VNs also come from a culture of sexualisation. You wanna avoid those, too?
Look, the term “loli” is being used on pretty much everything that’s small and female nowadays, regardless of actual age or degree of sexualisation. It’s applicable to way too many characters in everything related to anime. It’s a multi-facetted part of the culture we’re discussing. Trying to avoid the term is like having an amputated limb. It’s doable but super awkward, and so is the atmosphere around it. Besides, treating the term itself as something bad goes against our principle of judging based on intent, not content or wording. It means many things, so why focus on the worst meaning among them?
The trap thing was an extreme case but I’d rather not use the same logic for every potentially misusable term.
