#and this goes for pro jedi ppl too calling the esb facpov christian purity culture

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begging people to stop framing the jedi as “repressed christian purity culture” because that erases how real life purity culture is a force of prejudice against people who reject romance and sex

to elaborate: those cultures enshrine heterosexual marriage and procreation as holy, good, natural, desirable. no version of christianity (correct me if i’m wrong) says sex and romance is bad in real life—how can they, when heterosexual sex and romance is supposed to be sacred, is a divine mandate of god? it is only non-heterosexual expressions of sex and romance that are considered unnatural and bad, including the wholesale rejection of sex and romance. if you don’t want sex or romance, you are abnormal and inhuman and an aberration. you refuse to follow god’s plan. you don’t exist. (catholics are slightly better at this w/ consecrated life and single life, but it’s still framed as giving up this universal, good, intrinsically-human desire).

im tired of how ppl frame purity culture in fiction and real life. it completely misses how it is not anti-romance/sex, it’s pro this one very specific form of romance/sex, and this is absolutely not applicable to the jedi. how hard is it to not make up a romanceless and/or sexless society, opine on how horrible that must be, and completely ignore how the real world constantly dehumanizes people who reject romance and sex?

i’m not saying you can’t enjoy these stories. but please don’t ignore what real life purity culture is like. it doesn’t hate “love.” in fact, if you don’t “love,” it doesn’t even think you’re a person.