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someone said: “I don’t want to live in a world where people write nasty fiction about (insert horrible thing here, such as murder, rape, csa, etc)…”
☝️ Understandable, but we all live together in a world where all of these horrible things happen in the real world around us every day.
☝️ And wouldn’t it be a terrible injustice to ban people from writing about a real thing that happens to or around them?
☝️ And wouldn’t it be a terrible injustice to force survivors of those horrible things to disclose their trauma to the world in order to be permitted to write about them?
☝️ And wouldn’t it be a terrible injustice to police the tone and word choice that survivors of trauma, and the people who witness these traumas choose to use when writing fiction about these experiences?
☝️ And wouldn’t it be a horrific injustice to subject every person who wrote about these horrible events to intense scrutiny about whether they were writing about them in the ‘approved way’?
☝️ You might not want to live in a world where people write about these things, but it is easier and more just and ethical for you to avoid those pieces of fiction than it is to police how and why people write about those things.
“I don’t wanna live in a world where people WRITE about–”
But you (Dear Someone) already LIVE in a world where the BAD THING HAPPENS IN REALITY.At least in the WRITTEN forms it’s fictional, avoidable, AND the person who wrote it is SAFE.
Is that not enough? Is it NOT enough that someone is safe, not having the bad thing happen, and is taking that control BACK potentially by writing about it?
I think we have violently wider problems to deal with before we can even THINK towards trying to tell anyone what they can and cannot write. (Likewise, Someone and I also seem to have wildly different ideas on what’s more harmful: A person exploring the Bad Thing in fiction, or the Bad Thing happening to a Person who then goes on to write about it)
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