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What is offensive about the domain name? Just curious.
by ddavis 9y ago
What is offensive about the domain name? Just curious.
- kw71 9y ago"loli" is a 4chanism for a sexual target who is underage
- konart 9y agoIt has nothing to do with 4chan though
- kw71 9y agoMy fault, 15+ years or so ago some kids who were interested in /b/ explained it to me, and this was a while before it was widely understood.
- Theizestooke 9y agonot 4chan but japanese manga & anime culture.
- konart 9y agoThe origin is russian though.
- chii 9y agoThe term is indeed from a russian book named lolita, but the term 'loli' has evolved via anime to mean something a bit different than the original.
- lmm 9y agoNot really; Nabokov was born in Russia but left at 19, and wrote Lolita in English while in the US.
- konart 9y agoWell... yeah, always forgetting about this.
- kronos29296 9y agoJust otaku stuff. not just 4chan
- westmeal 9y agoNot quite. It's actually used to refer to anime characters that have the physical characteristics of young girls. You know, weeaboo territory stuff. The theme has become increasingly prevalent in anime as of late.
- ourcat 9y agoShort for "Lolita"?
- jhanschoo 9y agoThe history of the 2-syllable word "loli" to refer to prepubescence is pretty interesting. Of course, it began as the Lolita of Nabokov's book. Some decades later, Japanese street fashion then co-opted this term to refer to a coquettish fashion style with Victorian motifs; for an analogy you might consider it similar to how steampunk wears and reinterprets the outward look of mechanical automatons. I don't quite get the original choice of naming outside of perhaps the lack of awareness of cultural subtleties and connotations that underlie cultural appropriation, but it is apt, since choosing to dress in such a way is a voluntary choice to want to be seen and viewed as a (perfect) and very youthful doll more as something to be admired from a distance than to be interacted with—perhaps the notion of sexual immaturity was seen to reinforce Victorian prudishness and vice versa. The way things get verbally abbreviated in Japanese is that they tend to be abbreviated into abbreviations of 2-mora or 4-mora, roughly corresponding to 2 syllables or 4 syllables. Hence Lolita was quickly abbreviated to loli in casual speak. From there, the usage of the word loli further evolved in Japanese anime-related media. "loli" probably started off as a not-very-common archetype of female character who looked like the idealized lolita dresser—a doll-like prepubescent person with "refined" manners. Perhaps with influence from the original meaning of Lolita, at some point loli was generalized into the (by now common) prepubescent female character archetype in anime-related media, regardless of whether or not the Victorian-motifed dresses accompanied it.
- konart 9y agoLoli is a term used to describe young girls (short form of lolita - "a slang term for a sexually attractive, seductive or precocious young girl" (c) wiki) Somebody didn't like the joke about selling one.
- viraptor 9y agoIt's basically "young girls for sale". Not an idea many people and projects want to have a connection to.