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While fiction ≠ reality it literally IMPACTS reality. Books/movies/art have and always have a message told through them. The way JAWS gave people a mass hysteria about sharks, and shooter games have massively desensitised players to violence and gore. The entirety of fiction is BASED upon reality and always has whether yall like it or not. If you see fiction as a way of coping, that's completely normal - but if you see it as a way to excuse predatory or incestuous behaviour, the call might as well be coming from inside the house. Topics like rape/pedophilia/incest/DV should be handled in a respectful way bcs guess what, they exist IRL. These aren't things that solely exist fictionally and many people have gone through these things, portraying them in a positive/normal way is extremely damaging especially those who use these materials to cope from the abuse they have suffered from it. Also people have freedom of speech and freewill, they can criticise a work that DESERVES to be talked shit about. Cry about it