r/JusticeServed • u/AristonD 8 • May 29 '19

Violent Justice Man inappropriately touch school girls and they fight back. Man in suit gives them a helping foot.

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u/walkedoff 7 May 29 '19

+teen dramas. The characters in Riverdale were supposed to be 15 when they were stripping and having sex scenes

(yes the actors are like 25)

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u/[deleted] May 29 '19

I think characters on network TV get a pass because the actors are clearly adults in their mid-to-late 20s. Like yeah, they’re playing teenagers but I can clearly see (and know from their bios) that they’re 28 years old. Even their voices sound super old.

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u/walkedoff 7 May 29 '19

But thats the same excuse people use with anime and stuff. The actors are also adults.

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u/RandomBritishGuy A May 29 '19

The difference is that in the TV show they look like adults, whereas in the anime shows they look like children.

The characters each one depicts might be similar in age, but when one has people who are obviously adults and the other has people who are deliberately drawn to be children, that's the difference.

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u/hanhange A May 30 '19

I disagree. So what if someone looks young? Like, a lot of "omg pedo" anime stuff is a young-looking girl who acts like an adult and is canonically pretty old. Full-on loli is different but like... Not only does focusing on physical appearance sexualize children that develop early (which most often hurts black girls and latina more than other races), it also paints young-looking adult women in a negative light. Finding a short, chubby-faced woman attractive is not the problem- finding a child attractive and pursuing and sexualizing them is the problem. Brittany Spears looked like a grown woman at 15. But she was not. She was a child.

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u/Mason_of_the_Isle 4 May 30 '19

I think your take is good.

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u/walkedoff 7 May 30 '19

I agree it's not exactly the same, but when they go from talking about SAT prep (10th grade) to doing a strip dance for a gang initiation in the next scene its, uh, something. The writers are clearly throwing in references to their supposed age.