Glowing, flawless skin? A sign of health since the days of the Neanderthals. Rosy cheeks? Good circulation—a sign of good cardiovascular health. Hair? Well, that’s more of a sociocultural thing.

The fact that flawless skin and androgyny are perfectly acceptable in K-Pop and Eastern Asia in general tells me that this is more a case of double standards. But I’ll ignore that.

I think the worst part of the claim that “smooth, flawless skin without wrinkles is pedophilia” is that, in fact, you can easily find people like that in their 20s to 35s without much trouble. But that argument wouldn’t hold up if they showed examples of it.

For these arguments to hold up as “literally pedophilia,” they must ignore all social movements and the way society has taken shape—a “slim, thin waist”; is that something exclusive to girls? Does it really hold up?

I think I could go through the entire history of how this has its roots in Greco-Roman cultures—and to some extent, Christianity. God, it doesn’t even work that way, because it’s also a sign of attractiveness in other cultures.

For these arguments to hold up, they’d have to be framed in an extraordinarily specific way—like TikTok using photos of Emma Watson from the second and third Harry Potter movies or posting Lolita-style images with a suggestive soundtrack. None of these arguments stand up to closer scrutiny, so this narrative can only have been spread by girls whose minds have been brainrotted by TikTok and other things on Instagram.

My theory as to why this feminist argument has resonated so strongly in recent years is that, statistically speaking, millennials are already approaching 40, and zoomers are between 27 and 30. So these women are already hitting the wall.

So we have these game developers putting women with wrinkles in their video games, or calling any video game with a young, attractive character “pedophilic” or part of a “pedophile culture.”

It’s all projected intrasexual competition.