Who had "sex trafficking at Comic Con" on today's bingo card?
@WordsmithFL There is a disturbing number of people ok with hentai depicting children with the anime and comic events. It's colored my view of anime and comics.
@AnnetteTRemain I've been around the con scene since the 1980s. It's always been there. Certain authors were rumored to be stalking underaged girls.
@WordsmithFL I loved comics as a kid. I don't want to be anywhere near it now and don't want to see anime. I admit I judge. Fans should have killed all that if they didn't want the art questioned. And it was really bad on X. I don't like the sexing on kids. It lowers peoples inhibitions, normalizes behavior, and conditions and encourages people to act.
@AnnetteTRemain I just remembered that Cas Anvar got fired from "The Expanse" because he was hitting on underaged girls at cons.
I remember older male authors hitting on young women.
And, to be honest, some young women flirting with personalities hoping to get picked up.
I had a stalker follow me at a couple cons. She was a married woman who wanted me to have an affair with her. I said no. I stopped going to cons because of her.
@WordsmithFL I condemn it just like I condemn Michael Jackson, Gérard Depardieu, Woody Allen. If I found some old comic of spiderman in a antique shop I might look at it but I won't have anything to do with the comic world or japanese anime. They make it acceptable and push the lie that beating off to a comic depicting rape or underage makes one safer than people who don't.