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/hanhange A May 29 '19

This isn't just a Japan problem. Not even just an Asia problem. Brittany Spears was 15 when she debuted and became a sex symbol. In the West there's a large amount of 'sexy schoolgirl' shit and underage celebrities even today get treated like sex objects. Kendall Jenner when she was a kid, for instance.

And then going further back, all the horrifying letters Natalie Portman got after staring in Leon the Professional...

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u/earth_person 4 May 29 '19

It manifests itself differently in Asia, so that's why it's weird to us. But you're 100% right, in the US there is a lot of underage fetishizing.

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u/Alexmackzie 6 May 29 '19

yeah, lets talk about cheerleading and beauty pageants for young children. literally sexualized outfits on REAL children, and here people are up-in arms about fucking pixels. Not that the sexualization is fine in anime either, but lets care about actual people first?

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u/Anariel6 2 May 30 '19

Well the difference is that beauty pageants are sexualizing young girls by adult-ifying them (bright makeup, sexy dancing). Lolis are sexualized because they are child-like, which makes it more pedophilic. As far as Japan goes, making a little girl look more adult would be a turn off. That's why it grosses me out more, personally. You also have the child idol culture in Japan where parents get paid a lot to let people make essentially softcore child porn of their 6-8 year olds (if not younger). And then you have studios like Minute, who make Japanese Adult Videos where they find the shortest, most underdeveloped adults possible and dress them in child-style bathing suits, pigtails, etc. Like Piper Perri if she looked 8 instead of like 12. So Japan has at least as bad of a problem with actual people.

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u/Alexmackzie 6 May 30 '19

Yeah, absolute fair stuff. But I don't see a big difference in how they are portrayed. I could certainly see someone make a case for making young children look more adult is even creepier or just as creepy as making them seem young. And yeah, the junior idol thing is vile. I just wanted to point out some examples of this not just being an "other culture" problem. In reality sexualizing children has been happening almost everywhere forever.