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Kathleen Lowrey's avatar

As an anthropologist, I can say that it is sadly unsurprising that this creep is an anthropology student. Anthropology has crawled very far up its own commitment to "making the strange familiar and the familiar strange". Anything that seems to invert normie values or perceptions is like catnip to anthropology in a way that has become simply shatteringly stupid.

They all think they are the heirs to Montaigne's essay "On Cannibalism" whilst producing an absolute ocean of "actually wearing hats on your head is a Western imperialist construct, before colonialism everyone wore hats on their bums" ludicrous bilge.

It's this sea in which "actually my ethnography of MYSELF rather than anyone else and my enthusiasm for child sexual abuse is the insightfulest and moast ethicalments" can happily burble and swim. it's beyond the emperor having no clothes -- it's a vocally fried uptalky insistence that actually? clothes? are an invented tradition? that never really? existed anywhere?

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Joseph Conner Micallef's avatar

I...I am going to defend the paper on masterbation. Kind of. Let's start with the obvious - the paper is stupid. I have zero clue what one can learn from this dudes jerk-off journal and honestly not nearly enough focus was placed on how voyeuristic and creepy it is to be reading this professional talk about cumming.

Part of what makes it so bad in my eyes is how interesting of an ethnographic topic Shota and Loli are! There's an amazing study here that just required some conversations - conversations that the author would have a much easier time arranging given that he himself is a Shotacon. This is a subject-area that is insanely stigmatized in virtually every country on Earth except for Japan. Why? What makes Japan different? Why are people Shota/Lolicons? Does it lead to real abuse? There's a million questions and literally everyone on Earth has something to share about it. And this paper didn't engage with the topic at all!

Frankly a piece ravaging CumBoy for being a Pedo can only happen because of how lazy the paper was. An actually interesting look into Shota/Lolicons would have actually addressed what makes it controversial and have SOME defense of it either by the author himself or via interviews with sex researchers, mental health providers, and Shota/Lolicons themselves. And it's a defense that's not even hard to make. This garbage research is just going to make the actually interesting work trying to understand this community harder, and that's the real loss.

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