Quote Originally Posted by lezard21 View Post
This is exactly the same line of thought 90's moms had when anime that was advertised as Teen or Mature had to recolor their blood green and call it sweat, or have Dragon Ball dub sending villains to "the next dimension" under fear that their children might become drug abusing psychopaths. It turned out TV was not a nanny nor a replacement for parenting.

Well, got news for you millenial mom. The internet is also not a nanny nor a replacement for parenting.
Um, I never advocated or asked anyone to "protect the children".

I said, I believe, very specifically, that this game is ESRB rated "Teen" and that comes with certain expectations and general rules. And you can choose to break them and generally people won't care. But if you got busted for breaking the rules, you deal with the consequences.

You DID read my posts right?

I'll try to break it down for you:

A) If I somehow took my kids to a stripper club or a "hedonist" beach, I would be an absolute idiot (and a Karen), were I to complain about topless women or sexual goings-on, yeah? Basically what idiots did when they complained about Deadpool not being a kids' movie. I assume we agree there.

B) If I took my kids to a family friendly beach or a hamburger shop which advertised as being for children I would be within my rights to complain about people getting it on in front of everyone, or topless waitresses. I mean, there's a reason Hooters goes as close to that line as they can without crossing it.

To your anime example: you do realize that there are broadcasting rules which determine age ratings, and that certain channels (Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, etc) were trying to lock in a specific after-school-teenage demographic, yes? And at that time if they decided to keep certain aspects and bump up the rating it would have been a huge problem for their sponsors/advertisers, etc? It was a lot less about Karens than it was straight cash money.