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fandomsecrets2015-02-17 06:58 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2015-02-17 06:58 pm
[ SECRET POST #2967 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2967 ⌋
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Re: OP here!
(Anonymous) 2015-02-18 04:29 am (UTC)(link)Christ, I am so sick of coming across this strawman.
Look, I'm in an ongoing discussion with someone on another site right now who believes there is no rape and no abuse in this story. She thinks Ana is completely okay with everything that happens and fully consents all the way through. So, yes, there are some women who are reading this and thinking it's normal and healthy and there's nothing problematic about it all, and that's a fucking problem. It's not a problem because they're women. It's not a problem because they find it hot. It's a problem because we live in a society that says "that thing that looks like abuse isn't really abuse and that thing that looks like rape isn't really rape," and there are a lot of people who believe that and live that, and given that that's their reality, it doesn't actually make sense to say "oh, well, fiction and reality are totally separate." It's also a problem because the author of the books doesn't think she wrote rape and doesn't even think she wrote erotica.
People who read it, acknowledge that it would be really unhealthy in real life, but still enjoy it and find it hot? Great! I don't have any concerns about that. But you better believe I have concerns about the author's perspective, the way the book is marketed, and the fact that there are people who are taking the content in the completely wrong way. And I don't see why some people want so badly to shut those concerns down and treat them like they aren't legitimate.
Re: OP here!
it's not a bad thing to say hey, some people will read this and get bad ideas from it. some men have too. it's a human thing and a culture thing and I really don't get why people are making this (this being, pointing out that this series has issues) out to be some kind of women-hating unfeminist thing