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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.
Online culture’s uncritical adoption of:
* moral absolutist ideologies
* the worse sorts of English classes that treat art as a psychoanalytical puzzle to solve, with a ‘correct’ answer
* fandom/geek circles’ obsessively insecure need to define media tastes as ‘objectively’ good or bad
has led to an absolute perfect storm of holier-than-thou moralism. You can’t just dislike anything these days, you have to crusade against it. It’s a rotten mentality to the very core.
gonna add this absolutely applies to anybody other than pedos. common to see this argument coming out of pedos, annoyingly
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.
It also is really fucking annoying as a CSA survivor to constantly see the term “pedo” thrown around because someone likes ageplay or an underage ship or whatever. Shipping is not pedophilia. Fanfic and fanart are not CSAM. Get a fucking grip and focus on real life harm instead of worrying about fake people.
It also makes it actively harder to talk about abuse. Like, when I see someone called a “pedo” or “zoophile” or anything of the sort it’s hard to even tell at this point if they’re actually abusing animals/children or if they just liked the wrong piece of fanart. When we misuse serious words like this, we make it actively more difficult to talk about them.
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