It matters not what you want, because no matter what every action has the same outcome. You only try to delay the inevitable or deny its very happening.
The more innocent they are the more satisfying is the corruption. Still it's kinda sad to see an innocent character being violated.
That's internet for you
But still is it just because she got an educational purpose, people decided to make her "pure as much as possible" ?, What about other H-doujin based on other Anime Character, or does anyone feel upset when they got sexually depicted, does parents decided to not buy the Toy later ?, I think it's simply because of our perspective in (strict ?) educational that everything related to it should not be stained. Though I think it quite an unnecessary worry since unless kids actively look up the internet just for one character in the text book rather than playing games other than that it is us (let's accept it, at this point being a Danboorian, you know how you are and how looking for H-doujin work) who may be have too much concerns over some UNIMPORTANT CHARACTER IN A TEXT BOOK whose image just being use in a different purposes.
I understand your concerns. However, as someone who has seen this thing played out numerous times over the years and have been on both sides at some point (one side for much longer than the other), it's really not something you should really worry about because ultimately the people who are going to use this as evidence against the otaku community don't actually really care about improving anything at all about it. They're going to use any and all evidence they can against it, no matter how small or ultimately insignificant it is in the long run.
Even if the Japanese side pulls a Safety Wrap Up similar to what bronies did years ago that actually managed to help remove any NSFW pony art from google so kids wouldn't accidentally run into it, they will still be whining about how the otaku community are a bunch of perverts or whatever.
You say that the otaku don't care about whether or not Ellen Baker is supposed to be an educational tool--I'd wager to bet that the people on the other side of the debate don't care either. A number of them maybe but they're all more concerned about pointing out how otaku are degenerates than whether or how to figure out how to help parents filter this sort of stuff out so their kids don't stumble upon it.
I mean even with the artist's own request to tone down this sort of stuff, there's still going to be a number of people who won't, even if the Japanese are more likely to respect their request. There is really so much anybody can do outside of restricting the internet to North Korea levels.
As for stereotypes... well. People are going to use stereotypes against groups all the time for all sorts of reasons. They're not going to care about anything else or even if said group is "improving." There's not much you can do about people who simply refuse to think beyond stereotypes, they'll just use any instance of it so they can reinforce their ideals instead of challenging them and risk discovering the fact that they maybe wrong about something. It doesn't even have to be something big they are wrong about.
Again, I get where you're coming, it's just there is really very little that can be done about stereotypes, regardless of how much truth they have. Even if the community is shit... very little can be done to improve it besides from you being the better person. Unless you're really, really charismatic there's not much you can do to "change" internet communities. At least, you can't really force them to change.
I suspect another issue is that people are more than whatever labels they wear. Even if someone claims to be a proud otaku, there is more than them to being an otaku, even if they are rarely aware of it. A person in general is made up of all sorts of things, not just one thing, even if some things influence them than others, and that's not including what phase they are in life. If the "opposition" so to speak are simply using that label against them without understanding that people in general are far more complex than we give them credit and simply refuse to look beyond the 16% of Ellen Baker fanart that is lewd... then that's their own fault for being limited in their thinking.
Finally, someone matured without a crisis identity about something so little. And you just explained what I said earlier ( comment #1526833 ) with the best of words.
And to those teenagers labeling themselves into sub cultures, you may not know about it until you grow more, but SJW behave just like subculture teens... some of them don't even grow ever. The best way to counter offensive remarks about your tastes is to not be offended and pretend to be politically correct about your own either. I mean, how can you pretend everyone else to not feel offended if you get offended and ashamed without any help? That's why we have feminists over the most trivial things. Being tolerant starts from the group itself, not otherwise.
Its amazing how quickly people allow censorship just because they are afraid of what "might" happen. People can draw whatever they want, you are free to ask them to not do so, but you are also free to just ignore it.
Romcollector and KaitoDies got it right. Stop expecting people to bend over just because you are offended. The internet does not respect your authority.
also 2D isn't real. Stop treating it like it is...
So next time you draw a 34-rule picture, think about the feelings of non-existent characters!
Jokes aside, actually I do understand. I have never really liked pics portraying cruelty (not only rape), specially if they are from a character I really like. So I can imagine if I were the author, I really wont like to see my creation suffering.
But I wont have any problems with non-cruel ero pics.
In the end, whatever my opinion, your opinion, or the author's opinion about this kind of pictures, censorship is just a no-no.
TheGame7 said:
So what I'm saying is, if you don't like the porn being made of ol Ellen here, then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Get in contact with the artists and politely ask them to stop with a well thought out explaination for why what they're doing is wrong.
**EDITED** You know, come to think about it, no, I don't really agree.
If I put myself on the shoes of an artist, sounds *really* annoying the idea of some people asking me to stop drawing something, just because they don't like it!
So the only actually polite thing to do (at least here on danbooru) is to use the blacklist mechanism and block whatever you don't like, and leave the artists and their fans alone.
If one's immediate reaction to a polite request not to draw porn of a character meant to teach Japanese students English is to complain about people getting "offended", all it means is that they have gotten offended by someone telling them not do do something; a clear-cut example of projection.