The Loli Controversy

So for the past year or so that I’ve had to write about this, there has always been a bit of controversy surrounding both DarlingStrawb and her husband Rev_says_desu. The last thing that I wrote was from January. So to catch everyone up, Rev is a vtuber who is solely a reactionary vtuber, by that I mean he reacts to what streamers talk about politically and culturally, for the most part he’s a grifter. His wife used to to ASMR stuff and then decided to convert to Christianity, because her husband is also Christian.

Now I said in the last post that they were fake Christians, mainly because and I’ll be blunt, they wasted time in talking about someone who said fuck ICE and then locked their replies so they weren’t going to get harassed by people. Personally, and it might be my age and the fact that I spent most of my young adult life being very angry and opinionated but what people do isn’t my business. I block people if it becomes too much of a hassle and will reprimand people because I do not like people using the faith that I have been baptized in and raised in like it’s some kind of fad. That pisses me off. Because you can tell someone who is fake and true by the nature of their fruits.

Of course this was before I decided that I would try to get confirmed and actually make it a point to go to Mass. I don’t know, I feel called back to the Catholic Church.

It’s not like I haven’t seen a lot of Fuck ICE posts, have made them and I’m the granddaughter of a German immigrant who would have been picked up by ICE despite being a green card holder and having a reprieve because his wife passed away if he were still alive. And even then I’ve just rolled my eyes at people and moved on with my life. It’s not hard and I would rather focus on other things.

The other thing that Rev is known for is having a loli vtuber model. Basically loli is a body type representing either petitie girls or women who are short and are flat chested. They also look relatively young. Which let’s face it there are real women that do fit that description. Now what they both collectively talked about was being against porn which is lolicon for girls and shotacon for boys. People took that to mean that they are also pro-censorship.

Strawb instead clarified that she’s not pro-censorship. She basically said that Christians should be against porn of all kinds. Basically, porn goes against everything that a Christian stands for in their beliefs. Because for Christians it leads you to lust and then cheat on your spouse. Lust is one of the seven deadly sins and cheating goes against the Ten Commandments which falls under the Law of Agape. She said that she wasn’t going to force her beliefs on someone else. Which I actually agree with.

And honestly, while I am a horrendously lapsed Catholic, that is exactly how a Christian should and need to be. The whole thing with something being against your spiritual beliefs is that it only affects you. There is nothing wrong with a Christian stepping away and saying, not for me. You shouldn’t impose it on other people. Because Jesus didn’t impose on other people. I think it was in the Book of Matthew that people refused to hear him and he decided to just dust his shoulders off and moved on. He didn’t force people to listen to him which is something that is lost on Christians.

In all honesty, I don’t like porn myself nor any NSFW content. Literally the only NSFW stuff that I have commissioned wasn’t nudity or sex scenes but pinups of my characters wearing lingerie. It was drawn in a tasteful manner and left a lot to the imagination. Porn honestly gives me the creeps, I don’t know why. But I’m not going to impose that on anyone or force people to think or do things a certain way.

I’ll give an example. I don’t like partaking in any gossip and feel really uncomfortable about it especially if the other person wants me to make a judgement on someone. When I worked at Target someone did try to get me to do that and I said, “sorry that goes against my beliefs.” They got upset and I clarified that I can’t take part in this discussion. I’m not going to not only disrespect Jesus, and I’m not going to disrespect my grandmother who passed away five years ago.

Like I said, I’m a lapsed Catholic. I can agree with DarlingStrawb’s statement because honestly the only person who is sinless is Jesus Christ. She’s not sinless. I’m not sinless. It’s not on us to tell people what to do. While yes we are called to lead people to Christ but you have to remember the old addage: You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink. You can’t force people to believe in the same as you. There is such a thing as a boundary and ultimately you have to respect it.

What Darlingstrawb said wasn’t controversial. I think ultimately the only controversy is Rev’s avatar being that he is a male but has a loli avatar which is a female, and before he used the avatar of a female character from one of the idol anime. I don’t know which one. I’m not familiar with it. I think ultimately that’s when you throw in the towel, commission a new model that’s not so…creepy.

The other thing is people try to use her past against her. I want to assume that she’s a recent Catholic convert and the thing with Catholicism is that it’s a never ending journey of repentence. You have sinned, you are seeking to change your ways and gain absolution for your sins and the only way to do that is not only believe but also do the work. It’s a lifelong commitment and if she’s serious about that journey then that is all that matter.

Because we are all sinner. Jesus died for our sins but that doesn’t mean that sin has stopped. We still have to put in the work to ensure that we are truly like Jesus because God is testing us to ensure that we are. To be a Christian means to be Christ-like. The only way that we can be like Christ is to repent and work on absolving ourselves and sinning no more so that we can be sinless. At least that’s what I think.

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