beta
I don't understand why you go out of your way to read media that contains "problematic" content and then turn around, point your fingers at everyone else and call them sick and fetishists just because they are able to distinguish between fiction and reality and you are not.
either you stay away from this kind of media, or you admit to yourself that you don't actually see this as actual rape. not liking it is totally fine btw - I think most here are not big fans of the rape scenes either. I'm also getting tired of rape scenes being used as plot devices, but I also understand that neither are these characters real, nor will they ever be real, therefore they cannot ever be harmed.
did Hannibal fans become cannibals themselves? do people who play shooter games regularly go out and kill people?
do people who watched Game of Thrones then go and fuck their sibling?
No! because if they did do that, it wasn't the media's fault at all, it's the people themselves!
fiction is fiction - yeah it has an impact on real life in the way that it has an impact on people's emotions and these are real. but if you actually think that rape scenes in BL are turning people into rapists, then please wait a few years until your frontal lobe is better developed and think about it again.
because I have never, not a single time, thought rape is okay because I've been reading media that contains rape scenes. if you have, however - please get help and I don't mean this in a condescending way, but genuinely. it is not normal to feel that way over fictional media.
rapists are rapists - not because they read too much media that contains rape scenes, but because we live in a system that tolerates rape too much. and you think the issue lies within the BL community, mostly made up by women and queer people - the demographic that is normally the victim instead of perpetrator??
do you even realize you are harassing real people over fictional characters? which is more important - real people with real feelings or fictional people that only exist in our world as lines or words?