Do overtly sexual characters really have a place in children's cartoons? What's the need?
Do overtly sexual characters really have a place in children's cartoons? What's the need?
develop standards
please stop being a faggot.
Yes they do, there would be exactly zero issues with Lola if she was an actual character who fit in with Looney Tunes and not just a killjoy that the desexualized later anyway
Sure, despite what some adults think, kids love it
Kids can love lots of things but that doesn't mean everything's good for them.
Do overtly sexual characters really have a place in children's cartoons?
Sure, kids love that stuff.
I sure loved it when I was a kid.
Cartoons aren't good for kids either, so you might as well not make any of them at all.
And look at that, it seems the industry agrees with you, you go anon!
Early exposure to sexuality for kids is well documented to be unhealthy. Early exposure to cartoons has no such effect.
Totally! When I was a 10-year old boy, I couldn't fucking believe they had the audacity to put an attractive animated girl in movie. I was so upset. That just isn't okay.
I wish I had media like Adolescence around to tell me how evil I was for finding females attractive
Early exposure to cartoons has no such effect.
Blatantly untrue, early exposure to cartoons leads to mental illnesses never-before-seen.
STOP TELLING MY WIFE'S SON TO LIKE WOMEN REEEEEEEEE
Just say you're gay
You would love it if the sexualized character was a flaming homo
Your claim has as much strength as arguing video games cause violence. Almost everyone alive in the US today watched cartoons as a kid.
Yea, and the modern US is full of fucking basketcases and drug addicts, you're making my point for me.
Most US citizens have also seen movies, listened to music and eaten different types of foods. Pin down what about cartoons directly causes mental illness when it's something everyone is exposed to.
There's a difference between a sexy cartoon woman vs a creepy uncle showing his porn collection to his nephew
And there's a difference between a pretty cartoon woman and a overly sexual cartoon woman with frequent ass and tit shots. I only see issue with one being in media for children.
My uncle is John K :(
And that is why no boys are interested in the cartoons your kind produces.
Little boys don't watch non-sexual kids cartoons? Is that really a claim you're sticking to?
I said boys, not little boys.
Believe it or not, boys don't just stop existing once they hit age 7.
1. Art isn’t about what’s bare minimum necessary.
2. Boys like sexy girls and there’s nothing wrong with gently and harmlessly indulging that. It helps prepare them for real life.
3. Cross appeal to adults is a good thing.
In closing, fuck you, stop turning cartoons into sterile, inhuman, sexless garbage when you’re not pushing your latest sexual politic talking point.
overtly sexual
We really have regressed as a culture for the idea of an attractive woman being seen as overtly sexual.
Do overtly sexual characters really have a place in children's cartoons?
Do homosexual ones?
What's hilarious about the OP pic is that it's from literally decades ago, because typical cartoons these days are so devoid of any and all sexuality that you can't even find a convincing example from something more contemporary, essentially nullifying the thread's premise right out the gate.
The most popular thing I can think of that boys today like is Skibidi Toilet. What sexual tones are drawing boys to Skibidi Toilet?
The most popular thing I can think of that boys today like is Skibidi Toilet.
You must not know much about boys, especially boys older than 8.
In fact, I doubt you yourself are a boy, or if you are you're definitely autistic.
Skibidi has waifus.
I'll wait for your counter-point.
Skibidi has pretty (as pretty as a TV head can be at least) females. That's not inherently sexual and the people that do sexualize those characters are adults.
HUMAN BEINGS ARE SEXUAL CREATURES
HETEROSEXUALITY IS BY FAR THE NORM AND WHERE WE ALL CAME FROM
YES IT’S NECESSARY BECAUSE LIFE ISN’T A FUCKING AMBIEN COMMERCIAL OR A DRAG QUEEN SHOW
YES I MAD
You can call it whatever you want, boys like waifus.
The most popular thing I can think of that boys today like is Skibidi Toilet.
Huh?
You must be talking exclusively about white boys.
Among boys of all races the most popular stuff I see is stuff like Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, Dragonball, all that typical shonen stuff for tweens, and they all have plenty of fanservice.
These days boys tend to go straight from preschool stuff and Spongebob to action shows with big, over-the-top fight scenes and hot women.
Boys will get it anyway, only instead of safely appreciating the female form in the context of a film they’ll be watching whatever fucked up porn their algorithm comes up with.
Why deny harmless pleasantries? They make money, they don’t hurt people. The only reason they went away in the first place is you listened to grifting crazy women who hate little boys and who you’re making the cartoon for. Just ignore them.
White boys also watch anime you guys are just talking about two different age groups.
Well I've always been talking about boys over the age of 6-7, no shit little 3 year olds aren't interested in action shows or hot girls and the like because they're little babies, but boys 7 and up absolutely are.
Hell, I had my first kiss when I was 6 with a girl who was also 6, this idea that boys aren't interested in girls at all until they hit like 14 and until then they definitely don't want to see any hot women in anything they watch is absolutely fucking retarded.
There needs to be a modern word better than "mass hysteria" or whatever for societal/psychological/physical maladys coincidentally "starting" after televised news started and TVs became ubiquitous
True
teen cartoons should be allowed to be sexy.
Doesn't matter, anime girls are always hotter anyway.
It ensures kid grow up straight.
Be cool instead of lame. Sexy girls are cool.
Sexy girls are cool.
The truth that people who make cartoons just don't want to accept.
Sex sells even to boys. George Lucas had Ahsoka's design changed to better appeal to 12 year old boys.