It's all in the context. I recognized the Barack Obama character as a kid and I use this criteria. On the way she acted and was drawn plus the voice. Not to mention not pandering to the onii-chan crowd who always wanted a sister who can't leave them alone. It's not black and white and the fact they were able to differentiate her from others is something to be proud of in anime.
I have personally not seen someone in this thread call her a loli and aqua tends to bring questions and discussion topics every time he posts so I don't know how believable that post was. At least personally I'm sure if I search I'll find somebody on the Internet calling her that but it's ignorant and probably largely in the minority.
I don't quite get your post. The first part is not really important, is it? It just points out how the child is not a loli character and you seem to go for an explaination that we could call her loli, because the context is giving the information. but then you don't give that and instead state that nobody here even called her loli.
That is correct, but my argument derived from your reaction of my reaction.
Lolis don't necessarily have to be sexualized. They can also be grown up people in a child body that act more mature than they are. I still laugh at the "she's a teacher but a loli. Don't worry she is actually 1000 years old"
I am arguing that the term "loli" is connected to sexualization by the origin of it and because it should be used to differentiate between a sexualized child or childlike charater ("loli") and a normal child ("child").
A big practical problem I see is that it would be awful to throw the kid from Barakamon and Index from Index in one term.
Your made a argument about adults looking like kids. That still is connected to sexualisation. There is an age of consent, not an bodydevlopment of consent, which means, if the loli is not a child and "just" a adult who looks like a child it gives certain kind of people the silly argument that we all know.
