Antis Who Proudly Proclaim They're Going To Become A Therapist So They Can Shut Down And Manipulate And

Antis who proudly proclaim they're going to become a therapist so they can shut down and manipulate and unethically target all the 'nasty proshippers' make me laugh because they're going to get two months into any sort of qualifying course and be slapped in the face by the reality that therapists are obligated to remain objective and impartial and will lose their license if they're found to be using their position to be unfairly bias or negatively target clients based on their own personal beliefs and values.

"Objectivity helps counsellors avoid personal biases and allows them to focus on the client's needs without imposing their own beliefs or values." - American Counselling Association

"Therapy should feel like an inclusive and safe place for clients. Clients need to feel safe and supported in their work. And while all therapists have inherent biases and personal preferences, it is never appropriate for them to engage in discrimination, racism, sexism, or other forms of prejudice with clients." - Medcircle

You do not get into therapy to correct people. You get into therapy to help them. Therapy is not about the therapist.

You'd think it would be a strawman argument, but according to some people simply witnessing a fictional instance of something is enough to blindly convince or convert you to perceiving it as a positive. Often without consequence or regardless of consequence.

If you think the counter-argument sounds ridiculous, that's because the original argument is.

"But this piece of fiction romanticizes [insert bad thing here]!"

Okay. And?

If you aren't self-aware and educated enough to know something is bad regardless of how a tv show or movie or song portrays it, that's a you issue. I've never once watched Hannibal and thought that's a reasonable real life relationship. I've never once watched Game of Thrones and thought hey, maybe fucking your sister isn't such a bad thing.

Romanticizing is simply part of the narrative. If you can't separate the portrayal of something in fiction and how it should be approached in real life, you shouldn't be watching it.

Also. Antis love to say "you're retraumatizing yourself". A) I'm not. And B) so what if I was? Even if I was using fiction as a way to self harm, it still wouldn't be any of their fucking business because it doesn't affect them or anyone else at all

"You're traumatizing yourself!" as if people don't watch scary movies all the time. As if the news isn't consistently full of rape and mass murder and the extensive horrors of humanity. As if you're genuinely hard pressed to find media these days which doesn't in some form blindside you with drugs, sexual assault, casual violence, stalking and an entire pick'n'mix of other traumatizing subjects.

They also need to stop equating temporary emotional distress to deep-rooted trauma. They are not the same thing.

I’m gonna be blunt because I’m tired.

To your previous anon- if there’s anyone who sounds like a potential child predator here, it’s YOU. I know you’ve been convinced otherwise, but actually most adults are NOT attracted to kids and NO amount of fiction will change that. Further, most people are NOT constantly on the verge of committing violent crime, and that includes most of the unlucky people with pedophilic tendencies. Most adults are perfectly able to control themselves. If YOU think reading something might tip you right over into rapist territory, I suggest getting help before you hurt someone.

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The duality between people being antis but also being 'booktokkers' and going absolutely batshit over appallingly written crap like 365 Days and all those 'my stepbrother mafia boss evil werewolf vampire king elf kidnapped me and raped me but loves me so much he's going to marry me and never let me ever look at another man again or he'll kill him with his bare hands' stories is what will drive me to meet the devil

This post is about hypocrisy, ethics and censorship and is not nor will ever be anti-RPF.

We're entering this strange era of fannish existence where we are simultaneously trying to censor everything into oblivion and also be as invasive as we possibly can to celebrities and people of interest.

Like god forbid someone writes smut fic about Henry Cavill on their silly little Tumblr account, but its considered normal that "insider sources" are selling telling you all about his private relationships and paparazzi are photographing him buying groceries.

I can't say 'sex' on TikTok but Daily Mail can take photographs of female celebrities half-naked in their own backyards and talk about their weight and their breasts and how appealing they are or aren't.

We are obsessed with consuming real life, often invasive content about real people, but god forbid we start creating our own so we don't rely on exploiting them and their privacy.