It'll be pleasant to have an anime community for once that isn't run by a reactionary or filled with reactionary content. I would like to see leftist spaces for all hobby communities.
Catch-all until growth requires splitting content off into separate spaces.
EDIT - This exists now. Come subscribe to it!: c/anime
I'd like to second this. Vast majority of anime subs on Reddit don't see the problem with the word t**p and it makes it a minefield for me.
Even the ones that do have a problem with it don't really enforce anything in anywhere close to an adequate manner.
I don't expect it to be a large community or have anything in the way of significance for quite a long time, but I think it'll get its own small niche crowd and will mostly not create many problems until the whole site is much larger.
Yeah absolutely, most of the time you can't even mention trans characters without posters chiming in to intentionally misgender the characters, spout some BS argument about canon, and scream about the "trans agenda".
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Yes please, I just wanna shitpost comrade Akko memes (and also have some good discussions without bigots chiming in)
An anime community I won't immediately be put off by? 100% yes
I love how this is like the 5th highest post in /c/commrequests chapo weebs are getting stronger by the day, can't wait to post anime with all of you soon
In two sentences or less, what are your thoughts about 1,000 year old dragons that just so happen to take the form of prepubescent girls?
One, that's a weird one to bring up as there's really nothing wrong with your sentence, what you're using it for is to imply something else that is a problem though -- the content that sexualises children. Two, there is everything wrong with the sexualisation content.
To elaborate beyond two sentences... I assume you're referring to Dragon Maid and more specifically Kanna which is an odd example as Kanna doesn't really strike me as problematicly depicted. It's pretty wholesome and she's shown in child/parent relationships the whole time, what does strike me as problematic in that show is actually Lucoa (blonde dragon) and her shota-baiting relationship with the 10 year old boy named with no hint of hiding it -- shouta. I do agree however that anybody looking at Kanna and trying to pretend she's not a child due to the whole dragon thing needs some time in re-education, that element of the "thousand year old child" does have its problems and people in the audience that don't accept that need to be chastised.
It would be good for the community to actually address these things as the problems they are in a space where we can bin off the garbage entirely, and useful for comrades that want to be able to ask the question "does this have x in it?" because they'd like to avoid that content but not get downvoted into oblivion for daring to dislike the sexualisation of children that so many in the reactionary communities are just A-OK with.
