Reading The Anti Takes About AO3 Feels Exactly Like This

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Wow... I was dead for a while, wasn't I? Anyways, have a Fran - art!

They discovered a neat hack. It lets them accuse people of a crime so bad that reasonable people are reluctant to try to defend the accused. It also allows them to imagine the most extreme punishments on the accused. Also, the emotional response of revulsion makes you easy to be manipulated by people who want you to focus your energy on whatever you're disgusted by, whether real or not.

It also means they never have to question the morality of their behavior since the "them" they are targeting are so depraved it justifies almost any actions to stop them.

From a post on reddit about why certain people "are obsessed with pedos". I felt this was relevant here.

The original context was in relation to Q anon, but it's the exact same behavior that we see from antishippers.

Ya'll will put people actively supporting ongoing genocide, those who want trans people eradicated, and people who ship the wrong pair of blorbos on the same level of dangerous then wonder why no one treats your call outs and warnings of danger seriously anymore.

In the aftermath of my big post about censorship, multiple people have left comments that boil down to, "it's okay to show heavy topics in fiction as long as they're portrayed as bad."

Let's take a quick look at an excerpt from the full ext of the Hays Code, shall we?

No picture should lower the moral standards of those who see it. This is done: (a) When evil is made to appear attractive, and good is made to appear unattractive. (b) When the sympathy of the audience is thrown on the side of crime, wrong-doing, evil, sin.The same thing is true of a film that would throw sympathy against goodness, honor, innocence, purity, honesty. note: Sympathy with a person who sins, is not the same as sympathy with the sin or crime of which he is guilty. We may feel sorry for the plight of the murderer or even understand the circumstances which led him to his crime; we may not feel sympathy with the wrong which he has done. The presentation of evil is often essential for art, or fiction, or drama. This in itself is not wrong, provided: (a) That evil is not presented alluringly. Even if later on the evil is condemned or punished, it must not be allowed to appear so attractive that the emotions are drawn to desire or approve so strongly that later they forget the condemnation and remember only the apparent joy of the sin. (b) That thruout the presentation, evil and good are never confused and that evil is always recognized clearly as evil. (c) That in the end the audience feels that evil is wrong and good is right

This is the same Hays Code that supported Nazis. This is the same Hays Code that forced Jewish artists out of Hollywood. This is the same Hays Code that targeted artists of color, queer artists, female artists, any artist who deviated from the white American Catholic ideal. And it was explicitly Catholic, which I explained in further depth here.

The idea that art has to have a clear moral, which lines up with the dominant morals of white American Christianity, is foundational to the Hays Code. If you sound like the Hays Code, you need to re-evaluate.

Censorship and moral codes enforced on art are never used for anything other than oppression. The second you try to dictate what is and isn't allowable in art, you side with people who will enforce those rules on marginalized people with no mercy and no hesitation.

Censorship does not create healthy relationships with media, even the censorship you might be tempted to think of as "good censorship."

(And, as usual, being an independent censorship researcher does very little to pay my bills. Kick me a tip on Ko-Fi or pledge to me on Patreon if you want to support my work! <3)

I'm going to be fully honest, I hate the use of problematic as a coined term for fictional ships. I feel like problematic has just become one of those terms tossed around at anything and everything and often used as a gotcha net.

"I don't care about your ships as long as they're not problematic."

Okay. Are we talking about incest or just a ship where they have clashing political opinions?

Am I not allowed to ship the sentient wolf creature with the twink or am I not allowed to ship the two middle aged store clerks who have different views on wanting children?

What if one half of my canon ship gets de-aged to eighteen? Is it suddenly problematic to ship them for as long as that character remains de-aged?

What kind of age brackets are we defining as problematic these days? What are the cut-off points for when its not problematic for two people to fall in love? What if one person has a birthday before the other one and for a few months they're not part of that acceptable bracket anymore?

Problematic is just being used as a one-word way to shut people down and force them to comply with your own expectations and boundaries. Problematic is thrown around as a way to box people into behaving and existing in ways that make you comfortable.

"I don't like the way that you exist so I'm going to brand you as this negative word that forces you to change to suit my preferences or be shunned by society."

Problematic means to constitute as or to present a problem. It is not the shiny new term for 'if you ship this thing you're a terrible person.'

Not an analysis post, but I just want to share to you this part that I noticed when I re-watched Yorknew City arc.

Remember in episode 56 or something when they had to search for the scarlet eyes to track Kurapika?

Look at the whole troupe looking for it:

They're all working so hard and then there's that MF clown:

THIS MF CLOWN

This man. He's just standing over some wooden boxes and not even trying to look like he's searching for the scarlet eyes. Not even trying put in a millimeter ounce of effort.

And you know what else is crazy?

Do you see where he's facing towards? He's facing towards somewhere in the right-corner of the place.

And of course he's looking down. And do you know who is in the direction he's looking at?

Frickin' Machi.

This man decided to spend his time hovering over Machi. Scarlet eyes who? Only Machi.

I bet he was flirting and bothering her all throughout xD

No wonder Machi is so done with him and Phantom Troupe assigned Machi to him. If this is how Hisoka is, then oml it all makes sense.

Of course, they just gave up on making him do work. He's beyond saving

Advocate.com

Outrage in Seattle after ‘raids’ of several gay bars citing ‘lewd conduct’ laws

The authorities deny that it was a raid, but bar owners, managers, and patrons are asking what else to call it.

Nobody better ever fucking tell me the fight for rights is over.

Antis SHOULDN'T watch series/movies or read books, because that's literally stalking fucking people. 💀

You are literally watching the character PERSONAL stuff and LIFE without their consent, most of these "characters" that represent real people of course, are KIDS AND 100 YEAR OLD DEMON CHARACTERS WHO HAVE THE FACE OF A 10 YEAR OLD GIRLSSS, and they DON'T KNOW you're there.

That's just pedo behavior frfr. 🙄🙄🙄

Like, that's so fucking twisted bro, ew. 😟

"What have I done?"

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