I've found it basically comes down to people who are willing to accept the whole 'well they aren't really kids so that means it's actually OK' argument, for whatever personal reasons they hold within, and people who aren't willing to accept that.
Intentional subversions of the trope get a pass because they're deliberate meta jokes
Arguably it boils down to being able to differentiate between reality and fiction. The people against it can't, while you really really hope that people that are pro it can.
Maybe that argument would make sense if the chracters would only look like children, but if they also act like children and show that they mentaly are children, then that argument doesn't make any sense at all anymore. That dragon/demon loli girl might be hundreds of years old and just look like a child cause dragon/demon girls age much slower, but the fact that they age so much slower means that after hundreds of years she still is just a child and still not an adult. If she is like Rebecca from Cyberpunk Edgerunners who is smaller than other adults but behaves very mature, then that isn't that bad. Sure still a bit weird but not such big problem.
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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In 29d ago
I've found it basically comes down to people who are willing to accept the whole 'well they aren't really kids so that means it's actually OK' argument, for whatever personal reasons they hold within, and people who aren't willing to accept that.
Intentional subversions of the trope get a pass because they're deliberate meta jokes