It’s grown men out here fucking stuffed My Little Pony dolls and ruining a children’s cartoon to the point where kids can’t even google it without being assaulted by Rule 34, but sure let’s not judge people for their fandom habits because that’s petty and dramatic. I don’t think y’all realize (or maybe you don’t care) that predators, abusers, and bigots occupy fandom spaces too, and don’t think they not smart enough to couch their sick and disgusting interests in language that makes t sound reasonable and agreeable. This isn’t like some ‘date me mothman’ type shit. Like folks out here really exploring sick ass pedo and incest fantasies via fandom and we supposed to just sit here and let them because y’all don’t wanna cause ‘drama’? Literally shut the fuck up, Susan. Just because you white and literally none of the shitty parts of fandom affect you outside of someone not liking your dumbass ship doesn’t mean the rest of us have to keep quiet when the fandom is anything but fun and safe for us.
I can’t fucking stand that mealy-mouthed fauxgressive ‘ship and let ship’ shit for that reason.
Gee, that’s funny. I’ve done a Google search for My Little Pony with Safe Search OFF, and found absolutely nothing:
The reality is that probably 90% of the people you’re bitching at are teenage girls, and the shit people like you are doing and saying is actively harming and shaming them at a point in their lives when they’re trying to figure out their own sexuality:
The internet? It’s not a babysitter. It’s the job of PARENTS to keep their kids safe–NOT total strangers. Furthermore, your mental well-being isn’t our responsibility, either. It’s frankly manipulative to try to force that onto people that don’t even know you. You honestly cannot expect millions of people the world over to be PG every moment of the day. That’s asinine and unrealistic. With that said, parents have tools at their disposal to filter out what they don’t want to be seen. So do YOU. If you’re old enough to be on tumblr, you’re old enough to have some personal fuckin’ accountability. I may not like everything I see on here, but I also know I can’t do anything to stop anyone, and neither can you. In the end, you’re not only wasting your time, but you’re probably causing people to make more of what you don’t like just to spite you (hello? Streisand Effect, anyone?). In other words, being a loud, obnoxious, intrusive asshole is just making things even worse for you.
Not only does fiction not impact reality, it’s like a valve: It may very well PREVENT real children from being victimized, and there is legitimate study behind this. Not that any of you truly care about anyone besides yourselves, and being personally inconvenienced by seeing things you can easily avoid.
As for claims of “grooming”, you don’t seem to understand how that process actually works. An abuser can groom a victim without ever using anything sexual whatsoever. It’s about trust. It can be something as simple as an interest in model airplanes–does that make those “problematic”? As for those abusers, chances are that they’re not some random stranger on the internet, but someone known to the victim. You may not want to hear this, but the greatest threat to children statistically? Their own mothers.
You need to understand that you don’t speak for every person. None of you in the notes prior to this reblog do. You don’t represent millions of others, including the many CSA victims who have stepped forward to disagree with your claims many times, only to be dismissed as if their personal experiences didn’t matter. The things you’re seeing now? They’ve been in fandoms for a long time (Google “Tijuana bibles”…this shit’s been around for literally 100 YEARS), and yet, they don’t seem to have affected the rest of us. As shown in an earlier link, all types of violent crime and abuse have dramatically gone down as our media has become increasingly violent, and increasingly available. Your argument just does not hold up to reality.
Anyhow, I know you’re not even going to bother to read any of this, and will probably also assume my race and gender, as if that’s somehow relevant to the discussion, and doesn’t just make you look hilariously immature.
Also their assumption that the MLP fandom does nothing to prevent R34 from showing up in safesearch is absolutely false.
The fandom actually does a regular cleaning out of R34 from safesearch, known as Safe Search Wrap Up.
So they are actively trying to prevent porn from being shown to kids.
what a good ask. censorship is always great in the first person (I censor dangerous content) and oppressive in the third person (they censor dangerous content). And it’s not just a tool of authoritarianism: it’s a tool of maintaining the status quo.
what many antis fail to consider is that while they’re out here getting offended at disgusting fanworks and demanding they disappear, people with far more power and authority than them are offended, too, and want those same works to disappear … in addition to hundreds of thousands of other works.
that ‘every ship I hate is pedophilia’ sword that anti-shippers picked up? that’s a favorite conservative mantra against all content containing LGB/queer sexual orientations. (‘Gay’ and ‘pedophile’ were treated as quite the same thing in mainstream American consciousness up until very, very recently.)
The ‘non-vanilla/kinky fan content is abuse apologism and inappropriate sexualization’ dagger? SWERF rhetoric against sex workers repurposed for fandom, which itself bears a striking resemblance to puritan repression of sexual expression. (also: kink and queer/LGBT communities have a long, friendly history. Is it coincidence conservatives hate kink, even straight kinksters? I think not.)
the ‘mlm fiction is only for mlm to create and consume’ maul? it’s the exact same weapon against queer representation in the mainstream relabled to sound progressive. (conservatives don’t care if you’re trying to protect straight people from ‘corruption’ or gay men from ‘fetishization’: either way, non-straight content is out of the picture!)
In a bittersweet way, it’s good news that younger fandom members who are LGBT/queer and/or like non-straight/non-cis content are utterly free of fear that somebody will try to censor fan content simply for being LGBT/queer. It goes to show how far we’ve come in online – and to some degree, offline! – spaces in promoting acceptance of non-straight orientations and non-cis gender identities.
Unfortunately, antis use the same anti-minority censorship weapons on ‘smaller’ targets, and I worry that it will blind them to the warning signs of incoming content purges. they’ll be in for a very unpleasant shock if a bigger fish comes into our little fandom pond and reminds us all what these censorship weapons are really for: destroying anything that doesn’t suit the comfort zone of the mainstream population. (such as – drumroll, please – LGBT/queer content of any kind. (sorry antis – that includes sfw kl@nce.))
(and all of this applies to more than lgbt/queer content, of course. it’s just been the main thing to come up again and again.)
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