A lesson in critical thinking

Homework for everyone as we go into a new week of updates!!

How are the dark themes portrayed in this work I'm reading? Is it normalised? Romanticised? Does it make me uncomfortable? Why? Do I like it? Why? Please never stop asking yourself why.

I myself like dark works. Braindead BLs are fun even when they don't make sense. Does that mean I condone everything that happens? No. I will never enjoy or SA someone irl. I am asexual and a recluse. The last time I saw the sun was in a manhwa I read at 2AM last night. Oh and also cause I am a victim of CSA. I will also never normalise or downplay SA if it happens to anyone around me irl. Why? Because I can separate fiction from reality, and understand that these people are real and have their own experiences.

There are people that enjoy and consume dark works exactly because it is in the realm of fiction. There are also people that are outliers and are genuinely fked up, but that's why we develop critical thinking skills so we can differentiate between a real pedophile abuser and Jenny who jacks off to smutty BL she's reading on an illegal website that infringes on creators' hard work. Stay safe and get educated!

i think everyone has questionable side but okay

Yes but puritan culture is a huge thing nowadays esp amongst young people. They're all going "not doing bad" = "everything must be good". They need to seriously reflect about themselves because nothing is a 100% green flag. And even the ones who enjoy questionable things don't even understand themselves or how they should enjoy it safely.

I think I'm okay with a lot of dark things, but again it comes down to separating fiction and reality. And that means acknowledging that yeah what I'm seeing is bad irl, but this is fiction.

There are rare cases where fiction and reality do intertwine, like pedophile mangakas or audiences ero-ing child-looking characters. But that's why it's so important to be able to distinguish these incidents, instead of just lumping it all up together as one big bad thing.

And look at what happened to the Rurouni Kenshin mangaka. Nothing in their works ever suggested they were a pedophile, then turns out they had TERABYTES of child porn, and he didn't even get a heavy punishment and there are fans still consuming his works cause people only want to shout at fictional things but don't actually put the work in when it matters. For comparison, most phones nowadays only go up to a max of 512GB or in some very expensive phones 1TB.

I'm just generally saying btw not @ you, but yeah, this comment will ultimately get lost and forgotten on this site, but /gen for whoever reads this, just understand yourself and these kind of nuanced topics better.

i agree that not everything is green flag tbh most people on this site loves to mix fiction and reality i find it bothersome. u did a great job in explaining . XD couldnt put it in anymore words as u did.