[ SECRET POST #3983 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3983 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

what they’re exposed to is, for the most part, creepy and invasive.

I would agree with you that the miniscule fraction of fans who attempt to push their non-gen fanfic/fanart on the actors are being invasive. However, it is, as I previously said, a miniscule fraction of the fans who do that. And when the actors respond negatively to those fans and that particular behavior, I have no problem with it whatsoever.

However, let's be clear here: it's not the fanfic - sexual or otherwise, kinky or otherwise - that's creepy. It's people pushing it on the actors. If you don't push your fanfic on the actors, then it's all fine.

You make the assertion that "No one is required to go out of their way to spare the feelings of the people who are sexually harassing them." That does seem - as the anon above me has already pointed out - to be a very serious misunderstanding of both fanfic and what constitutes sexual harrassment. Fanfic is not sexual harrassment. I'm a little baffled that I'm even having to state that.

The only way fanfic could remotely be construed as sexual harrassment is if a fan were to push sexualized fanfic onto an actor. And that's because pushing any kind of sexual content onto anyone is inappropriate behavior. In that scenario, the fact that it's fanfic they're being pressured to peruse has very little to do with the inappropriatness of it.

But in the vast majority of cases, it's either interviewers pushing fan content onto actors, or actors looking into it for themselves out of curiosity. In the case that an interviewer pushes explicit fanworks into an actor, the actor would be within their rights to take issue with the interviewer for doing so - but blaming the creator of the fanwork would be unjust. In cases where an actor chooses to look into the fanworks that are being crated based on their character, they are perfectly within their rights to like or not like what they find. But if it makes them uncomfortable, the person who created the fanwork does not bear responsibility for the actor's discomfort.