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The best way to make a mentally ill person not give up on learning tap is to show them SpongeBob the musical. They'll gather up all their strength in the hopes that one day they'll be able to perform "I'm not a loser" on a stage ironically.

My opinion on the whole romanticization/censorship debate is basically, it mostly depends on what medium we're talking about.

Because fanfiction and webcomics are known to be self-indulgent garbage. You can write your messed up fantasies in a fanfic or a webcomic, and people will UNDERSTAND that you don't mean that literally. But professionally published novels, movies and tv shows all have a level of credibility to them that comes from the fact that people really do often think, on some level, "if this was passed through a committee, it can't be THAT bad". Which is why people a lot more often try and find thematic or in-story justification to, for example, the sexualization of characters who are SAed in the story, and people literally only buy it for professionally published stuff. People trust fiction with authority more. And also these mediums are WAY more likely to have young children exposed to them. Like, yeah, kids getting into internet porn is a problem, don't get me wrong, but a child would usually be interested in an edgy, forbidden "dark romance" book/movie before they would be in explicitly abusive pornography, because these stories are not usually really presented as "oh yeah it's a fantasy of something that would realistically be completely evil that we like to indulge in because it satisfies an emotional need we have", which is an appeal that interests children less than "it's forbidden temptation and my parents told my it's not for my age". So yeah, I do think that almost every piece of art, no matter how indulgent- and I do say "almost" because even within this framework, there are some fantasies that I think you definitely shouldn't be allowed to write about because they CAN ACTUALLY CAUSE REAL HARM, aka Nazi shit, sexually explicit content about real-life children or (though to a lesser extent considering the grey areas in what can be considered "reason") just generally real-life people who you have reason to assume won't be comfortable with that, violence against public figures you don't like (Anita Sarkeesian rings a bell to anyone? Do you guys honestly believe that the fantasies people wrote, drew and programmed about her back then are defensible under free speech? No I don't like all her takes on media either, that's irrelevant. Do you honestly believe that?), things like that- has a right to exist in a specific context in which people understand it for what it is.

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Is there a way to ask what it looks like when you get arrested, taken to a police station and bail yourself out as research for a story without sounding like a massive asshole?

One of my favorite types of stories out there, is the one where the story shows multiple different perspectives and scenarios in which the same SPECIFIC real-world problem is explored from different angles. Bonus points if the problem is categorically something that mainstream media is incentivized to overlook.

Example: so I just watched Beetlejuice 2, and I legit really REALLY loved how the story of "girl/woman feels isolated from society because of problems in her own life that are legit too much for her to handle, gets involved with guy who really fucks her up", which in the real world, happened too many fucking times to count, got explored in this film through three different stories, WHICH ARE ALL REAL.

Jeremy's the edgy asshole you thought was really awesome when you were way too young to recognize red flags when you saw them, who you thought was so charming and cool because he was just so sweet at first, who dragged you in when you just wanted someone to listen and ended up locking you into genuinely dangerous situations because he just didn't fucking care. That's real. That happens. And I'm glad it was shown.

Rory's the exploitative fucker who will find you when you're in a low point, love-bomb you when you're too emotionally drained to do anything but cling onto his support and manipulate the hell out of you in order to turn you into a codependent object for his use. Now, the Rorys of the real world are usually not as often in it for the money as much as they are for the emotional validation that comes from satisfying their savior complex, but there definitely ARE cases in which they financially exploit their partners. That's real. That happens. And I'm glad it was shown.

Beetlejuice is (and this one I actually have quite a familiarity with) that equally broken enabler who feels so much more free than you to walk around fucking other people's shit up according to his whims in ways that genuinely terrify you but you don't dare to say anything about, who keeps clinging to you and saying that you and him "understand each other so well!" And you can tell that his behavior is basically what your behavior could be if the societal trauma forcing you to repress and turn your untreated mental illness onto yourself was gone, so that you genuinely DO feel a sense of comradely with him, even though he's fucking scaring you, won't take no for an answer and treats you as an equal target as anyone else for his own issues which he insists on turning into everybody else's problem. That's real. That fucking happens. And I'm SO FUCKING GLAD IT WAS SHOWN.

Also, another reason I'm glad this specific scenario was shown- women in media are so often portrayed as these perfectly put-together centers of reason and balance, and GOODNESS am I glad to see a movie that for once actually explores what it looks like when they get crushed under external pressure. Because like. That happens a lot. There's a lot of pressure to living as a woman in society. It often crushes women. And people really only want to explore that in specific case studies of discrimination and abuse. But not here, and I love that.

And also, like. Presenting MULTIPLE socially-outcasted women who's personality isn't immediately turned into a prop that is then used to further the development of their male love interest IN THE SAME STORY? LOVE THAT LOVE THAT LOVE THAT.

So anyways, yeah, that's why I consider Beetlejuice 2 to be an incredibly feminist story which does an amazing job as showing female characters as real people while also presenting specific gendered struggles which they face. Love that.