One of my friends recently lost his Google account to the internet police. He was suspended for sharing pictures with what Google deemed “unacceptable exploitation of minors”. I say “what Google deemed” because, having seen the images through another outlet... he exploited nobody. The picture was simply of cartoon boys showing nothing that anime doesn't show even to this day.

Drawings of children in innocent situation are turned over to the Sentinels of Silicon Valley and turned over as signs that someone should be arrested. Never mind that if the worst cases were to happen to an actual child, Twitter's former management would protect the offending user and simply hide the evidence to the masses. Actual pedophiles get more support than those who simply draw art the mob finds unacceptable.

Speaking of Twitter, as a response to a hostile takeover by Elon Musk, the website is losing countless users due to Musk's mismanagement. The target of their migration is Mastodon, a website that recently had to go private because of a sudden influx of new users. This is notable because Mastodon hosts Baraag, one of the last remaining places artwork of these characters in such states is available. No photography is allowed on the site by any means, and users must be 18 to enter.

I say “last remaining” because Pixiv was recently taken over by MasterCard, and given their history with Patreon and how they forced users who draw artwork of drawn children to close doors, it's likely the same will happen to the website as a whole. MasterCard, an American company, is dictating the policies of Pixiv, a Japanese company. The cultural imperialism issue would write itself if history wasn't written by the winners.

So where do I fall in this?

I'm not here to discuss the ethics of loli/shota artwork. I have my own feelings about them, but that's a discussion for another day. Regardless of how I see it, it's undeniable that it's better to draw one's feelings on paper rather than act one's feelings on flesh. The mob seems to have the opposite viewpoint, where movies like Cuties get glowing praise despite a longer-than-necessary sexual dance scene, but smaller, nonsexual scenes in films like The Tale of Princess Kaguya are called to be banned for all ages, even adults.

And yet, the mob rules.

Recently on at least one website, I asked people to submit scenes of cartoon boys in situations suitable for a Role Reversal from 2016 onward. They were unable to find any. They've even taken away the ability for boys to be put in these comical situations that have been part of common humor around the whole world for generations. That's not based on a desire to protect them; the desire to denigrate the male and protect the female works its way through much more insidious ways now, making female characters invincible and male characters universally unsuccessful.

This cannot stand.

I encourage as many people to protest this cultural imperialism, both on a global and historical scale. This isn't about silly juvenile comedy; it never was. It always was and still is about one side getting an unfair advantage when it comes to treatment. I want both sides to be treated as equals, but what we're getting is equal levels of disadvantage, if that. The poisonous fruits of their labor are coming up ripe.

Stop protecting one side from disadvantage and making one side the butt of every joke. Stop protecting drawings while leaving real children to be harmed. Stop imposing your culture on others to make no place to hide from your tyranny. And for those reading, don't let this continue. Fight back.

Because when the pendulum swings again, the females will most likely be put back where they started before feminism.

Nothing would make me sadder.

Reposted from arcroyale