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"violent games don't romanticize the subject matter!"

my sibling in christ i think you have the wrong idea of what "romanticizing" means

it means to portray something in a more idealized, exciting or sentimental manner. basically what all fiction does, ESPECIALLY VIOLENT GAMES. your actions are portrayed as cool, heroic, powerful, skillful. you're rewarded for doing fictional harm. those types of game do indeed idealize war or general conflict.

i don't hear a peep of complaint about war games "romanticizing something traumatizing" (WHICH IT LITERALLY IS. VETERANS SUFFER FROM SEVERE PTSD BRO). but they do indeed do that, actually. it's escapism.

romanticization is not just about writing a relationship that would be bad irl as cute or wholesome. romanticization is a key characteristic of most fiction. it's hard to find any piece of fiction that doesn't romanticize something. whether it be a slice of life book, a war game, or an incest fanfic. romanticization is not the 'this is bad' word you think it is.

we already know that there's no causal link between violent video games and real-world violence. and yet.. they romanticize violence.

fictional content that deals with more taboo subject matter isn't any different. it won't change your moral compass any more than a war game. most people can separate an enemy killed in a war game from a real casualty of war. this isn't to say you have to be okay with all fiction personally. you can just. not enjoy a piece of fiction.

saying this as nicely as possible, some people need to grow up.

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found this three year old draft buried in my files. is it funny? I don't remember

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Nothing slapped my shit back into place like someone pointing out that the "genius gifted child with so much potential who got burnout and mental illness" is just the nerd equivalent to the jock "could have been a pro at sportsball if it wasn't for the injury".

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The only true problematic kink is the society wide force thin fetish

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The town inside me or smth idk

Say hi to Bay

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On the subject about parents needing to control their child's reading and invade their privacy in order to "protect" them from "inappropriate material:

Until I was in....college? At least? The vast, vast majority of the books I read were either a) assigned by my school or b) (the vast majority of my reading) provided to me by my mother.

My mom is a librarian. She filled our rooms with books, picked especially for us. She pointed out books on the shelves in our home library (separate from our bedroom shelves) that she thought we would like. She bought us books for birthdays, Christmas, and just stacks of recommendations. She once paid me $10 to read one of the Cirque Du Freak books because she said I needed "to be exposed to bad literature."

She respected my privacy in room, didn't go through my belongings. She explicitly pointed out to us that she wouldn't know if we took a particular book of the shelf, as long as we returned it, if we didn't want her to know we were reading it. She purposely brought us books that she didn't care for herself, because she thought we might find them valuable or enjoyable.

And if we wanted to read something she thought might upset or disturb us, she would explain why. She wouldn't stop us from reading it - just ask us to check in with her, to talk through it.

And so when I read something that upset or disturbed me, I would go to her. She would listen and talk through it with me.

If she said she didn't think I would like something, or that a book might disturb me, or that she thought I should wait until I was older, I listened to her.

She didn't need restrictions or control to protect me. Because she proved I could trust her.

Controlling kids is never about "protecting" them. It's just about control.

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yall i swear to god if a bitch says her pronouns are she/her then her pronouns are she/her

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