Never hurts, right? I'm honestly a little self-conscious of the fact that I'm long-winded and my perspective is a little unusual, so I tend to approach my posts with the humble attitude of "I'm not forcing anyone to read or think about what I'm saying, just putting out there for those interested". Thus, I often use spoiler tags when I don't really have to, as a way to imply that. (There's certainly been plenty of controversial stuff said in this thread outside of spoilers, so I'm not doing this because I feel pressured to by others!) Anyway, the relationship between feminists and gender roles or expression seems complex/nuanced, because on the one hand they want to be sex positive and courage freedom of expression, but on the other hand they want to critique things and condemn internalized misogyny. That said, trans woman as they come off on the internet seems different than what I've seen IRL, in terms of personality/values.
Btw, on the subject of recommendations for lolidom games: look foward to when mortalvyses puts out a patch for Nana's route in M Lesson Cram Session. Since you liked Steps to Love, and M Lesson is another good Msize game.
baxtus On the subject of lolidom: in f95 overall, where Japanese games are a major influence but where there are plenty of games from developers of other cultures, I feel like you'll receive a mix of responses to this question. The active posters in this thread mostly talk about non-Japanese femdom games, so they may lean a little more in one direction; relatively few succubus or monster girl games (which often have "shota hero" male leads) have been contributed to the list. So it certainly depends on where you ask; you'd probably receive a much different answer if you asked on, say, Giratena's Succubus Senki translation Discord server. As for me, whether I particularly enjoy it depends a lot on the execution, but I certainly don't mind it. I'm more about situations than about appearances.
Drawn loli/shota seems a bit incoherent of a concept to me, at least within a femdom context. Not saying that it's impossible to take out a ruler and try to guess about the physical proportions of characters and try to medically judge if they're underage, but... Lately, femdom art styles that incorporate unrealistic height differences are becoming increasingly common. For Japanese artists, there's doskoinpo (whose works tend to have wildly inconsistent anatomy in the first place) and Enka Boots, as well as the recent trend of being "stuffed into clothes" (literally having one's body trapped under a woman's clothes and being worn by her, with head usually trapped between breasts) which doskoinpo popularized but is now really common, which only works with massive height differences or mini-giantesses. All of these works depict obviously adult or same-age men and women who dwarf them. Even in the case of well-known "shota" artists like Namejon you can see that in the
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with a different artist, his character Lest from Parade Buster looks more like the mature male character which Parade Buster's scenario characterizes him as. So-called "shota hero" characters are common in Japanese femdom games but if you look at the setting they're always implied as being at least in their mid to late teens. Female characters being drawn with a height or size advantage gives them an advantage in seeming intimidating and being able to manhandle the male lead (which is core in a lot of soft femdom "reverse rape" scenarios where he's being held down).
Where scenarios become less abstract is for example when the scenario says "that character is a [x]-year student of [elementary/middle/high] school". So you might have a scenario where, say, an elementary school character dominates a teacher. But from a qualitative perspective, this scenario seems largely analogous to the combination of a "a smaller woman dominating a much larger man" and "a student dominating a teacher". I'm not trying to obfuscate the "fact" that the character is underage; like I said earlier, of course you can always examine the setting closely to try to make some judgment on whether the characters are underage or not. But that's not usually what people refer to when they say "loli/shota" or else they would pay just as much attention to a second year high school student who's probably only 16 or 17 in a country where the age of consent is 18. So that's why the terms don't mean a lot to me these days. Frankly, I think the reason Japanese works have more "loli" content in the first place has to do with the fact that their women are shorter and have smaller chests on average; combined with how many Westerners complain that anime characters "look like children" there may be a bit of xenophobia mixed into this whole mess. ...Well, I'll stop there.
