#but also on another level it’s like 💀 omfg grow upppp

[foursaints]

genuinely one of my least favorite things ever is when people moral panic over sexual abuse and incest and csa in fiction and/or act like it’s somehow inherently worse than all other types of traumatic experience, i.e. “x character is my favorite war criminal but reading or writing about pedophilic abuse is TOO FAR”. especially when it’s about, like, being fine with all other content warnings but being unwilling to read lolita or death in venice or w/e. this mentality is wrong for a lot of reasons but the most personally vexing is how clearly you can tell that pedophilic abuse is just not a material reality for these people! its something which only happens in fiction and news stories, and its too shocking to even hear about, etc. like. not only is this profoundly naive (and glaringly privileged) but it alienates survivors!

god knows its already difficult enough to get over something that happened to you but imagine when it’s treated like the Singularly Bad Thing so ontologically horrific & traumatic that it can’t even be READ about. especially when you already feel uniquely damaged and broken <- this rhetoric is so hurtful! i don’t think people realize this is the exact message they’re sending with that sentiment. 💀 i’m so sorry you can’t even hear about rape without feeling uncomfortable but did you consider that thousands of women and children face that reality every day. and survive. and deserve to be able to read & write about their experiences freely.