If pretend crippled, bloody gals make a man happy, that’s his, and her, business. When they take it out in public, whew, that’s everyone’s business.

And imagine if some otaku approaches an actual cripple and wants to take her picture. That’s scary.

My view on life is “Have fun, harm none.” When does that line get crossed or gets close to getting crossed? When does a private fetish become public?

It may be because I, personally, like the whole bandaged/bruised/bloody look, that I believe that these otaku most likely know the difference between fantasy and reality. A girl dressing up in bandages for fetishistic reasons is one thing, but but when a girl is actually wearing a cast because she needs to I think there’s a real difference in the way that it’s viewed.

Of course, there are always those few otaku who really can’t tell the difference between their fantasy and reality, and those are the scary ones who ruin it for the rest of us! (I have known my share like that…) But most of them are likely decent guys with strange hobbies.

What I think it comes down to is, even with certain things in the otaku culture getting more publicity these days, such as the kegadoru thing, is that what one person finds attractive in the bedroom is harmless to the rest of us.

I don’t know, I may be way off base with this one, but that’s just my two cents.

I loved the article, by the way.

But I really do believe that this is a bad thing. Not the end o’ the world, not the end of anime, but a bad trend.

I don’t think women wearing glasses are weak. I wear contacts/ glasses and I can take care of myself. So do the majority of my friends and family. However, if I were to crawl inside the head of one of these otaku, I imagine that their thought process is similar to what I previously stated. Scary places, the inside of otaku heads, which is why I seldom go there.

To be frank, I really don’t see how this fad is worse than any of the others mentioned in terms of objectifying women/stunting social skills. I don’t see how it’s any less realistic or silly than being a maid, for one; very few houses have maids, and I imagine that the type described here aren’t just the cleaning but the ‘full service’ kinds with the ‘welcome home, master’ and all.

On a side note, though, what’s with ranking meganekkos below maids and lolis on the weakness scale? That’s how it sounded anyway. I think that glasses can also give off an air of class and intelligence – it’s not all “I can’t see without my glasses, oh no, save me” or whatever. But that’s just a personal taste of mine, so maybe I work harder defending it.