Current Events > Is it me or does "pedo" feel like a buzzword most of the time?

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I've only ever seen it misused online. Even RL conservatives still use the word in its correct context (minus Republican politicians during election year).

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This moronic use of it is def one of the more common (mis)uses I've seen of it yeah

GhostFaceLeaks posted...

This is why you must always draw someone their age, art style be damned. If someone looks like a kid, they surely must be one and must be treated as such.

You mean those nitwits who claim that Hana Uzaki is "child-coded (what a dumb term)" because she's a short stack? The hell with them.

kind9 posted...

I find that most people who throw around the accusation of pedo willy-nilly are usually right-wing conservatives. And we all know what that means.

This. Anyone that doesn't kneel for Dear Leader Trump or King Elon gets called a pedo.

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it's always projection

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Which is absurd because it is one of the biggest accusations you can throw to a man.

It is the new political cheapshot, accuse someone of being one and they have to scramble around it. Even when proven innocent his reputation might be forever damaged.

Cynrascal posted...

Actually from my experience, it was nitwits that made up the Twitter Left (aka: The ones who bitch about everything and do nothing to fix things the more time consuming way) throwing out accusations towards artists and certain anime or anime as a whole. Kobayashi was a favorite target for those nitwits. It wasn't until later with trying to spread hate towards the gay and trans community that you see conservaderps hijacking the term.

Probably because almost every buzzword is being used to death and this one is one of the few left that still has weight.

And both sides can throw at each other unlike commie or nazi. Anime/Manga gets the most flak because Japan.

Luckily I'm safe to those cringe weirdos. I truly dislike most children lmao, will never have kids or work with them. But yeah people need to understand that adults, of all kinds, work with children and that's okay. Kids have to get therapy, get medical attention, get educated, and talk with adults all their lives. Being a safe adult that a vulnerable child can safely go to is important.

Cynrascal posted...

You mean those nitwits who claim that Hana Uzaki is "child-coded (what a dumb term)" because she's a short stack? The hell with them.

I mean she has the face of a child. The big head, big eyes and very small nose gives her a child-like face, it looks like someone drew the face a little girl on the body of an adult woman. A lot of it comes from the way anime characters are stylized and I can see why people think like that.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9892878b.jpg

Piplup_Sniper posted...

I mean she has the face of a child. The big head, big eyes and very small nose gives her a child-like face, it looks like someone drew the face a little girl on the body of an adult woman. A lot of it comes from the way anime characters are stylized and I can see why people think like that.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9892878b.jpg

that design looks absolutely fucking stupid

Like I said, they're nitwits. If they see a child, then that is on them and their skewed logic.

Goderator posted...

that design looks absolutely fucking stupid

it is, but I've never thought it looked like a child. It's basically just a Disney/Pixar design.

Link_of_time posted...

it is, but I've never thought it looked like a child. It's basically just a Disney/Pixar design.

no it isn't lol wtf

Link_of_time posted...

it is, but I've never thought it looked like a child. It's basically just a Disney/Pixar design.

Can you point to a single Disney/Pixar character with a similar design?

People in this topic arguing over a fictional 19 year old character in this topic is an example of it becoming a buzzword.

Goderator posted...

no it isn't lol wtf

So big head, big eyes, minimal facial features evoking baby like appearance hasn't been a common design feature in Disney since Little Mermaid?
ellis123 posted...

Can you point to a single Disney/Pixar character with a similar design?

You realize the above character's design is more than just boobs right? Massive eyes, larger head, simplified facial features have been standardize design for decades now.

Link_of_time posted...

You realize the above character's design is more than just boobs right? Massive eyes, larger head, simplified facial features have been standardize design for decades now.

You can just say "no." No need to get defensive.

ellis123 posted...

You can just say "no." No need to get defensive.

I accept your apology.

I feel people keep twisting the meaning of "pedo" to the point you get tweets like this that trend hard because it essentially calls people pedophiles for arbitrary reasons. And most of the time they ignore actual creeps online.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5cb0a34b.jpg

BernkastelWitch posted...

I feel people keep twisting the meaning of "pedo" to the point you get tweets like this that trend hard because it essentially calls people pedophiles for arbitrary reasons. And most of the time they ignore actual creeps online.

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Did this guy took the "height of consent" meme as a fact?

BernkastelWitch posted...

I feel people keep twisting the meaning of "pedo" to the point you get tweets like this that trend hard because it essentially calls people pedophiles for arbitrary reasons. And most of the time they ignore actual creeps online.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5cb0a34b.jpg

That Twitter user sure is something. The average height for a woman in America is 5 ft 3.5 in.

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There is a video on Facebook by one of those comedians, talking to a couple. He's like 45 and she's 23 and they started dating when she was 18. People in the comments are screaming about how he's a pedo and a groomer and all that crap. It bothers me how people who scream age of consent the loudest (and rightfully so) when it comes to underage, completely ignores it when the consenting parties are over the age of consent, and still insists on calling the older person a pedo groomer. Age of consent works both ways, and not when it's convenient. If you wanna claim age of consent when it comes to underage (rightfully so), because legalities, then STFU about it when age of consent isn't a factor, because legalities.

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Frankly I wasn't even talking about their boobs. I cannot come up with a single Pixar/Disney character that has that type of design at all, with the closest being an unflattering comparison to a DreamWorks one.

YellowSUV posted...

That Twitter user sure is something. The average height for a woman in America is 5 ft 3.5 in.

And by what I know, the average height of the Japanese is rather short, so chances are that they are just drawing what they see when it comes to height. I remember a meme about an asian girl having a somewhat similar body proportion of the character.

Most anime don't care about many of the appearances related to age. Depending at how simplistic is the artstyle, you can only know a character is 15 to 30 based on information given in the narrative.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/58ce0e80.jpg

This is a 17 year old.

StarFighters76 posted... There is a video on Facebook by one of those comedians, talking to a couple. He's like 45 and she's 23 and they started dating when she was 18. People in the comments are screaming about how he's a pedo and a groomer and all that crap. It bothers me how people who scream age of consent the loudest (and rightfully so) when it comes to underage, completely ignores it when the consenting parties are over the age of consent, and still insists on calling the older person a pedo groomer. Age of consent works both ways, and not when it's convenient. If you wanna claim age of consent when it comes to underage (rightfully so), because legalities, then STFU about it when age of consent isn't a factor, because legalities.

Is Leonardo de Caprio the one that gets mocked for this?

it's the western culture's Worst Thing You Can Be. the same way russian propaganda paints all oppositions and undesirables as drug addicts (something culturally horrific over there), propaganda paints people here as paedos. It inspires strong feelings of disgust at the sheer mention of it, and when a lie gets repeated often enough...

see: pizzagate, random names that are incredibly tenuously linked with epstein, anti-trans campaigning

Maybe this has nothing to do with the topic or I could be wrong with my line of thinking here but I feel like people like to throw the term pedo all willy nilly because it's more "effective" than accusing them of being something else.

Like people are less likely to fact check if the accusation is right or wrong, they just go along with it and ruin whoever is being accused. Idk

inTaCtfuL posted...

Maybe this has nothing to do with the topic or I could be wrong with my line of thinking here but I feel like people like to throw the term pedo all willy nilly because it's more "effective" than accusing them of being something else.

Like people are less likely to fact check if the accusation is right or wrong, they just go along with it and ruin whoever is being accused. Idk

It is because it is the heaviest accusation you can throw at. Nazi or Commie simply doesn't work anymore.

And I have genuine fear that this constant spam of the term might actually devalue its weight just like it happened with Nazi, all because people wants to play as keyboard witch hunters in the internet.

YellowSUV posted...

That Twitter user sure is something. The average height for a woman in America is 5 ft 3.5 in.

And Hana is like 4 ft 11 in and that's around the average height range for an Asian female. Bleach's Rukia Kuchiki is even shorter (4 ft. 9 in.).

Link_of_time posted...

So big head, big eyes, minimal facial features evoking baby like appearance hasn't been a common design feature in Disney since Little Mermaid?

You realize the above character's design is more than just boobs right? Massive eyes, larger head, simplified facial features have been standardize design for decades now.

The little mermaid doesnt look like that anime character. Sure, she has big eyes but theyre nowhere near as big as the anime girl, she has a partially defined nose and her head isnt bigger than her shoulders nor is it almost the size of her torso:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a349be2c.jpg

The way moe anime characters are stylized gives them a much more childlike face with their huge heads, eyes and almost non-existent noses.

Piplup_Sniper posted...

The little mermaid doesnt look like that anime character.

Never said she did. I said that Hana(anime for a large part) design shared the same design as Disney/Pixar
Piplup_Sniper posted...

The little mermaid doesnt look like that anime character. Sure, she has big eyes but theyre nowhere near as big as the anime girl, she has a partially defined nose and her head isnt bigger than her shoulders nor is it almost the size of her torso:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a349be2c.jpg

Ariels head is actually wider than her waist in the image, and is nearly the same size as her upper torso. it's also nearly the same size as her shoulders. She certainly has more definition to her nose which is a distinction between shared design.
Piplup_Sniper posted...

The way moe anime characters are stylized gives them a much more childlike face with their huge heads, eyes and almost non-existent noses.

I'm old enough to remember the conversations about Ariel's design and how it differed so much from Disney's prior works. The most notable thing was how big they made her eyes and head, to give her a child like appearance. Anime also did this with moe, but with even more simplification. We're looking at relatives of the same family tree.

I've been called a pedo at work before. It's a bit scary because some people want to use it to justify hurting someone they have a problem with.

The more a word is misused and abused the less meaning it has. Groomer for instance lost all meaning.

Certain people want to call everyone a pedo and actual pedophiles are okay with that as it makes it easier for them to like. Same with Nazis they want that work thrown around all over the place to the point where it means nothing. Easier to hide.

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Thats twice now in this topic where your immediate interpretation of something is of a sexual/romantic manner and I think thats part of the problem. One of the first things I thought of for this topic was people trying to associate Bidens sniffing and comments about being fond of children as sexual to try to make him seem pedo-like and one of the other issues Ive seen from the terminally online types are those that think any compliments on a kids appearance is sus.

The word has certainly lost a lot of its impact because of overuse. I hear someone call someone else that now and Im more likely to look down on the person using it than the person being accused.

My guess is that there is some Republican strategy involved to protect their own.

imagine606 posted...

My guess is that there is some Republican strategy involved to protect their own.

I don't think it is the case because it is looks like mostly a internet trend.

I still believe it is mostly Twitter people that are LARPing as paladins. Like some kind of late-stage zealotry where even people's height needs to be brought to question for a relationship like that twitter one.

012yArthur0 posted...

I don't think it is the case because it is looks like mostly a internet trend.

I still believe it is mostly Twitter people that are LARPing as paladins. Like some kind of late-stage zealotry where even people's height needs to be brought to question for a relationship like that twitter one.

Youre probably right, but I have noticed a trend of more conservative corners using the word a lot more lately.

Also, one of Karl Roves first campaigns he worked on was with a candidate that was known for being someone who worked with and helped kids around the community. He built an entire campaign successfully around saying the guy was a little too into helping the kids. It wound up winning the campaign for Roves guy and ruining the entire career of the other guy (also hurting kids he would have potentially helped in the process).

That one was a long time ago, but that stuff is weaponized politically, and its a shame, because there can also be kids who are victimized by it like in that case.

imagine606 posted...

Youre probably right, but I have noticed a trend of more conservative corners using the word a lot more lately.

Also, one of Karl Roves first campaigns he worked on was with a candidate that was known for being someone who worked with and helped kids around the community. He built an entire campaign successfully around saying the guy was a little too into helping the kids. It wound up winning the campaign for Roves guy and ruining the entire career of the other guy (also hurting kids he would have potentially helped in the process).

That one was a long time ago, but that stuff is weaponized politically, and its a shame, because there can also be kids who are victimized by it like in that case.

It is because it is extremely easy thing to accuse. Accusing someone like that already creates scorn and a knee-jerk revulsion that is hard to shake off because the weight of the accusation is so big that it warps back into "guilty until proven innocent" in the morality scale.

It looks like a extreme version of calling people "weird". Which people believed it worked until it didn't anymore.

That is why it is such preferred weapon in politics.

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Are you talking about something from before the hornyposting crackdown or you talking about the explicitly wholesome topic that you got modded for trying to imply offensive things about? Because Im assuming its the latter and stuff like that is part of the problem this topic is about. My last point was speaking in general about similar mentality Ive seen from the terminally online internet kind, not you in particular, but from Im seeing I wouldnt be surprised if you were like that too.

012yArthur0 posted...

Accusing someone like that already creates scorn and a knee-jerk revulsion that is hard to shake off because the weight of the accusation is so big that it warps back into "guilty until proven innocent" in the morality scale.

Friend of mine was accused of being a pedo. Bro is on the autism spectrum, and has a record of being naive to the point of it being a major concern. But once he defeats the accusations, he's never gonna have the same friends, gossip around him, and a great degree of social paranoia. Oh, and everyone second guessing him

012yArthur0 posted...

It is because it is extremely easy thing to accuse. Accusing someone like that already creates scorn and a knee-jerk revulsion that is hard to shake off because the weight of the accusation is so big that it warps back into "guilty until proven innocent" in the morality scale.

It looks like a extreme version of calling people "weird". Which people believed it worked until it didn't anymore.

That is why it is such preferred weapon in politics.

Youre not wrong at all, but its just such a despicable strategy. I can see it having really bad long-term effects too.

StarFighters76 posted...

There is a video on Facebook by one of those comedians, talking to a couple. He's like 45 and she's 23 and they started dating when she was 18. People in the comments are screaming about how he's a pedo and a groomer and all that crap. It bothers me how people who scream age of consent the loudest (and rightfully so) when it comes to underage, completely ignores it when the consenting parties are over the age of consent, and still insists on calling the older person a pedo groomer. Age of consent works both ways, and not when it's convenient. If you wanna claim age of consent when it comes to underage (rightfully so), because legalities, then STFU about it when age of consent isn't a factor, because legalities.

This kind of conversation gets into the dishonest territory for a multitude of reasons.

Because let's be honest WHY some end up with 18 year olds. Like let's be really real on the type of 43 years old person who was "pals" or "friends" with a 13, 14, 15 year old....., that same teen finally hit 18 and is therefore legal... and now they're dating. Let's not play dumb why some would see something like that and think the older man/woman was preying.

Let's not be coy that there are definitely some older men/women play into the "if only you were legal" or "just 2 more years and you're legal" category. And use the "well they're legal now" angle to dance around the heart of what people are pointing out.... which was you were definitely preying on an underage person waiting for that legal status.

I agree some words (not just pedo) have lost all meaning since some throw buzzwords around like it's going out of style. But on the flip side, some use the fact that buzzwords are overused to hide behind sus behavior.

imagine606 posted...

Youre not wrong at all, but its just such a despicable strategy. I can see it having really bad long-term effects too.

And there is some weird notion on society treating women far less harshly when they date young boys than when the genders are reversed. I think even South Park mocked this.

Thats why you see the accusations being far more frequent around men than women.

BernkastelWitch posted...

I feel people keep twisting the meaning of "pedo" to the point you get tweets like this that trend hard because it essentially calls people pedophiles for arbitrary reasons. And most of the time they ignore actual creeps online.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5cb0a34b.jpg

Isn't the average height of women like...5'4 or something?

Liking the majority of adult women is pedophilia according to this person.

Also where the hell is this person finding tons of 5'7 10 year olds?

In a just world, anyone who accused another person of pedophilia without strong evidence should be immediately jailed. Unfortunately, we live in a world where a twice impeached convicted felon was just reelected as President.

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Given that there's been a hornypost ban as well as the mods being strict on child sexualisation even before then, sounds like BS.