lordhellebore:

antis-delete-your-blogs-pls:

patrexes:

patrexes:

patrexes:

you’re not owed disclosure of csa or incest survivor status because someone reads thorki or wincest or whatever and you don’t like it

also reading something isn’t a dichotomy of COPING vs KINK, like you can read/watch something about rape or incest without getting off on it or using it to try and work through complicated feelings wrt your own experience? sometimes people just read something because it’s a narrative they’re interested in seeing play out

somebody reads fic with rape or abuse in it and y’all are like “you nasty fucking kinkster, the only excuse you could have is being a survivor, are you? i’ll still make you feel bad about this if you are”, but game of thrones or svu or gone girl is fine and not questionable at all i guess

like, why do you assume everyone in the entire world approaches fanfic as id-based selfish fulfillment-type stuff, like porn or projection, and that it can’t be literary?

Because they think women are incapable of thinking for themselves and will inevitably fall prey to the evil messages of impurity frequently found in fic. Like women can’t differentiate fiction from reality or something 🤔

Antis have the mindset of the 18th century novel panic when it comes to women and reading. 

Don’t believe me?

If, however, Novels are to be prohibited, in what, it will be asked, can the young mind employ itself during the hours of necessary leisure? To this it may be answered, that when the sweetened poison is removed, plain and wholesome food will always be relished. The growing mind will crave nourishment, and will gladly seek it in true histories, written in a pleasing and easy style, on purpose for its use. (Vicesimus Knox, Essays Moral and Literary, 1778, no. XIV: 304)

And he’s not alone.

Novels have been long and frequently regarded not as being merely useless
to society, but even as pernicious, from the very indifferent morality, and
ridiculous way of thinking, which they almost generally inculcate. Why
then, in the name of the common sense, should such an useless and pernicious
commodity, with which we are over-run, go duty-free, wile the really
useful necessary of life is taxed to the utmost extent? A tax on books of this
description only (for books of real utility should ever be circulated free as
air) would bring in a very considerable sum for the service of Government,
without being levied on the poor or the industrious.
(The Gentlemen’s Magazine, December 1789, vol. LVII: 1048-1049)

Not by far.

Women, of every age, of every condition, contract and retain a taste for
novels […T]he depravity is universal. My sight is every-where offended by
these foolish, yet dangerous, books. I find them on the toilette of fashion,
and in the work-bag of the sempstress; in the hands of the lady, who
lounges on the sofa, and of the lady, who sits at the counter. From the mistresses
of nobles they descend to the mistresses of snuff-shops – from the
belles who read them in town, to the chits who spell them in the country. I
have actually seen mothers, in miserable garrets, crying for the imaginary
distress of an heroine, while their children were crying for bread: and the
mistress of a family losing hours over a novel in the parlour, while her
maids, in emulation of the example, were similarly employed in the kitchen.
I have seen a scullion-wench with a dishclout in one hand, and a novel in
the other, sobbing o’er the sorrows of Julia, or a Jemima. (Sylph no. 5, October 6, 1796: 36-37) 

No, really.

“What shall we say of certain books, which we are assured (for we have not read them) are in their nature so shameful, in their tendency so pestiferous, and contain such rank treason against the royalty of Virtue, such horrible violation of all decorum, that she who can bear to peruse them must in her soul be a prostitute, let her reputation in life be what it will.” – (James Fordyce, Sermons to Young Women)

Of course, they themselves are the only ones who are except from this danger, because they know how to consume this terrible content critically.