CW long vent, anti logic, CSA and incest, dark shipping, sui baiting, murder
OH COME THE FUCK ON DUDE, YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!! You can't just one minute go "Wow your reading on Utena fucking sucks, that's not what the show is about" and then go around, telling people to kill themselves for shipping Zim and Dib romantically together usdyfsityf (That's what ZADR stands for, also???? JARED LETO JOKER??? REALLY!??!?!??)If you want people to regain back their media literacy, you're gonna have to learn where these kinds of knee jerk responses come from in the first place. All this moral grandstanding in tumblr fandom culture abuses social justice like this. You're doing the exact same thing by reading any kind of fictional depiction of abuse as glorifying real life abuse.
Just because ZADR isn't canon and Jhonen Vasquez hates that ship himself, doesn't mean you can't separate fandom ships like this from media literacy either. I'm pretty sure any sane ZADR fan knows that there's a huge difference between liking a dark ship vs supporting real life toxic relationships. If a ZADR fan makes a cringy AMV to the Horror of our Love by Ludo, it isn't an invitation to allow destructive relationships to formulate IRL!! Just like Jhonen Vasquez was not inviting that one guy to cut open an old lady just because he liked the Dark Harvest episode on Invader Zim.
"It's okay to like stories with abuse in them, just so long as it isn't glorifying it!!" But see, that's the thing. Being so reactionary towards the media people create and consume is gonna create this problem, regardless how they're depicting the abuse. The obsession with puritizing media is going to destroy people's media literacy. That distinction of interpreting the art is going to disappear because you want all fiction to reflect real life. FICTION ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE REAL.
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"It isn't a healthy coping mechanism to like fictional abuse, that's just self harm and you're retraumatizing others stfu!!!" but imagine if that same anti you're criticizing in your tumblr post told you that you can't like Utena anymore because it has incestuous abuse PERIOD. I have no idea who this Utena anti is, the only person that comes to mind is a certain youtuber who ironically enough, raped her actual sister when they were children. Imagine if she told you that you can't use Utena as a coping mechanism anymore to process your trauma under ANY CIRCUMSTANCE.
For the love of god, can people PLEASE stop throwing other victims of abuse under the bus????? PLEASE?!?!?!?
STOP ENDORSING FANDOM CENSORSHIP JFC
