SharkWeek

Can confirm - late 40s here, still got my army trousers!

You don't have to apologise for the behaviour of others, I just wanted to provide context for why it happens!

Duly noted ... and yes, the community should stick together. But. When it comes to personal choices of who to engage with with a view to forming an intimate bond, then people have to be able to set their own parameters.

It's the reason the message gets put on profiles, rightly or wrongly ... sorry.

If you're serious then message them authentically anyway (maybe mention that you're single and serious about a real relationship), 95% won't care that you're bi and the remaining gold star lesbians are insufferable anyway ;-)

Yup to all that!

I'd add to that that if you do send a message that's well thought out and light hearted, and they send back something lazy and/or thoughtless, then don't bother replying.

I understand what you're saying, however as a lesbian the last time I tried dating online I had lots, and I mean SHITLOADS, of nice chats with women who, after a week of working up to ready for a RL date, then dumped on me that they're happily married and were looking for a side piece / unicorn / partner in cuckolding / you name it.

This was with a thorough profile that clearly stated that I was looking for a monogamous life partner who was a woman or somewhere on the fem to androgynous spectrum.

I also had lots of messages from men, even though my profile was set to receive messages from women only.

In 6 months of trying every day I'd managed one date that went badly. It was bad enough that I gave up on the idea and deleted my profile, and was on my own for a year ... then I met my now-wife while doing a sociable hobby. She's bi, and not weird about it.

Fuck online dating, and fuck any women who attach "bi" to their self descriptions who just want to treat lesbians like a sex toy. It's their fault we have to put that in our profiles.

Girls Under Panzer put all the fan service into a separate series of short (under 5 mins) OVAs, so it's avoidable but does exist ...

As an enjoyer of non-fanservice Animé, but knowing how different people around the world have different attitudes to appropriateness, I'm going to say that you're going to have to carefully filter any list yourself.

For example, all of Girls Under Panzer is free from fan service / sexualization, (apart from the short OVAs which are nothing but that stuff) ... but some people don't like it's playful attitude to WW2 history.

SuperCub is another series that features zero sexualisation, but contains themes around depression, isolation, and struggling with interpersonal relationships.

Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, again no sexualization but features fighting against patriarchal systems and a love story of lesbanins.

It's possible that none of these are appropriate for your daughter, when I was 11 I would have devoured them and come back for more.

Then there's stuff like Born in Abyss which looks like a cutesy kids adventure but then descends into multiple layers of horror ... so, tread carefully.

I'm really sorry, but I already knew about Nyango Star ... IIRC the wikipedia article on them popped up on their "did you know" list a while back, and I followed a deep rabbit hole of into about Japanese mascots

Yeah, music doesn't have to be complicated for people to enjoy it - we're all still cave-dwelling simpletons at heart, for better or worse.

To millions of people around the world, depressed synth/keys/drums is their jam ... just look at Depeche Mode

That doesn't sound like a weird compliment, more like wanting to start a conversation with someone they're a fan of ... it's very cool that you have fans :-)