yaoi (cause there isnt enough of it here)

Probably 99% of animê fantards (such as myself) have heard someone call animê "a cartoon."
Whenever I hear this, I explode with reasons the two could not possibly be any different!
Here is the list of reasons I have in case anyone else runs into this argument por chance:
1. animê is from Japan, and ONLY Japan... desenhos animados are dumped here from everywhere else.
2. animê is for all ages; desenhos animados are either for practically four ano olds or forty ano olds, with nothing decent inbetween.
3. animê MAKES PEOPLE CRY. DO YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO HAS CRIED BECAUSE OF ADVENTURE TIME?! NO, YOU DON'T.
4. animê contains...