I was listening to a video about a certain politician receiving allegations of sexual harassment from former subordinates, and it got me thinking about various hypotheticals related to the subject. The one that I thought was most funny would be what I call the 'weeb defense', where the accused asserts that the allegations against them are false due to the fact that they only have interest in Japanese animated pornography, and therefore could not have harassed any physical women. I'm curious if there have been any cases of the weeb defense being used? Let me know if you know of any instances of this. Also, if you know a thing or two about law, how do you think such a defense would hold up in court?
Even tho it seems a reasonable defense to me (and by extension, other men of culture), don't think it will hold up in court.
It would surely hold up in court as well as any claim that is backed by proof (showing his account and how much he watched and for example a nhentai or hanime account) at least legally.
When writing I was more thinking of anime history as proof that he actually consumed jap animated media rather than hentai, as it has to come from somewhere imo and the mere existence of a hentai account should outweigh baseless accusations
I used the weeb defense to get out of jury duty. Unfortunately, my dismissal wasn't on any logical standings like I had a different viewpoint or that I was too subscribed into 2D to care about the 3D like the OP wanted. It was on the sole basis that I wasn't going to take the case seriously.
Don't shady politicians dislike anime in general? I remember that court case about claiming virginity, and should be innocent by consequence. Same, same. Though it is a double edged sword, since you'll be presenting your "tastes" to the supreme court and certainly the whole world. Both cases resulting in social death.
If any politician made this defense, they would have solace in the fact that all the weebs would consider them a legend. They would go down in history.
if you're talking about andrew cuomo i don't think people will believe that he even knows what a hentai is. he looks more like he would like to do his brother than anyone else.
I think it was the motive of a murder on one of the CSIs, the guy had a porn addiction, and could only get turned on by porn, so he killed the pornstar, and did his girlfriend in the vicinity. So it could be more damning if someone tried a weeb defense.
I'm unsure if you would need to go as far as being specific about which 2d culture you were enamored with. I could see it working as long as you were willing to back your claims with proof and ofcorse not truely guilty of the crime. I wouldnt recommend going the 2d girl route if you are truely guilty though. Weebs dont have the best of reputations and I could foresee many weebs retaliating if someone was use their culture as a shield... hell hath no fury as when a weebs wifus is scorned.
Unless he is declaring that he is homosexual it would be very hard to prove otherwise.. The court won't listen on "oh I didn't harass her cause she's not my type" sorry it won't work..alibis and clinically provable causes itself have a hard time getting clear wins...this is won't even be looked at.
Innocent until proven guilty. Allegations themselves are already a heavy strike and even if proven wrong the damage won't go away In the end, it is nearly always word against word, just that many try to lie to get the win in court. "Sexual Harrassment" can be fucking stupid because it can be so subjective too, and witnesses will mostly say things that support the person who is more appealing to them (is sympathetic the right word?)
actually it can used to counter, the likes of fiction may motive to do da crime like people watch too much porn then rape something~ it just how to prove it~ like those who like loli on fiction is all pedo or those who like bloody video game is psycho~ such thing may used as directing public sentiment which double sword stuff beside it just one of defense argument which may fail upon other evidence presented later on court