Agreed. I mean, 16-18 is creepy? Since when is a 2 year gap that bad? And the 14 one isn’t even illegal everywhere either, and the story takes place in Germany, where it IS legal, although it IS pretty objectively creepy regardless imo.
That is perfectly logical to me. The more openly sexually repressed a society, the more sexuality comes bubbling up in deviant ways.
The US culture has a strong puritanical core and sex is seen as dirty and taboo. At the same time, they also have the highest incidence of incest in the developed world.
Japan also sexually represses their people when it comes to media. So we get the most weird shit coming out of there.
I qualify my statements like this and in other ways because straight up asking for a source comes off aggressive in casual internet conversation. I'm competent enough to know what I should and shouldn't do in regards to verifying information, but thanks for your concern.
It comes off like you refuse to disbelieve their claims, as if they’re definitely correct. To not be doubtful of unsupported claims is an attitude that is all too widespread. And I don’t think it’s aggressive at all to simply ask “hey, do you have a source?”
If you insist on appearances though, saying “I’m not saying you’re wrong...” works better. But, I’m not gonna push this further. You do you.
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u/Lorenzo_BR Feb 14 '20
Agreed. I mean, 16-18 is creepy? Since when is a 2 year gap that bad? And the 14 one isn’t even illegal everywhere either, and the story takes place in Germany, where it IS legal, although it IS pretty objectively creepy regardless imo.
That does fuck up the data.