If you look at this picture, you're going to hell.

I’m not usually one to call moe fans “creepy” or “sexist.” However, while browsing Twitter earlier today, I came across this little gem.

Moe girls are like the template of the perfect female. If a 3D girl is not similar enough to a moe girl than that means she is bad news.

I won’t dignify the person who wrote this with a link to their profile. Suffice to say, they’re one of the ‘moe cultists’ I mentioned in passing at the end of my “Type A vs. Type B” post. For brevity’s sake, I will refer to this person as Anonymous Moe Cultist, or AMC, as he’s the textbook example of the fandom’s extremist fringe. He has an innate hatred of critics and intellectuals (especially those who criticize “his shows”), and frequently targets reviewers from this very website for ridicule. His views on women are similarly unpalatable.

Moe girls are ideas. Aoi Sakuraba is the moefication of Yamato Nadeshiko. Critics get upset and angry at these ideas rather than the content

Ergo, in AMC’s view, real women should learn to be more like their sexualized and submissive moe counterparts. They should smile, giggle, wait hand-and-foot on their man, and never talk back. And he wonders why people like me get upset at these archaic, sexist declarations?

This raises an interesting question. If moe produces this kind of blatantly sexist fan, does that make the genre itself sexist? I mean, it IS centered around the objectification of women, often with gratuitous fanservice. A quick look at Sankaku Complex makes it apparent that these prepubescant girls are seen as objects of sexual worship, not people. Should we shun moe shows for something more politically correct?

The answer is NO. Despite initial appearances, moe is NOT sexist. Find out why after the break.

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