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oh goody, this is going to be a long one.

it’s so ridiculous 🙄 I’ve seen this “paedophilia” argument so many times and it’s triggering how they misuse this term so much. Especially as a law student (pet peeve: people misusing technical terms and making very serious (false) accusations).

Paedophilia tends to be the umbrella term for everything with a big age gap or when one party of the couple knew the other party as a child, which shows how uneducated they are with their try hard activism. Paedophilia is a psychiatric disorder, when an adult is primary or exclusively sexually attracted to prepubescent children.

No one in their right mind ships Sesshomaru with Rin while she was still a kid, I’ve yet to see someone who actively ships them in a romantic setting with her still being a kid. All the shippers I’ve come across and fanworks made, are her being a young adult or adult.

The other term they’re throwing around is “grooming”, while thinking it means he groomed her into his wife, which is also false and a misuse of the term. Grooming happens, when an adult is befriending and establishing an emotional connection with a child in order to lower the child’s inhibitions with the object of sexual abuse. Sessh didn’t approach her with any sexual intentions in mind, he tolerated her following him out of pity, which turned into being her protector after a while. As I see it, Jaken was more of a father figure for her than Sessh was. He ignored her most of the times, just watching over her and made sure she was safe (i mean, like a dog...a guard dog). And he certainly didn’t “groom” her into being his wife, that dude did not show any signs of romantic interest while she was a child. Heck, he was pretty stoic most of the times.

The fact, that people who saw Sessh as a father figure for Rin exist, is actually our strongest argument against their paedophilia accusation. They wouldn’t have been able to perceive their relationship as such in the first place, if there were ANY romantic advances or signs while she was a child. Wanna see and read about a real pedophile story/relationship? Go read Lolita by Vladimir Nobakov, it’s disturbing.

Another form of grooming happens, when someone is manipulated until they’re isolated, dependent and more vulnerable to exploitation (can also happen with adults). Though it was only a filler episode, in episode 162 (Forever with Lord Sesshomaru), Sessh even gave her the free choice to either stay with humans or follow him (with his trademark line “do as you please”). In the Manga she was staying with Kaede in the end. And she was friends with Kohaku. She mostly fended for herself (with Jaken), foraging for food in the wild or secretly on farms. Rin was certainly not isolated or dependent. I’m not even digging into the exploitation point, because there is nothing to say.

I admit, they way SessRin developed is not completely unproblematic and the biggest factor is, that he met her while she was still a child. I can agree with that, but most SessRin shippers do not ship them because he knew her as a child, but because she was the first one who he cared for. If you break it down, it’s pretty much the cold-emotionless-bad boy-falls-for-a-girl-after-being-shown-kindness-for-the-first-time trope. SessRin shippers would’ve also shipped them if Rin was the same age as Kagome the first time they’ve met. Rin being a child when they met is not the base of this ship, it’s their relationship and how she broke through Sessh’s walls and that she was the first (human) being he ever cared for. She was also the reason Sessh slowly began to accept Tenseiga as his sword.

People who are saying Sessh went out of character and should’ve stayed on platonic terms with Rin, clearly have no idea about storytelling and character development. Sessh is a dog demon. Inuyasha is a dog demon. Inu no Taisho was a dog demon. Rin is a human, Kikyo was a human, Kagome is a human, Izayoi was a human. Basically, dogs love humans and create very strong bonds with them. Even staying loyal when their owner mistreats or abuses them. The whole series builds up on this dog-human dynamic. Basically every romantic interest involving a dog demon ended up being a dog-human pair. What’s not clicking?

I also find it quite funny, how some of those people can also ship Kagome and Inuyasha while preaching their (false) paedophilia speech in the same sentence. Kagome was 15 when she met 200 year old Inuyasha. 15. That’s a teenager. I’m 26 and when I see 15 year olds, they look like toddlers to me. I don’t see anyone advocating for Kagome’s minor rights. The whole world flipped when Drake was dating a 18 year old but the fandom is still pretty silent about the fact, that Kagome was also 18 when she was married to 203 y/o Inuyasha in the epilogue. InuKag and SessKag shippers don’t get the same criticism as SessRin shippers, even though Kagome is also still a minor and that’s where you see the hypocrisy.

They can ship her because her design looks older and it’s easier to forget that she’s 15/18. Usagi from Sailor Moon was 14 when she met and began a romantic relationship with Mamoru, who was 17. Even though both are considered minors, 14 is a lot different than 17 but nobody bat an eye for that either. Probably it’s because Usagi doesn’t look like a 14 year old. Kagome doesn’t look like a 15 year old. But Rin looks her age, she looks like an 8 year old when they first met, evoking a different perception in people of being a minor, the age gap and her vulnerability. That’s the only reason I can think of, why people are fine with InuKag, SessKag, KogaKag and whatever, even though it’s essentially almost the same setting as with SessRin. Rin is a minor, Kagome is a minor, they both are protected by their stronger and much older demon travel partners. And its hypocritical to try and argue a difference because grooming and abuse of an 8 year old is such as horrific as of an 15 year old. If one of them is a victim, then both are.

I’m not trying to shit on InuKag or other Kagome ships btw., I love Kagome and InuKag, I’m just trying to show the hypocrisy in their fake activism, because it’s not based on facts and information but rather on subjective feelings and perception. It’s fine and legitimate to not like SessRin because of said reasons, but it is wrong to judge others for shipping it and accuse them of supporting paedophilia. People who are triggered by SessRin, should stay away from it but leave those alone, who enjoy it.

Oh and before someone runs their mouth at me and use personal history as an argument, I’ve been a victim of paedophilia and grooming myself. I was touched and molested by my private tutor for years between 5th and 7th grade. But I’ve overcome my trauma, educated myself and I’m able to tell fiction from reality. Nobody watches Inuyasha for relationship and dating advice. Misusing terms is actually harming the ones involved and projecting one own’s traumas and struggles onto others, by shaming them for shipping something is not helping anyone and doesn’t make a difference at all.

Lastly, no SessRin shipper is condoning real life child/adult relationships. We are able to ship them because fictional stories are less dimensional than real life situations are. Fictional relationships have less nuances, cherry picked dynamics and moments that make us perceive them in a specific way. It is man made. What seems romantic in a fictional story (even between two adults) may be littered with red flags or less exciting and boring in a real life setting. People consume fiction mainly for entertainment, not for real life and dating advice.

I guess they had enough of the international fans (the crazy shippers) spamming their twitter account.

If you want to drop the show, do as you please. Let others enjoy it.

You do not have to announce your departure. It's because the last time I checked, this is the internet. We are not in the airport. Doing this only shows that you are an entitled brat or a "Karen".

If you cannot accept the canon, you can make your own headcanons and fanfictions without undermining others.

I'm not trying to justify SesshRin. Nor am I trying to bash it. I'm just stating a point.

Last episode, the moral of the story was to not force people into relationships. It really was not at all about the ages of the relationships. So it's basically saying if they are happy, any love is okay.

I will admit that I'm a bit on the fence when it comes to that statement. I don't like that. But it is indeed what the moral of that story was even though the pacing was super wack and I felt uncomfortable watching the episode.

And I feel it's setting up for next week where I am 90% sure SesshRin will become canon. It's to justify it by saying that they have a healthy(ish?) relationship.

The issue of grooming and sexual abuse the Sessrin Antis are "fighting against" and claim to " care" about is also interesting.

I seem to remember Miroku groping Kagome when she was 15. Interesting. At the time that episode originally aired , i saw all of the countless beautiful fan art and videos shipping Miroku and Sango and read comments about the Mirsan ship on countless posts. But what I didnt see were Mirsan Antis, I saw no Anti hastags for the ship. I saw no comments or haters under Mirsan posts shaming them for shipping Mirsan. Not then, or in the years since to this day.

Miroku groped Kagome when she was 15. That is considered sexual. A woman I know of was groped by a man and took him to court for sexual assault , for groping her behind just like Miroku. And the court agreed with her and convicted him of sexual assault. She was 23 years old at the time of the assault.

It’s been confirmed since the anime began that Takahashi Rumiko is heavily involved with the anime and the director of Yashahime confirmed it early on in the series. From this interview,we clearly see 3 things:

-TR has given her APPROVAL for this series to be part of the Inuyasha universe as a sequel & that she likes the idea of its existence very much

-That she is SUPERVISING the anime and checking the scripts therefore everything you see on the screen is approved by her

-She went as far as creating an art herself of Sesshoumaru & Inuyasha with the twins and Moroha + the designs of the characters.

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Antis can only argue with straw men. Sesshomaru and Rin did not have a romantic relationship when she was a child. They had a bond of mutual trust, respect and companionship. 

He was never her father figure, that’s a headcanon that was foisted on him by fans. Sesshomaru was a 19 year old angsty demon teenager with severe emotional issues. He was barely capable of friendship, let alone parenthood. 

Rin grew up in the loving care of Kaede and the human village where she lived with Inugang and others. When she came together with Sesshomaru as a young woman, it was of her own volition. She chose him enthusiastically and with her whole heart. And why shouldn’t she? 

"waited for her to be older to have kids married and groomed her"

"He never showed interest in her in a romantic way [...] or sexually"

"waited for her to be older to have kids married and groomed her"

"He never showed interest in her in a romantic way [...] or sexually"

I hope everyone who was threatening to drop the show in the case Rin was the mother actually drops the show. 

I hope everyone who was threatening to drop the show in the case Rin was the mother actually drops the show.