If you find a picture of a real adult person attractive, but I then tell you they play a 17-year-old in a movie… Do you suddenly just stop finding them attractive? Are they not, in just the same way, “effectively” a child?
Or would you just tell me to fuck off, because it’s not like you were looking at them and feeling what you felt because of, or even despite, that.
What 17-year-old? There is no 17-year-old. It’s a fictional person. Made up. Invented. Arbitrary. Not real.
An actor can pretend to be any age, but a fictional figment of my imagination can be any age. You tell me she’s “canonically” a certain age, and I tell you I don’t care. That’s someone else’s imagination, not mine.
With a real person their age would have legal and mental implications, because you know, they’re real.
But with a fictional one, a character is literally whatever you think they are. It’s not like the canonical age of a charachter is somehow static and universal, so that they are their “official” age in all depictions and thoughts.
I’m not looking at her and imagining a child. End of story.
Adults can pass for underage people, and underage people can pass for adults.
Finding people in that range of appearances attractive, is normal.
Not respecting consent and the mental maturity required to be capable of it, is wrong.
No normal person is going to sleep with someone while they’re passed out, no matter how legal they are. For the same reason, no normal person is going to sleep with someone incapable of consenting due to the mental immaturity of their brain, no matter how grown up their body appears.
Their exact age, isn’t the issue. That’s the line drawn by the law. The moral one is more nuanced. As an example, I stopped pursuing someone when I was 19, because even though they were 18, mentally they seemed too young, and I wasn’t ok with that.
Considering that is in no way a concern with fictional people, depicted in a style that omits age-indicating details, I seriously struggle to understand what it is you take issue with.
You’re going to have to elaborate. Why?
If you find a picture of a real adult person attractive, but I then tell you they play a 17-year-old in a movie… Do you suddenly just stop finding them attractive? Are they not, in just the same way, “effectively” a child?
Or would you just tell me to fuck off, because it’s not like you were looking at them and feeling what you felt because of, or even despite, that.
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What 17-year-old? There is no 17-year-old. It’s a fictional person. Made up. Invented. Arbitrary. Not real.
An actor can pretend to be any age, but a fictional figment of my imagination can be any age. You tell me she’s “canonically” a certain age, and I tell you I don’t care. That’s someone else’s imagination, not mine.
With a real person their age would have legal and mental implications, because you know, they’re real.
But with a fictional one, a character is literally whatever you think they are. It’s not like the canonical age of a charachter is somehow static and universal, so that they are their “official” age in all depictions and thoughts.
I’m not looking at her and imagining a child. End of story.
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Dude.
Which part of “I’m not thinking of a child” do you not get?
You’re the only one picturing a kid here.
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Who decided this depiction features a 17-year-old?
Are these 17 to 20-year-olds?
Does the existence of these aged down versions of the adult charachters make sexy art of 19-year-old Satsuki “wrong”?
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Done.
Did you not get that I know how old Ryuko is canonically?
I literally wrote that in the anime she is definitely 17… But why would that age universally apply in fanart? Like for fucks sake buddy.
No. I can see that you are ignoring what I’m actually saying.
Next, I’m going to ban you.
Adults can pass for underage people, and underage people can pass for adults.
Finding people in that range of appearances attractive, is normal.
Not respecting consent and the mental maturity required to be capable of it, is wrong.
No normal person is going to sleep with someone while they’re passed out, no matter how legal they are. For the same reason, no normal person is going to sleep with someone incapable of consenting due to the mental immaturity of their brain, no matter how grown up their body appears.
Their exact age, isn’t the issue. That’s the line drawn by the law. The moral one is more nuanced. As an example, I stopped pursuing someone when I was 19, because even though they were 18, mentally they seemed too young, and I wasn’t ok with that.
Considering that is in no way a concern with fictional people, depicted in a style that omits age-indicating details, I seriously struggle to understand what it is you take issue with.