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Defending porn would actually be a good issue for Democrats to take up if they had any hope to be credible about it. The problem is that there's too much history of feminists attacking porn (don't bring up sex positive feminists, the difference between them is that sex negatives are against making porn and sex positives are against men watching porn), too much history (10 years plus) of left wingers agitating against busty women in videogames and too much history of democrats loving heavy handed content moderation.
Pornhub lost mastercard and visa in 2020 due to an article written by a journalist who wanted to use that as a springboard for his gubernatorial run, as a democrat.
I have seen a few ads out there recently that are clearly right-coded and anti-porn, usually treating it as a personal failing (addiction). I don't think there are that many "porn is a great thing, actually" advocates out there, and most that exist are probably left-of-center by a decent margin.
I could see the median male voter being both a consumer of the, uh, content, but also thinking it should be less accessible. Not high confidence in that, though.
I would prefer there to be less goonslop in mainstream purely based on aesthetics. It's like the reverse of the "characters must be shapeless agender blobs" trend, and the reverse of the bad thing is not always the good thing.
No, Hestia does not have to be a generic big titty asian girl.
Yeah, but I would rather her be that than the other alternative.
Disagreed. Not every character has to be eye candy. Or white.
"Not every room in my house needs to be aesthetically pleasing! Where's the variety? Where's the tension? If every room in my house is painted pleasant colours, I will take aesthetic pleasure for granted and I won't appreciate those rooms as much! That's why I painted my living room traffic cone orange with bright pink molding."
Also I don't know why you would assume a Japanese production with Japanese artists working in a Japanese style would make a white character, but they didn't. She's mukokuseki.
Edit: lol that was you calling her a big tiddy Asian girl, so I think even you know you're being reductive.
There's a difference between being aesthetically pleasing and everything made out of diamond blocks or the equivalent. There is nuance between making everyone the same hot woman with minor variations and making everyone blobs. For the record, I think Hades II achieves that nuance decently.
Hyperpalatable aesthetics is the mcdonalds of art. I like some mcdonalds every once in a while, I don't want to eat it all the time. And not just because it's unhealthy.
TIL the word for "basically white, or close enough that dark skin-fearing consumers won't raise a fuss".
That's a pretty good argument, but I can't shake the feeling that there is something deeper to your complaint. There is an undercurrent of resentment to your position that twists the perspective you are arguing, not necessarily in your case, although that isn't to rule it out. In particular -
Is an ironic inversion of the argument against mukokuseki in the early days of the idpol ascension, which was that mukokuseki was the word for 'Japanese but not so Japanese it upsets white people.' Either way it's white supremacy?
Maybe in the early days of idpol the white skin enjoyers were against Japanese but now it looks as if it got a big injection of "le based feminine Asian waifu" people. Either way, it's going to be the kind of people who complain that, checks list, Ghost of Yotei's protagonist does not look like a jade beauty, or Aphrodite's cheekbones too sharp 3/10, and I think that kind of grievance is retarded and annoying, and the grievance of those who want token rep of every ethnicity, gender and disability under the sun is also retarded and annoying.
Just make characters with character. Supergiants' Hestia has character, Asian Hestia doesn't, at a glance.
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