>>10092258Again lolitas dont aim to look like children at best they are aiming to go againts the Yamato Nadeshiko idea of womanhood that japanese society forces on women... 2nd they are still a counterculture so mainstream JP pop culture has very little to do with them, westerners just think they r the same... i dont deny the connection with the naming scheme but you are ignoring that the term lolita existed within otaku subculture before the fashion was even conceive!! So it becomes a chicken and the egg conundrum, so I ask the question: if the term lolita was lifted by weeb culture which was influence by a different source.. was it inspired by the book, or anime and manga aesthetic that was created from it?
my peeve its your insisting that its women trying to look like kids or that it has anything to do with kids, heck fucking Ero Lolitas exist which its a whole can of worms if u believe it has to do with looking like kids.
Eitherway Shoujo its their actual word for girl or young woman (teen/early 20s) not just little girls... and to answer ur question on why use the name lolita... have you thought that they find the name...cute? Like think of it from a non western POV if you had never heard or read the book, or knew it existed- would you think there was something wrong with the name Lolita?
If u look into anime they have this weird obsession with naming white characthers Alice (and yes they also look like Alice from the book) its just a trope at this point cuz they like the aesthetic...
Plus what kid dresses like in pic? Not even victorian children dressed like this? Not even the fucking dolls kids played with looked like this?
Just say you hate thay there are women out there thay dress different from mainstream and that you dislike their extreme commitment to a non sexualized aesthetic, because the fashion and beauty industry has convinced people that women should dress and look a certain way to be acceptable.(and ero lolitas dont even erotic)