so i asked you all about InuYasha manga pages and panels you liked (i am trying to do something with the suggestions... still fighting art block)
this post is unrelated, but i feel bad i'm still working on my personal zine. being an adult with a full time job is hard, lol. so have this page that i have been keeping from you all for a long time
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"if you see someone shoplifting, no you didn't" no but like. i really didn't. i have never in my life seen someone shoplifting because i'm not watching anyone else in the grocery store..? how are y'all noticing things like that. my only goals are enter the store, survive, exit the store
this past week i saw yet another post being like “she’s!!!! 12!!!!!” about a young female character and her body from a fandom i’m not a part of, and it never ceases to make me so inconsolably infuriated … so excuse me while i rant in another post about a topic nobody probably cares about for the millionth time but:
why is the argument always framed as “young girls don’t look like that” instead of “why is a young girl with boobs being sexualized like this?”
young girls can look Like That™️. young girls do look Like That™️. and your denial isn’t going to change that fact
the reality of the situation is that your refusal to accept that there are female bodies that start developing as soon as 9 years of age actually encourages the sexualization of young women instead of fighting against it like you think. by simply saying “a 12 year old girl can’t look like this,” you are isolating those that do; telling them in not so many words that they aren’t children anymore but adults
when you say “young girls don’t look like that,” you are actually a part of the massive global problem of girls being overly sexualized at a young age
what really needs to be done when criticizing media and how it approaches the topic of young female bodies, is not hyper-fixating on the female bodies themselves… but rather how the author/artist is portraying them outside of that physicality. how are other characters reacting to them? are they constantly in skimpy clothing or topless for no reason? a child simply having boobs is not a crime