profic/proship/darkship are excuses to justify gross behavior

all of those actively affect reality, no matter how much they tell you fiction does affect reality:
https://psmag.com/social-justice/reading-fiction-impacts-aggressive-behavior-35839
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/04/28/why-fiction-good-for-you-how-fiction-changes-your-world/nubDy1P3viDj2PuwGwb3KO/story.html
https://www.fastcompany.com/1842370/how-fiction-impacts-fact-social-impact-books

TW for gore, rape, torture, murder, and abuse:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2101206/real-life-crimes-inspired-by-films-and-tv-shows-including-scream-copycat-murders-and-a-foiled-saw-torture-plot/
https://www.newsweek.com/nine-horrible-real-life-crimes-were-inspired-movie-or-novel-583828
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/teen-kills-brother-loves-dexter-life-imitating-art/story?id=13161191
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2099032/japanese-man-charged-sexual-assault-used-radiation-inspector
https://thoughtcatalog.com/james-swift/2016/10/5-times-the-chucky-movies-inspired-horrifically-real-acts-of-murder-and-torture/
https://ia801604.us.archive.org/13/items/NeighborhoodKidsSeeMeAndCallMeWORMMANMasksellerTeasourcesDiabolicking.../neighborhood%20kids%20see%20me%20and%20call%20me%20%27WORM%20MAN%27%2C%20maskseller_%20teasources_%20diabolicking_%20....html

its not "purity culture" its called being fucking normal, im chill with "taboo" topics if they're handles correctly, such as being treated as actual trauma and NOT romanticized. it is NOT "exposure therapy", exposure therapy is meant to HELP you recognize your trauma, to cope properly with it, and how to get out of those situations.
for example: if an abuse victim goes into exposure therapy, they are NOT told to romanticize or normalize their trauma; even in fiction. IF they are recommended to interact with such media it is NOT for those reasons; it is to recognize what is abusive.

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I think a discussion needs to had about purity culture largely because what it meant years ago is not the same as what people try to slap it on everything today. I think people are using it as an empty excuse for certain things. Like I get it for some things we should handle or take them bluntly, and have freedom be exercised but having a filter or...... reply

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