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Its clear some of you horny bastards missed the point.
Misato wasn't a pedo.
The whole show revolves around people who are starved of attention to the point of isolation.
Misato wasn't in love with Shinji, she was desperate for connection.
It's the same reason Shinji strangles Asuka, and the reason Asuka let's him.
Everyone is so broken that they'll take what they can get, even if the physical contact betrays their virtues.
But the last scene with misato and shinji wasn't about her being starved for attention. It was clearly an attempt to motivate shinji in overcoming his sense of hopelessness and fatalism. It was still fucked up but her putting moves on Kenji wasn't related to her need for attention. She was also trying to mask the severity of her wound. Shinji didn't need the additional stress of knowing she was on death's door while he was trying to "save the world." He needed motivation that something in his life would be waiting for him after he succeeded.
Ah, so it's all Ryoji's fault.
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Always has been
I always assumed the Mommy-Misato hangup thing was just a projected self-report.
That's an interesting point, is forgiveness a right when the situations are extreme? Similar to us understanding when people cannibalize others in extreme survival scenarios. The only thing I think separates the various scenarios as a morality vs blatantly illegal or wrong is the other parties consent and understanding of the overall situation.
Edit: Also if roles where reversed and it was Shinji as the older person in the scenario would you still say the same?
I think forgiveness is the wrong metric. It's simply about understanding.
If someone ate my child to survive, I would probably never forgive them, but I could understand.
As this post illustrates, society deems female predators as less of a moral threat. If this post was from the POV of a woman saying "where were all the pedos when I was a teen" people would lose their shit.
I'm a victim of this intuition myself, though I justify it by considering the potential for physical abuse is much higher with men, even though mentally, statutory rape is probably comparable.
I think understanding paves the way to forgiveness, you understanding the desperation of the circumstance that lead the person eating your child is in of itself forgiveness, you might hate them still but your understanding would cease any further hatred/action towards said party which in my mind is forgiveness albeit a small step.
You are correct though that society views these scenarios differently based on the gender of the offender. Safe to assume then the perception is heightened because as you state the fact that brutal physicality is more likely with male offenders. The fact that mens “culture” is one of high praise at having had sex in the first place regardless of the nature and circumstances of it also means that the instances of the reverse actually being reported or documented is low.