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 promise you it is still getting me death threats in 2024.
#yeah#the only reason (well. ok. the main reason) i do not like terminology like proship or w/e is like#this is not about fandom arguments it’s about people having fundamentally reactionary beliefs on art i refuse to humor#like u can be critical of how things are depicted but fandom arguments are rarely that in a meaningful sense lol#it’s “this is literally degenerate- sorry i meant to say gross and problematic”#not like examining how things may reflect some less than ideal ways society looks at these topics and things like that#like it’s coming from a place of moralization and not analysis or anything like that#i am not interested#(the other reason i don’t like proship is b/c a lot of people who identify as such also get mad at actual analysis#or anything but glowing praise lol#which is an understandable defensive reaction but also. quite silly.#we can talk about these things. i have no interest in condemning them. i just want to examine them.)#i don’t know why i felt the need to go on a tag rant here but. yeah.
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