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I’m gonna say it.
It’s unhinged to assume that someone’s taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.
That is a bonkers assumption to make.
I’m tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.
I’m tired of pretending like this is a legitimate position to hold– that they should be afraid of fiction’s dire influence on a reader’s moral decay or that it’s a sign of what the author secretly wants for realsies in real life.
#I’m getting so very tired of hearing such negative takes on dark romance#“well women will normalize this and think abuse is okay”#uhhh no they fucking won’t#you’re infantalizing grown ass women and assuming they can’t tell reality from fiction and it’s insulting as fuck#OR better yet “teenage girls are gonna read this and blah blah blah”#ummm….that sounds like a problem for their parents and not the problem of the books themselves#if you’re that worried then maybe parents need to make sure their children aren’t reading books NOT MEANT FOR THEM#it is fucking WILD to see BUT WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN rhetoric coming from liberal spaces like wow#I am sooo very tired of seeing this bullshit on my dash#you don’t even have to like these books! I don’t even read them!#grow ass women are full formed human beings who can tell reality from fantasy and if you disagree then fuck you#but the misplaced pearl clutching over it makes me wanna claw out some eyes#it’s fiction. just books.#calm your fucking tits
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