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We have had decades upon centuries of proof that fiction doesn't impact reality the way you antis think it does. But here you are, denying the actual historical evidence because it's inconvenient for you. How sad.

Source?

Meanwhile, you can see media affecting reality through the most basic things by themselves: commercials, propaganda, and media representation. Moral lessons in cartoons, even, are smaller ways that media affects people's perceptions and ideals, causing ripple effects into the real-world.

Commercials are designed to make people desire a certain product over other products, for example.

Propaganda manipulates perceptions to garner support for a cause. There's plenty of examples including the infamous 'Donald Duck nazi cartoon'.

Media representation shapes people's views on minority groups. This is why minority representation matters.

There's also the fact that movies/tv shows have resulted in larger consequences: People used to underestimate and dismiss sharks before the Jaws movie, but the film completely shifted their perception. Now sharks are feared and were also hunted to endangerment, to the point the original author regrets making Jaws in the first place. Fifty Shades of Gray caused a sudden spike in hospitalization over bedroom-related injuries and effecting perception on fetishes.

Let me make this clear: I'm not saying you can't have abusive/unhealthy relationships in your media. I'm saying that it shouldn't be glorified/romanticized. I'm also not saying I want people to hold the audience's hand and talk down to them about right or wrong (Since I know that's a big strawman a lot of proshippers use)

I'm saying that if you have p*dophilia, abuse, or i*cest in your story, don't make it out to be a good or a healthy relationship.

The MAP situation exposed support for those real-world terrible individuals. Why feed into that with content geared toward that audience?

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Woman: An adult who identifies with the female gender.

I wonder what they define the 'female gender' as being. Stereotypes, probably.

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Every time a proshipper/comshipper is trying to deny the fact of media effecting reality they end up saying something like: 'Oh, but people aren't just gonna suddenly be okay with pedophilia!' and every time I see them try to use that as a shield for their behavior/content, I immediately remember that there WAS a point in the very recent past when twitter had the 'map situation'.

The 'map situation' being when people were supporting pedophilia, supporting that pedophilia be 'accepted' and 'added to LGBT', and supporting 'pro-contact maps' being in contact with children while spreading misinformation about consent, how capable children are of giving it, and brain development. They even made a 'pride flag' and other propaganda (Media which is literally made to affect how you think.) to push that idea.

I'm honestly surprised more people aren't remembering that.

That shit got an entire cartoon cancelled and caused great harm to the lgbtq community, how did people just forget that happened?

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You know what I've noticed? People seem really defensive about buying/playing Hogwarts legacy.

Like, they'll plan on buying the game, and any time someone says something to them about it, they'll get offended and start becoming hostile.

For example: A friend of mine(/nbh) mentioned they didn't want people to interact with them if the person bought the game. The guy claimed they were supportive of trans and Jewish people, but when this friend of mine said they weren't comfortable interacting with people who were buying the game regardless, they immediately started saying that my friend was bullying and targeting them.

Honestly, it seems to me that they're trying to convince themselves of it, more than anything else. Considering all that was said was not to interact, which shouldn't affect them at all other than just... not talking to them? What a disproportionate and knee-jerk reaction to give to something as simple as a DNI mention.

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If there is ever a point where you have to say: '-But they're not biologically related', or 'But they're technically not related', etc, that's an instant red flag. CEASE.

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Why have people stopped caring about the media they consume?

I mean, between 'Demon Slayer' having piss-poor writing, the 'Loki series' romanticizing in*est and abuse/victim-blaming, and the multitude of 'romance movies' that also romanticize abuse/victim blame? (Fifty Shades, Twilight - which also romanticizes grooming, Kissing Booth, etc.)

I'm just starting to notice a very concerning pattern with current media.

I can't be the only one seeing it, right? It feels like we're on a steady decline in quality but an incline in popularity towards things that are extremely 'problematic'(For lack of a better word) and poor quality?

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Hot take: Demon Slayer is wildly overrated and isn't as good as people say it is. In fact, I don't think it's very good at all.

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I feel like people seem to forget that therapists and psychiatrists are just as capable of error as people not in those fields.

Bias can affect therapists and psychiatrists, they can be incorrect, and they can overlook things by mistake. Nobody is perfect, not even them.

There are also such things as malicious people who are therapists and psychiatrists. People who can and will try to shove their personal opinions without concern for what you really need.

Yes, there are obviously people who aren't like that, but everyone is capable of error. I think that's important for people to understand.

It's just weird to me when people put therapists and psychiatrists on a pedestal and blindly accept anything they have to say.

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Deus ex Machina & Plot armor

I find it really funny how sometimes, critics and other people will get on writer's asses for 'deus ex machina' or 'plot armor', saying those things aren't 'realistic'...

...When stuff like that happens in real life?

Like that time, in the Civil war, when soldiers, who should've died from their wounds, spontaneously had blue glowing stuff in their wounds that basically resulted in those people with it having a higher chance of recovery, and nobody knew what the hell it was until around 2001.

That is the most Deus ex machina thing that you could ever come up with. It was called the 'Angel glow' phenomenon.

Or that time when two maneless male lions started attacking a group of people who were building a railroad, and after one of the lions was caught: They started shooting at it with multiple guns, and none of the bullets connected. ...But that's not all!

Not only did none of the bullets connect, but one of the bullets BROKE THE CAGE AND SET THE THING FREE.

...That happened. 'The man-eaters of Tsavo'.

And I'm not saying that you should just ignore when stories do that because it happens irl, or that people should pretend consequences don't exist for a character's actions when writing... but I am saying that people should be slightly more forgiving about the idea of plot armor and Deus ex Machina. Especially now, because for some reason, people seem to immediately jump on anything even slightly hinting at these tropes, nowadays.

Half of most stories wouldn't exist without these tropes... slow your roll and relax.

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Why are people celebrating the Queen’s death?

  I mean, maybe I’m just a party pooper or don’t understand something, but I find it really strange and very disrespectful that people are doing this.

   I was raised to respect the dead, especially if they were recently deceased, and while people like Hitler may be slightly except,(strictly on the grounds of how awful they were and all the hurt they caused.), I don’t remember Queen Elizebeth ever doing anything to warrant so much disrespect?

   Could someone enlighten me on this? I’m confused.

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   I don’t know if it’s just me, but people getting awards for taking care of their disabled children seems vaguely insulting/ableist.

   Forgive me if I’m wrong: But parents taking care of their children and fulfilling their needs kind of seems like the bare minimum regardless of whether they’re disabled or not?

   Just a thought.

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   I just watched a review of a book that said something that made me lose brain cells. (Warning: Possibly triggering topics ahead! Check the tags for your trigger tags before reading under the cut!)

   I’m not gonna mention the book, nor the guy himself, because I don’t want anyone harassing each other. I’m just gonna dump my thoughts here and then hide away in my cave until I feel the need to dump another opinion here.

   For context, the guy is talking about a scene where a woman is forced to have sex with someone multiple times, or else she’ll be flung from her standing in a barbaric society filled with violence and slavery. (Not literally, I mean she’ll lose her social status/standing.)

   This man bold-facedly decided to say: “If she says ‘yes’ to it, then that’s consent, she doesn’t get to cry about it, so why is this character crying?”

   Meanwhile, in this same story it’s mentioned multiple times that people under her social status are killed without a second thought if they step out of line, and are, need I mention again, slaves who are mentioned to be abused and tormented constantly with ‘their only escape being death’.    So, clearly, it’s not just ‘losing her job’, it’s getting booted into constant abuse, tyrannical rule, torment, and violent death. This isn’t losing your cushy job, its getting (Literally in this case) thrown into a death pit for gladiatorial combat at worst, and becoming an expendable slave at best.

   I- I don’t- How is this person the same species as me??? This guy genuinely scares me if he really thinks this way. 

   Just from that alone, this guy sounds like the type to hear about a teacher coming onto a student, and gets really offended until he hears the teacher was a woman and the student a boy, then makes a ‘Lucky guy’ joke.

   God, that was nasty. I need a shower after watching that, holy shit.