>>27666Yeah, and I'm entirely over it. I grew up in the 90s when it was rap music destroying America, and then video games, and the absurdity really hits you when you compare Mortal Kombat, the Great Moral Danger whose violence was training our precious young people to kill, with its modern remake. Like this cartoon blood was acid on America's moral fiber, and nowadays MK shows you shattering photorealistic bones and rupturing organs in slow motion. It's simply ridiculous.
>>27667It depends on where you go really. Even here though it happens sometimes. Like someone posted their AI waifu in the isg thread and it derailed into accusations of pedophilia because I guess this fictional ethot was too young looking in the face? It reminded me of when Australia tried to ban pictures of small-chested women because it was "pedophilic." There's a hysteria around it that's really just starting to get grating in the same way that antisemitism is. They're both important subjects and serious accusations to make, and that's being undermined by some unhinged people, intentionally or not, blowing up over stuff that really doesn't matter.
I don't really think that "mentally healthy" is one typical avenue of development. I wouldn't say that someone that develops sexual attraction early is any healthier than someone that developed it later or even not at all. I think even normal sexual development can be disrupted by circumstances. My sexual interests sparked early for example, but it included boys as well as girls in a time and place where that really, really wasn't acceptable, and that left me with some baggage that affected me for a long time.
I wonder how much of this hysteria is due to alienation and atomization as well. Like I remember arguing with someone here about how they felt visceral disgust at child nudity and thought that was or should be the norm. I disagreed. Personally I think child nudity, outside of explicitly sexual depictions, just neutral. It's a fact of life. Like I come from a big family with lots of extended family too, and that meant seeing a lot of the younger ones naked for whatever reason, like changing diapers. It's just a normal thing and no big deal. To me seeing, for instance, a naked toddler and feeling revulsion at it, that's
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