“I don’t want to read this because it is disgusting to me” is totally valid.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
Bro, blocking someone and then using their tag like this is, all offence, weak as fuck. Like all you had to say was, na bro I don’t promote pedo protags on this here blog, because I wholly agree with the premise of your argument given contexts (i.e., writing abusive relationships to show the evils, great; writing abusive relationships to show the romance, yikes).
This response is so, so comically shitty within the context of that tag, oh my god.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
OK see dude you’ve got to nuance your point some more because the longer this post goes on the longer you sound like you’re into pedo stuff (or at the very least considere it a genre like any other).
I see your point, and yeah we should keep writing about these things so we can educate ourselves and stuff, but then you’ve got comments like this:
Which, first off i guess good for you if your fics get attention, but yeah no romancising pedophilia is not something we should be doing.
I already see you coming at me with your one (1) argument, but you have to admit there is a line to draw somewhere.
There can be pedophilia in fiction / story books to showcase abuse / power, there can (and should) be pedophilia in psychology / ethic books to present the themes and get people to be aware / talk about it (and no i don’t mean to just spit on it, i mean actual awareness and behavorial studies).
What there should *not* be in books is the glorifying* of the practice as it would incite people to do it in real life because “Well i read it in a book and it looked cool”.
*(i have no fucking clue where the y and i go in this word, probably won’t correct it bc lazy)
“Censorship of some topics in fiction and art is good and I would be happy if it were to be enacted in a way I approved of”
and
“some things should be banned from ever being written or read about in fiction”
are both authoritarian viewpoints to hold and express, even if you don’t have the power to enact them.
If you hold these viewpoints you are holding authoritarian viewpoints.
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.
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