Tag / fandom wank

by crowfooted

shipping-isnt-morality:

Another realization: “disgust as morality” leads directly to “mere exposure leads to moral decay”

As you are exposed to something frequently, you become acclimatized to it. It stops eliciting disgust. This happens with everything from gore to porn.

There has been research after research showing that fictional depictions don’t lower empathy for real victims or decrease the perceived severity of the crime, but it does lower disgust reactions at fictional depictions of it.

To antis, this lack of disgust is the normalization they are fighting against, because disgust is how you know something is wrong. If you no longer feel disgust, your morality is compromised.

That’s what I mean when I say antis resemble Puritan Christian morality. Christianity has so many conflicting instructions regarding morality, and many areas where it’s flat-out vague. And yet they know exactly what is good and natural, and what is horrifying and sinful.

How? It’s disgusting.

Antis are impossible to argue with, because the logical arguments are made post hoc to defend what they already know: this disgusts me because it is wrong. The disgust is the true basis of their argument, and no reasoned argument will touch it.

There has been research after research showing that fictional depictions don’t lower empathy for real victims or decrease the perceived severity of the crime

by crowfooted

weconqueratdawn:

ardwynna:

I wonder where the break happened that such wide swaths of younger fans don’t grasp fandom things that used to be unspoken understandings. That fic readers are expected to know fiction from reality,  that views expressed in fic are not necessarily those of the author, that the labels, tags and warnings on various kinkfics are also the indication that they were created for titillation and not much more, please use responsibly as per all pornography. The ‘problem’ isn’t that so-called ‘problematic’ fic exists but that some of the audience is being stupid, irresponsible, at worst criminal, at best not old enough to be in the audience to begin with. And that’s on the consumer, not the author who told you via labels, tags, ratings, warnings and venues what their fic was about and what it was for.

I can’t stress enough how important this post is

by crowfooted

crisencrisis:

Now that Disney owns Fox I know this is going to start again, so I’m saying this:

If you ship MCU Spideypool: Great, is your life and your choice, and as long as you know it’s fiction and don’t go defending pedophilia in real life, you can ship them or any other pairing. I don’t, but I don’t mind either, I know that sometimes fiction is an outlet and a way to work things out, and you shouldn’t feel ashamed of what you like or not. However, if you are going to upload something of them in that form, maybe use a special tag to make easier for people to block it, so they don’t see it if they don’t want to. The Spideypool tag is too general, but MCU Spideypool of something like that can help.

If you don’t ship MCU Spideypool, but do ship Spideypool in other forms: Great, is your life and your choice. Just please, don’t go saying other people they’re disgusting and comparing them to pedophiles just because you as a person cannot sepparate fiction from reality. And by no way feel proud of attacking real people for fictional characters, because that’s definitely not right. Now, if you feel real frustrated and want to say all that you hate about MCU Spideypool, ok, I guess sometimes you need an outlet too, but as a favour, please try to not use the tag at least? It can make someone uncomfortable.

And if you don’t ship Spideypool in any way: Great, it’s your life and your choice, as long as you respect the fact that some people do ship them.

And if you really hate the pairing: Great, just don’t use the tag of the pairing to shame others, go find someone that hates them as much as you do and chat for a while, laugh and share, but keep it to yourselves, or use an anti tag.

We all can have different things we like or hate, but it doesn’t matter how much you like or not something fictional: DO NOT ATTACK OR SHAME REAL PEOPLE FOR LIKING SOMETHING IN FICTION.

LIKING SOMETHING IN FICTION DOES NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT WHAT THEY APPROVE IN REALITY.