exonerate said:Moe132 said: ok my response to you is with all due respect so if i offend you anyway im sorry, ok first thing is about perspective, i totally agree with i don't except anyone to read or watch a story and think the same thoughts that i have or understood the story the same way i did that's why i dont have a problem with shippers even though i dislike shipping but every one to his own (unless you start forcing your ships on others like what aot fans do).
Now you talk about opinions, it's not a terrible opinion. shipping minors with adults means that they are giving pedophilia a platform, They are normalising and romanticising pedophilia and it doesn't matter if its fictional or not because guess what? It's a story and stories affect the human brain. Your logic with "some people agree with it and some disagree with it" can be used on anything bad, I'll give you an example
Oh well some people think racism is ok and some people don't so it's an opinion. See?
I mean no offense either, but I hope that I can phrase my counter argument in such a way that this preface is unnecessary.
First of all, I think it's time to address the definitions used here. You're referring to pedophilia, while ephebophilia is the words you're looking for. None of the characters are prepubescent, and depending on in what country you live, they are already past the age of consent. So, as far as I'm concerned your concern with JJK is a moot point.
But let's go over your arguments anyway.
shipping minors with adults means that they are giving pedophilia a platform
They don't support pedophilia. Those are fictional characters. And by that argument, some anime give pedophilia a platform too. Besides, this list with ships isn't even an inherently sexual thing, unlike some anime which sexualise young female characters. I took the liberty to take a look at your list to come up with an example we had both watched.
You watched Kaguya-sama which has quite a bit of ecchi in the OVA (which admittedly, you haven't watched yet, but you know the franchise), and thus sexualises minors. According to you, then that show gives pedophilia a platform either.
They are normalising and romanticising pedophilia and it doesn't matter if its fictional or not because guess what? It's a story and stories affect the human brain.
It does matter whether it's fictional or not. By your logic, we shouldn't watch JJK either, because it features violence -- and stories affect the human brain.
Will certain types of stories attract certain audiences? Probably. But that doesn't mean that seeing that list with ships will immediately turn you into a ephebophile. You can enjoy stories that feature questionable content without feeling the urge to replicate those things or act upon it. It's just fiction. You don't have to share that view, of course, but some fanarts or a list with ships does not mean that the shippers condone pedophilia in real life.
You can watch or read things that you do not agree with without them affecting who you are.
And I find it incredibly difficult to believe that JJK attracts pedophiles as an audience in the first place. But even if this show did do that. You're putting a responsibility on the shoulders of the shippers that does not belong there. It is not their responsibility to prevent pedophiles from seeing the content they produce.