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05/04/10(Tue)08:37 No.34349405>>34349167
You fail
to realize that that doesn't matter. What matters is a story, real or
not, that can catch the attention of the English speaking world.
Correspondents for CNN, BBC, whatever in Japan don't give a fuck about
whether or not loli manga exists there as a relatively underground
market because that isn't news so it wouldn't even cross their minds to
report it. What is news (potentially) is a picture of someone
recognizable to the mainstream media in the West reading loli manga.
That draws attention, and attention is bad because people with kids are
notoriously gullible when it comes to anything involving "protecting the
children". That leads to shit like foreign feminist groups giving
support to small feminist groups in Japan which gives them more of an
ability to put pressure on the government to get "immoral" content
banned. And that leads to a chilling effect not only on the creators of
manga but anyone who makes any sort of work of fiction.
Again,
I'm speaking in hypothetical here, but if you'd asked me 4 or so years
ago if an ero game featuring rape would make it to the front page of
cnn.com and the resulting outcry would lead to the consideration of the
banning of such things, voluntary or not I'd say you're fucking crazy.
See what I mean? |
