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🔹 Someone else’s fiction cannot cause you physical harm.
🔹If someone else’s fiction is causing you emotional or psychological harm, or distress, you can put it down and not read/watch it.
🔹Your emotional well-being is not the responsibility of fiction writers.
🔹Someone else’s fiction is not about your personal trauma.
🔹When reading or watching fiction, you always have the power. You can always stop. You are never reading fiction without your own consent.
🔹Fiction writers are not responsible for other people’s mental health.
🔹The content of a piece of fiction does not reflect on the morality of its author.
🔹Just because someone writes about bad things happening, doesn’t mean they want those things to happen.
🔹Don’t like? Don’t read.
These can really hard to accept and internalize – but you gotta work on that if you’re knee-jerk reaction is to be incensed about the topic.
Where is that anger coming from? Where are you directing that rage? What are the damages that can be caused because you’re not considering anything except your own personal reaction?
Who does your anger harm? I’ve touched on this before in another post, but think about it. It can easily be twisted out of your hands and used against you or your loved ones. Who does it help?
Who told you that fantasy and reality are equivalent? Do you equate consensual BDSM with abuse? Do you separate children for playing cops and robbers because you think they believe they’re actually shooting one another? Are you petitioning against action movies because the writers must be cruel and violent if they’re writing stories about bloody fights and murders?
Of course not, that’s ridiculous. So why one and not the other? And Who Does That Benefit?
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