. A lot of women can look past some sexual elements such as character design, a few fanservice shots, or mild nudity, but when things start to borderline onto sexual assault/harassment, it creeps us out, especially if these things are happening to underage characters. A lot of harem anime fall victim to the creepy factors and borderline sexual assault, so a lot of women avoid those shows so if you are trying to pick stuff be mindful of elements like that that may creep out women.

By the way don't listen to the people trying to discredit the idea of trying to make an inclusive space. It's something that is much needed in fandoms like this since it can often feel like an exclusionary boy's club in the anime fandom, so keep trying to get the perspectives of more women to try and build that inclusive space as it will be much appreciated for those who normally feel excluded

I'm a guy. Just throwing that out as a disclaimer.

As someone who was interested in this topic and having created some threads addressing it in the past I think I can comment a little bit on the subject.

Basically most girls did not seem to mind sexual scenes, and all the better if they have plot relevance, but it was extremely rare to find women that praised such scenes. i.e. they are tolerating them but it's not exactly what they like. This being said I believe there is a selection bias in this type of thread, particularly in my thread about what fan service female anime fans would like to see, I could not for the life of me get a straight answer from almost anyone. It seems that for many female fans there is a strong tendency to be coy about the subject and avoid revealing ones true feelings. Everyone is entitled to their privacy of course, I am simply saying that you need to take this into consideration when you reach your ultimate conclusion.

So in short what I want to say is, please do not think of whoever you are catering to as a group but as individuals. You should really be asking the actual people in your group, not random fans on MAL. And if you are looking for general principles I would say try to not assume things. You don't have to shield anyone from the "evil" ecchi anime, you can expose them to the genre, get reactions and plot a course accordingly. I would assume when you watch anime in a group its unavoidable that some anime are going to be liked by some more than others, but what you are really there for is the social aspect of watching in a group and talking about it as a group. For that reason I think variety is very important, it's not really about "keeping it as safe as possible".

Anyway, that's just my 2 cents, hope I didn't come off as preachy or anything , happy watching :)

As a female I really don’t give a shit about all this sexualization and fanservice, as long as child looking characters aren’t involved. That’s fucking weird.


Edit; and of course the worst mod on this website decides to lock the thread.

Can I be your psychologist? I will tell you how good you are and support your views as a true liberal 🤡