Looking past the humorous element of the post, it’s important to acknowledge that the post isn’t necessarily true. It’s important to realize that fictional girls are easy to fawn over because they’re designed to present the idea of a person instead of a person in themselves.

Real people have bad habits, they’re annoying or bothersome sometimes, they get tired or groggy, they get irritable, they get lazy. These are crucial human traits, and without any of these, you’re arguably missing a vital human experience. In anime, girls are presented without these traits, or if these traits are present, they’re shown in a way that’s romanticized such that they appear cute or appealing. Take, for instance, a tsundere. If you imagine, truly imagine, that an anime tsundere were real, can you imagine how frustrating it would be to have to deal with their behavior on a daily basis?

To be clear, I’m not necessarily against this sort of caricaturization in media, otherwise I wouldn’t be in this com. I bring this up because I worry that younger people are increasingly not acknowledging this difference between fictional and real people, and are comparing real people to a fictional standard, leading to a variety of toxic and misogynistic behaviors.