People who like horror movies and games are freaks. “Oh but the gore isn’t REAL!” yeah, well, it looks real. Why the hell are you engaging with the kind of content if you “supposedly” don’t condone it in real life? Why are you watching torture porn if you don’t condone actually torturing real people?
There’s no difference between watching someone get tortured to death in a SAW film and watching an actual murder take place. It’s all disgusting and ILLEGAL and anyone who watches or creates gore content is BASICALLY a murderer already. DNI you fucking criminal freaks!
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It’s not so much that my sarcasm detector is broken, it’s more This Fucking Website, y’know?
I know I made another post about it but reblogging that this is 100% not serious- I was pissed off by someone whining about how “gore is different than SEX!!” So this happened.
the original sounds like something antis would totally write. it’s way too realistic. holyshit.
and it’s completely the argument made by certain christian groups about video games not that long ago.
See, I’m SO glad you brought up the video game thing because like… I think part of the reason the whole anti-shipping/anti-fiction movement bothers me SO MUCH is like…
I was fucking THERE for that. Like I was there for fandom-specific shit like the fucking downfall of FanFic.net but… I was also around for the “video games cause VIOLENCE!” thing and… I thought that was settled, at least on the side of things most of these young antis claims to be on.
Like. We’ve been there. We KNOW that fictional violence like video games and movies doesn’t fucking cause people to be actually violent. We’ve been there. We’ve debated that. And we came out the other side going “yeah, there’s no real evidence that shooter games are actually causing people to behave more violently, but there ARE a ton of other, real world things that have an impact, and let’s look at all of that.”
So it does drive me just a little bit nuts to see so many teens and younger adults like… Just jumping on the same fucking bandwagon as Republicans did when I was like. In grade school. The same bandwagon they’ve been on about anything queer since before I was born. The bandwagon they’re on right fucking now trying to ban “morally wrong” content- aka anything alluding to sex ed or the existence of queer people.
We’ve settled this. And the logic applies across the board. Seeing something violent or taboo, or even seeing something good in media does not make you more inclined to do the thing. That isn’t the way fiction and reality interact. Reading or watching something violent does not make you more likely to go out and do something violent.
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