{"id":1375,"date":"2009-07-26T11:27:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T03:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2009-07-26T11:51:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T03:51:32","slug":"new-york-times-love-in-2-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2009\/07\/26\/new-york-times-love-in-2-d\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: Love in 2-D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/26\/magazine\/26FOB-2DLove-t.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/26_nanaka.jpg\" style=\"width:400px; height:250px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Found a semi-interesting somewhat sensational NYT article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/26\/magazine\/26FOB-2DLove-t.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss\">2D love in Japan<\/a>. (You can get a login from <a href=\"http:\/\/bugmenot.com\">bugmenot.com<\/a>) There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/07\/23\/love-in-2d.html\">Boing Boing<\/a> blog post on it too. Predictably, it didn&#8217;t take long before commentators started to sound the paedophile alarm. Cue the righteous condemnations.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly speaking, this topic has been way overdone, though most of it in unintelligible babblings on 4chan and friends. But of course, &#8220;look at how weird Japan is&#8221; is always a favourite hail Mary for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/2008\/11\/cash-crunch-at-new-york-times-nyt-400-million-due-in-may\">desperate newspapers<\/a> on their death beds. There is some degree of irony in the fact that the article was written by the blogger of <a href=\"http:\/\/tokyomango.com\/\">TokyoMango<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I think we should all pray to God that he gets over his silly delusion&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> I think this Boing Boing comment sums up the whole thing perfectly. It&#8217;s interesting how 2D love is almost universally looked down upon with scorn or pity every time the topic is returned from the grave by yet another newcomer. Somehow, people&#8217;s brains shut down whenever the words &#8220;protect the children&#8221; show up, leading to massive groupthink exercises and delicious hypocrisies.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Nemu is just bad taste though.<\/p>\n<p>&#91; Read the original article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/26\/magazine\/26FOB-2DLove-t.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss\">New York Times<\/a> &#93;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found a semi-interesting somewhat sensational NYT article on 2D love in Japan. (You can get a login from bugmenot.com) There&#8217;s a Boing Boing blog post on it too. Predictably, it didn&#8217;t take long before commentators started to sound the paedophile &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2009\/07\/26\/new-york-times-love-in-2-d\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[827,325,826,51,107,825],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}