- death threats + suicide baiting are never okay
- fujoshi are generally just women using relationships between two men to examine their own sexualities without having to see themselves in those toxic situations. this does not make their unintentional homophobia okay. these are not mutually exclusive opinions.
- i think that fiction is a means of exploring things in a safe, controlled environment, and that liking something in fiction doesn't necessarily mean condoning it in real life. i also think that this is an issue that mostly affects marginalized + traumatized people, and that we should be sensitive to that fact.
- artists should be allowed to create whatever they please so long as it doesn't hurt any real people in the process of being made.
- likewise, all consumers of art should be allowed to freely express their opinions on art (critical or otherwise) as long as it isn't through attacking/harassing other people.
- it's not an artist's responsibility to make sure their audience knows the difference between fiction and reality, but it is an artist's job to make sure that their art only reaches its proper audience (through tagging, keeping it within certain communities, etc.)
- i think that fandom wank isn't a worthwhile use of time. this includes character discourse, shipping discourse, etc.
- implying that someone needs to reveal their trauma in order to be "allowed" to enjoy certain things in fiction puts trauma survivors in danger and is also just a really inconsiderate thing to do
- i think anybody who describes themselves as an "anti" or an "anti-anti" or whatever takes fandom discourse way too personally
dec 6 2018 ∞
dec 6 2018 +