on the topic of racism and antis: a way anti-japanese racism manifests is assuming japanese people are inherently more “sexually deviant” or even “pedophilic”. otaku antis assume Any anime character is made for people to get off to, and that Anyone who draws in an “anime art style” is drawing a child… there’s a connection there
from wikipedia:
The Yellow Peril (also the Yellow Terror and the Yellow Specter) is a racial color metaphor that depicts the peoples of East and Southeast Asia[a] as an existential danger to the Western world.[2]
The seductive Asian man (wealthy and cultured) was the common White male fear of the Asian sexual “other.” The Yellow Peril sexual threat was realized by way of successful sexual competition, usually seduction or rape, which rendered the woman a sexual untouchable.
As a cultural representation of voracious Asian sexuality, the Dragon Lady is a beautiful, charming woman who readily and easily dominates men. For the White man, the Dragon Lady is the sexual Other who represents morally degrading sexual desire.
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