This Post Is About Hypocrisy, Ethics And Censorship And Is Not Nor Will Ever Be Anti-RPF.

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.

I'm so sick of antis and their arguments. "But predators read this!" Yes, and? I'd rather a thousand predators read kinky fanfiction about people who don't exist, no matter their ages, than even one real, living child get hurt.

This is actually a point I do find myself having to present constantly to antis who are convinced that it is solely fanfiction and fandom spaces that enable predators.

Completely setting aside the fact that literature and creative activities are used in therapy and allocated as victimless outlets, if someone has the increased risk factor of committing a crime, they are going to do it regardless of stimuli.

Psychology will tell you that if the fixation is there, if the intent is there, action is an inevitability.

Actual child rapists have, in the past, admitted that something as simple as a back to school clothing advert has prompted them to attack a child.

If we do magically cleanse the earth of fanfiction, do you know what will happen?

Predators will still exist. Predators will still find stimuli. Predators will still have their own enclosed spaces where they'll create and share stimuli.

And because I know the more fanatical antis will read this and immediately decide and declare that I condone predators and pedophilia:

No. I do not. But I do have a realistic understanding of the way things work in life. I do not hide and pretend I live in a magical world where predators will simply cease to exist if I get rid of anything and everything I deem to sustain them.

They will not.

And circling back to the point the anon makes, yes, I would absolutely prefer that if fanfiction helps a person to find a healthy and safe outlet for their urges and desires, they read the fucking fanfiction.

Fictional characters do not exist, will never exist, and are not in any form equitable to real life people. "If you can do these things to fictional characters you could do them to real people" is quite literally the stupidest argument that absolutely any sociologist or psychologist could tear into nanoparticles in about two seconds flat.

Predators exist in every single space. They have never needed one specific community or space in order to cause harm or source victims, and they never will. Its like a hydra; if you cut off one means they will find another. There are dangerous predators in the anti community just as much as there are those in the proshipping one, but hat's also a fact that antis love to pretend doesn't exist.

By the way, its been proven over and over again than you are not protecting people by isolating them from information and truths. In fact, you're often doing the opposite. Ignorance is far more harmful than knowledge.

What you should be fighting for is for that information, truth and knowledge to be obtained in safe, healthy manners and understood.

ive been seeing and agreeing with your posts reblogged on my dash for weeks now and never once would i ever have expected what your name is. i love that for you get their asses sephiroth

I'm coming for their asses like a goth white girl with a strap on at her golden retriever boyfriend

Bit of a reflexive rant, hope you don't mind. I'm starting to believe that anti-shippers just, genuinely, do not understand you can enjoy or have your interest piqued by taboo in fiction, and not endorse it in real life. Does that mean everything they watch, read and listen to is stuff that they morally approve of? In which case, if they happened to enjoy: Breaking Bad, South Park, 50 Shades of Gray, Mindless Self Indulgence, etc. ("problematic" media); wouldn't it indicate, by that line of thought, that they (consumers) are "bad" people?

And if any dare respond to this with: "well, there's nuance to that!"; I will be sorely disappointed, and not at all surprised, with the hypocrisy.

I can also smell the: "but what about (paraphilia)". I do not care. My main point still stands.

The thing that trips most antis up is the involvement of sexual gratification or arousal. Its why they'll always skip things like murder and go straight into pedophilia or sexual/romantic relationships with a serious imbalance.

Its also an aspect where you'll find they are most hypocritical.

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