ImpTwins
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winterayars
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Let's be honest, antis just get upset with any adult content that isn't heteronormative and patriarchal in nature. They'd object to that characterization but their actions are clear.

There's another angle to this, though. Maybe i'm a little older than most people involved in this debate, but back when i was young this wasn't even a question. It was immoral. Moreover, the general sense was it was ILLEGAL. Or at least it should be. It wasn't just grounds to get harassed on the internet (which wasn't really a thing back then), it was grounds for people to come beat the shit out of you, maybe kill you if they thought they could get away with it.

Before my time there were things like the Hays Code, too. And don't think "Oh that's fine I just won't give my idea to Hollywood, then" because then what? You keep it in your desk for your kids to find when you die because there was no other way to get it out into the world.

My generation fought the previous generations for the right to write this shit, to draw it, to make content about it. We defended it, we argued for it when some stupid trash tier anime had some problematic content in it. We stood up and went "Now wait a second..." when insane, drunken, coked up housewives worked themselves up into a frenzy about Dungeons and Dragons.

And as a result of that the way was cleared for all this new content. Not just the problematic stuff, but the non-problematic stuff, too! (Or rather: stuff people today, including antis, don't think of as problematic.) LGBT content was just as forbidden as rape was--moreso, even. If antis get their way, that's the world we're going back to. Because antis don't have an actual moral or ethical argument beyond "it makes me feel icky" and, i promise you, gay content makes way more people feel icky than rape does even today in 2024.

But more than that: in the last 30-50 years we've had some major advances in how we talk about this stuff, how we think about it, how we understand it. Not just in the sense of developing a better understanding of sex and gender, which was tied into--really, which required--the increased freedom to talk about problematic content, but also in the sense of professional psychologists and psychiatrists.

A lot of the understanding of trauma and shit that we have required people feeling willing to talk about it, and that required them to feel safe and comfortable to talk about it in a way that made them feel safe. You may not like it, but you have to give them space to do it if you want the benefits that come of it. That's not me trying to make some rule or something, that's the real world.

But the antis don't care. They don't understand any of that, they don't understand the history of how we came to this point and they don't care either. Maybe that's my generation's fault for going "phew, finally we got some space for ourselves" and then not keeping up the fight as much as we could have or something but fuck, man, we were fucking tired. Seeing the next generations turn their back on all that work and all the freedom that came of it is really disheartening.

So i don't describe myself as a "pro-shipper" or something like that because, frankly, i don't think that's a real thing. I'm just not an anti-fan. I'm normal. In this one sense, like the only time in my life i'm ever going to say it: I'm normal. The antis are the fucked up weirdos and i wish they would see that and work on improving themselves.


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