Fandom’s weird need to strip away characters’ complexity to reduce them into an extremely flat and reductive moral binary where everyone fits into a neat little black & white box of either “victim” or “abuser” is so exhausting and
it’s so bitter to watch how many people are only now realising that the censorship of “morally bad” things will never stop at just the things they personally find repulsive. the problem with morals is that they’re not a fixed norm that everyone agrees on and that they’re a very easy argument to be used by bigots against marginalised groups. that’s why it’s dangerous to call for censorship on moral grounds – whose morals exactly?
all you people campaigning for a boycott of ao3, wanting them to censor “bad” content, i am begging you to wake the fuck up and understand that for many people “bad” things include queer people’s existence, any form of sexual content, minority-representation and criticism of the government.
