@DK, even if it wasn't BS, it still wouldn't justify any of the things that Zoe Quinn and seemingly any woman who has spoken out about it since have been put through, let's be honest. Stealing people's personal information, posting it online, and then sending them death/rape threats can never be justified. It wouldn't be justified to do it to Kim Jong Un, it wouldn't be justified to do it to head of Ubisoft, and it most certainly wouldn't be justified to do it to some random indie dev who made a browser game.
/rant of obviousness over.
Yeah, anyway, as I say, I dislike cheap sexualisation when it's plonked into things. Sex and sexuality can be a well utilised part of a story. FLCL would be a great example of this. Little, if not nothing, in FLCL serves to titillate, yet it uses sexual imagery and innuendo to other means (which probably explains how it can have that much sexual stuff and be a BBFC 12 rather than an 18) in terms of illustrating Naota's experiences of going through the awkwardness of hitting puberty.
On the other end of the spectrum you have stuff which is JUST cheap titillation, and, unless it can be seen to in some way be encouraging abuse, harassment, or assault, is completely fine. No one's going to watch it and be made to feel unnecessarily uncomfortable, because it does what it says on the tin.
The other thing, of course, is that there's nothing wrong with feeling an attraction to a fictional character, especially if they're not in a live action work. Characters work as characters because we think of them as people, even if we really know that they're not; and as a result people grow attached to them and may even start to feel a bit infatuated. There's a reason there are so many fangirls on fanfiction websites in love with Eddy Mocking or whoever, and that's fine. Other people might think it's weird, but it's their mind, and nobody has the right to play the thought police.
but that was a loooooong time ago.
