What bothers me the most about this whole antis thing is that it makes so easy to discredit works just because you read the tags and it has “bad” content (regardless of how that content is made).I’ve seen it so many times that antis shit on a fic just for being tagged as underage and/or noncon, and then you go check the fic out and it’s a great exploration of trauma and abuse and it’s just so… Frustrating. I mean, I’m pro fiction, so I’m not saying the fic has to be saying something powerful to merit it’s existence. It’s just so shitty to me as a survivor how often antis want to get rid of content that explicitly does what they want (present “problematic” relationships as clearly bad and traumatic) because it’s not perfectly squeaky clean or free of sexual content.
See, that’s how I know they’re lying when they say “it’s not that you can’t depict it, just don’t romanticize it!”
Cause when you do exactly that, they still go on a warpath. Cause if you use tags to indicate that a work has these subjects in it, the worst is assumed without question. They don’t even read it before passing judgement on whether it meets their criteria, when their criteria mandates that somebody read it in order to know if it actually does or doesn’t.
They claim there’s a loophole but i think of it more as a trap.
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