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Originally Posted by Mako Crab

Granted, but that's a totally different issue. We're talking about sexist portrayals of the characters, not how fans latch onto them. If you want to argue that some fans obsess over a character, and ogle them one frame of animation at a time, then I'll happily agree. There are those people out there. But that's not what we're talking about.


This is what I find frustrating. You make a statement and then offer no backing. Examples? Evidence? Anything? WHY does age have everything to do with it? Because a sexist portrayal of Wilykit would be pedophilia? If they were trying to present Wilykit in an over-sexualized way, you might have a point. But they don't.
If they were presenting Wilykit as helpless and inferior to her brother, that'd be a different kind of sexism that would exclude pedophilia. Not all sexism is about the characters being exploited as sex objects. But again, Wilykit is presented as competent, capable, and every bit the female counterpart to her brother. Her portrayal is not sexist.

Again, WHY is age the damning variable here? If Wilykit were in her 20s and she were being portrayed in a sexist manner, it would still be considered sexist and bad.


No, I think it's even more important to examine the kinds of messages that the mass media are sending to young, highly impressionable children (the real target audience of this show). Just that in this particular case, I don't see any cause for alarm.

So. . . agree to disagree?

but you're right age has nothing to do with it, and as I've stated before.

[QUOTE]Sorry I know I went a bit off the trail there.
But where this whole discussion started and where I want to bring it back to.
Is the intentions of the creators and artists.
And as I've stated before I do not see them trying to sell Wilykit.
They treat her as a normal little kid, with a bit of cat in their of course.
Both she and Wilykat are needed in the team.
One for appealing to more ages, and also to have different outlooks on situations being younger.
Being a little teeny bit of comic relief, but that category mostly falls to snarf I think.
They don't even play up the cute kitten aspect of the two much.
The creators take them seriously as characters.
And so unless in new episodes, more blatant fan service arises.
I have to say that I think the creators did a good job, with Wilykit and her outfit.[QUOTE]

and I really wonder myself why Autotrooper, As such a big problem with this?
as you are thinking in terms of pedophilia, at least that's what seems like to me.
As where, myself and Mako Crab are talking about her outfit and how she is
Portrayed.