Anonymous
7/5/2025, 4:26:16 PM
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The flat epidemic
I never see anyone discuss this, even amidst all the constant culture wars on /co/, so let's try to have a reasonable discussion about this.
I don't care about lesbians in cartoons and whatnot, but one thing that keeps bugging me is how, in the animation released in the last decade, the female characters are often not allowed to have boobs. There are a few exceptions, but for the most part, it's all either sticks or shortstacks, with flat or really small chests.
Now I'm an ass person more than a boobs person, but this still feels kinda wrong to me. It's fine if there are SOME flat characters, but when it's being done so much it starts to feel like deliberate censorship.
I've been thinking about potential reasons for this and right now I think it has to be a mix of these three factors:
>1) female writers and artists in Hollywood are insecure about their boob size and try to make it a non-factor in their work, creating a perfect fictional world where they will never be judged for having small boobs
>2) it's part of the effort to dilute gender barriers in order to homogenize products as much as possible; if you pretend boobs don't exist then you can focus on sexualizing asses on both males and females and erase gender differences; depending on how schizo you want to get this can feed into the trans movement or trying to turn all the males gay or whatever but I think it's primarily about trying to slowly erase the concept of a gendered target demographic
>3) good ol' American puritanism, this is readily accepted in part because many out-of-touch business people in the industry still think kids' media should be sanitized as much as possible because that's how it was 50 years ago when they were kids
Do you anons think I'm onto something? Do you have any explanations of your own for this?
I don't care about lesbians in cartoons and whatnot, but one thing that keeps bugging me is how, in the animation released in the last decade, the female characters are often not allowed to have boobs. There are a few exceptions, but for the most part, it's all either sticks or shortstacks, with flat or really small chests.
Now I'm an ass person more than a boobs person, but this still feels kinda wrong to me. It's fine if there are SOME flat characters, but when it's being done so much it starts to feel like deliberate censorship.
I've been thinking about potential reasons for this and right now I think it has to be a mix of these three factors:
>1) female writers and artists in Hollywood are insecure about their boob size and try to make it a non-factor in their work, creating a perfect fictional world where they will never be judged for having small boobs
>2) it's part of the effort to dilute gender barriers in order to homogenize products as much as possible; if you pretend boobs don't exist then you can focus on sexualizing asses on both males and females and erase gender differences; depending on how schizo you want to get this can feed into the trans movement or trying to turn all the males gay or whatever but I think it's primarily about trying to slowly erase the concept of a gendered target demographic
>3) good ol' American puritanism, this is readily accepted in part because many out-of-touch business people in the industry still think kids' media should be sanitized as much as possible because that's how it was 50 years ago when they were kids
Do you anons think I'm onto something? Do you have any explanations of your own for this?
