why are the kids the one trying to police us?

comment sections are for opinions, don’t dish it out if you can’t handle it. especially with toxic themes, even the most vanilla thing will get backlack. grow a backbone in the nicest way. fiction represents real things and people can have critisim on that. take it to heart or don’t

this is the 4th time somebody's bringing this topic up today lmao (me included) idk whats up w that. but i personally havent seen anyone 'police' others? other than ragebaiters, i dont think people go around saying this is what u should read, and this is what u shouldnt. UNLESS its stuff that is straight up rape porn or pedophilic content. if u mean critique on how certain topics are dealt with in fiction, then thats inevitable. EVERY piece of media is open to critique, why should yaoi be an exception? people dont complain about dark topics being present, they complain about how they're portrayed, and often fetishised and normalised in works. only after constant criticism can media evolve. u say stay out of spaces that discuss toxic topics, but discussion includes criticism of how things are handled, and not just positive things. its okay to be critical of certain plot points, voice them out, and yet still enjoy the rest of the work. and its okay to dislike someone else's opinion, disagree even, and not feel like they shouldn't have voiced it out in the first place. hope i made sense.

Samee.. im so tired of people leaving "critique" when they clearly only read the beginning of the story. Like, if you haven't read the entire chapter don't leave a critique. Judging a story based only on the beginning is unfair and unhelpful. Ive read well written stories with excellent character development that judged unfairly by people who cant be critical enough with what they read.I mean if from you gave your personal opinion on the story is fine but telling others who like those stories degregating words to define them is just shitty.

Degrading *

i do have a backbone. i've always been a dldr type of person when it comes to fiction. you can have your opinions and you're free to voice your criticism on the story - i've done that myself - but that's not the issue here. it starts to get weird when people are getting called "whores" and "retarded" for saying toxic stories should exist. where they attribute the cause of their trauma because they read toxic stories instead of blaming the perpetrators. that i think is the issue. you don't get to prance around here and start criticizing the moral compass of adults when we all know it's just fiction.

i'm not talking about critiquing stories. i'm all for that. i think it's nice to have discussions about that and discuss how authors could've approached this and that in the plot. all gucci. the issue for me lies in the fact that some of these people think they're on a moral high ground for not liking toxic stories. it's not discussion anymore when these people are calling readers "rapists", "groomers", "whores", "retarded", and whatever negative perceptions they have towards the readers. those words are being thrown around like they don't have any weight to them. it's scary to think that the word "pedophile" has been thrown around to accuse people when organizations against csam have been trying to educate us why those terms can't and should be used with caution. these people are just so performative that it irks me.

*can and should be used with caution

oh okay, i agree w u then ! i also don't think attacking anyone with such insults is okay no matter what they consume. i dont think consuming, for example a lot of rape content or dark abusive stories makes someone a rapist or an abuser lmao, idk if i agree with the morality thing bc although consuming such stuff is okay, when i see people actively enjoying rape and excusing it and glorifying it, saying how hot it is, then i dont think they have the same morals as a person who doesnt do all this, even if its fiction. but that's just me, a lot of people disagree with this take and that's okay. same with people who find fictional depictions of children hot, they might not be a pedophile irl but imo people normally shouldn't be attracted to children even in fiction. we can agree to disagree on this though, that's fine. again, i agree w u on how insulting people to this extent is wrong, im sorry if u had to go through that ! a lot of people here are extremely unhinged, on both sides of the coin, and its better to usually block such weirdos. tc =)