Imagine Going To A Gynaecologist For Sterilisation And They Whip Out A Tentacle Dildo.

imagine going to a gynaecologist for sterilisation and they whip out a tentacle dildo.

In case it wasn't clear:

Yes. Even as a proshipper, I firmly believe every single person creating content that has the potential to be unpleasant, triggering or upsetting should be responsible for making sure it can't be seen as much as they have the right to spaces where it can be seen.

It is your personal choice not to bother with things like tags or applying content markers.

But then you lose the right to be angry or upset when people complain about being exposed to your content with limited or no ways to avoid it.

Again. The Salmon Analogy.

You don't have to eat the salmon.

But its in both our best interests for me to be blatant about which dishes contain salmon specifically so you don't eat the salmon.

(And its in everyone's best interests to start bullying websites and services into giving us better tools to make sure this symbiotic relationship works.)

By the way the celebrity industry being infested with predatory contracts, homophobia, sexism, predatory power imbalances, manipulation, fake relationships/wealth/controversy and otherwise immoral and dangerous aspects is not a conspiracy theory ❤

no offense but some of y'all should really consume more weird media ok some of y'all are ready to clutch your pearls at the mere sight of the slightest offbeat concept in speculative fiction and this can't go on

Fiction does not affect reality in that what happens in fiction is not real. As in, cause in fiction does not result in affect within reality. It is not a 1:1 cause/affect scenario.

As in, if I write a piece of fiction about slapping someone, I have not, in fact, actually slapped them. Nor will they read it and feel the pain of being slapped.

Fictional action =/= real-life response.

We are neither lying nor ignoring anything. Representation in movies also has literally nothing to do with that argument. It has everything to do with real life classism and racism being perpetrated within a real-life industry.

(Because fiction does not exist without being created by someone or multiple persons. And as such, fiction is the victim of the mindset of its creator(s).)

Similarly, literally all of your arguments in the following paragraph:

And Yes fictional characters aren‘t real doesn‘t fucking mean you can do whatever forever and not have it reflect on you. If you can‘t write women, can only depict characters of color as stereotypes, write disabled people only ever as horror yeah that will fucking reflect on you.

Also relate to the exact same point. You're taking a tagline and trying to associate it with something completely different. You're taking separation of fictional content to real-life actions and values and trying to apply it to the broader spectrum of real-life societal issues and influence.

"If you can't write women..."

Author issue.

"Only depict characters of color as stereotypes..."

Author prejudice.

"Write disabled people only ever as horror...."

Common ableist association in media production.

Absolutely nobody is saying that media and media production are not tainted by or victims of societal and personal prejudice in real life. But what we're also not saying is that that is equitable to fanfiction and fictional literature/artwork you simply think is objectionable or 'icky.'

People creating works of fiction that perpetrate ableist, racist, sexist or homophobic virtues, ideals or stereotypes is not a fiction issue. Its a person issue.

Neither is anyone saying you can't have personal objections to certain topics, themes or content, which is what you're trying to conceal behind the freedom to 'criticise.' Criticism is not aggressively attacking people over what they read or write.

Getting real fucking sick of the “Fiction doesn’t affect reality” and “Fictional characters aren’t real so whatever I do to them doesn’t matter” people

Like they’re just fucking lying and ignoring Very fucking big important ways those are wrong

Fiction Does affect reality why the fuck else would people want good minority rep so fucking bad? Why else would there be people who‘s first step to overcoming their bigotry be fictional characters? You get shows about fictional characters made for all types of different demographics get called propaganda because fiction fucking affects reality.

And Yes fictional characters aren‘t real doesn‘t fucking mean you can do whatever forever and not have it reflect on you. If you can‘t write women, can only depict characters of color as stereotypes, write disabled people only ever as horror yeah that will fucking reflect on you.

And just because you‘re jacking off to it doesn‘t fucking protect it from criticism. If you can only treat a type of person as something to get off too yeah you will be labeled as a piece of shit. Please don‘t tell me we need Another fucking run down on the ways the Ger/udo from tIoz are racist even if you‘re jizzing over belly dancer outfit Link

Fiction doesn‘t exist in a vacuum. Sure no one has to read your incest fanfiction but don‘t fucking act like just because it‘s fiction it is free from being criticized on it‘s premise or depiction. And if you think it should you better never open your goddamn mouth to criticize any depiction of anything in fiction.

"Taboo enjoyers DNI"

DNIs go both ways. If you don't want me to interact with you, do not interact with me. Hypocrisy is unbecoming.

"Why don't you tell people what kind of fictional porn you like?"

Why don't you tell them you spend your free time telling real people to kill themselves and arguing about the rights of people who literally do not exist.

I'll tell my mom that I read about Tony Stark pounding Peter Parker until his ass is as open as a 24/7 McDonald's if you tell yours that you wholeheartedly tell people you hope their families burn alive and they get raped because they ship a human and a celestial being together.

While we're at it, sure, I'll tell my boss I like monsterfucking as long as you tell yours that your break-time hobby is scouring the internet stalking people and harassing them over their kinks.

I might be the freak with a tentacle dildo and a bookmarks page full of nasty, kinky incest, but you're the freak who could literally kill someone.

I know which one I'd rather be.