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Aug 19, 2002, 12:55pm

Dude, learn how to quote correctly (still); all these extra blank lines are unnecessary. I've had to remove them yet again...

[View Quote] [View Quote] Thank you for proving my point: sex sells; hence, it's a major anime component.

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> Well dur, I knew you weren't talking about flat-out sex. So much for
> extrapolating. As for violence, I suppose next you'll tell me that
> Looney Tunes is rife with violence! "My God, it's poisoning our
> children! When will it end?!" :P Give me a break.

I'm hardly the first person to make a case for violence in cartoons--it's a well-known fact there is an excessive amount of it. <shrug> I shouldn't have to mention video/computer game violence either but I will just to support my point even more.

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> I'm agreeing that sex and violence can be found in lots of anime in
> varying degrees. But that doesn't mean it's the "biggest" component. If
> you made the argument that sex and violence are part of Japanese
> culture, which is really the biggest component of anime, then maybe
> you'd have a case.

Um...I've already made that argument (which you proved above), silly. <chuckle> Might want to take a critical thinking class, Goob...your logic is severely lacking.

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> See above.

ditto

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> So then, anime isn't "all" about sex and violence either, meaning sex
> and violence isn't the biggest component. I never said Hollywood doesn't
> have its share of sex and violence, but S & V isn't its BIGGEST
> component any more than it's anime's.

Sure it is; sex and violence sells. Here are various links:
http://borgman.enquirer.com/gallery2/tvrating_gallery.html (cartoon satire)
http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/media/violab.html (violence research)
http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/media/porno1.html (pornography--sex research)
http://www.probe.org/docs/sex-viol.html (sex and violence on TV)
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/stats/issvio.htm (Media Issues: Media Violence)

I could go on all day listing links to studies, research, basic common facts, etc, etc, but I'm only going to go so far to prove the point to you--if you don't get it already, you're even more clueless than I first suspected. <shrug>

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> I could ask the same about you...

Huh? I've BEEN CONTINUALLY proving my points while you have not.

> At any rate, all I'm saying is you can't paint anime with such a broad
> brush any more than you can do it to Hollywood. Then again, I suppose if
> you truly believe what you're saying, that might explain a lot of
> things, since you apparently must avoid all forms of entertainment. ;P

No, I just avoid the stupid forms--of course stupidity is relative but if you can't see how sex and violence are mainstays/staples/integral components to media (anime or otherwise), YOU are the one who apparently must avoid all entertainment forms...

Don't bother replying unless you can actually back up what you spew, please. I tire of "debating" with you.

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