Anime fans and nerds in general have a tendency to obfuscate the difference between what they ‘don’t care’ about, and what they ‘don’t mind,’ both to other people and to themselves. They may say something along the lines of ‘I don’t care how I look!’ and this, my friends, is a bold-faced lie. We live in a society that has pressured us from an early age to look nice, and no matter how much you place yourself into a counter-cultural position, it is still ingrained into your mind that appearances do matter. And why does our society do that? Because our base instincts as human beings inspired it. Every human has the drive to procreate, and we know that the likelihood of procreation in our society increases the closer we get to looking like what our minds have set as the ideal body. These are just facts.