I am against harassment and I think that harassment is wrong.
I don't agree that this has to be a simplistic black-and-white debate. The idea that "the people who want to censor fandom" quote-unquote can be grouped into one category, and that all of them agree with each other, that anyone who disagrees with YKINMK agrees with people who are against all homosexuality in fic, I don't agree with this, it's clearly absurd. Just grouping all this together is completely groundless. Insisting that this is inexorably going to lead to throwing the baby out with the bathwater - it's just a slippery slope argument, with no more validity than any other slippery slope argument.
We can have a more nuanced conversation about it if we want to. Clearly, it doesn't seem like we actually want to, but it's possible in theory. I think this is complicated and we should approach it like it's a complicated. I don't have any interest in telling anyone that their fantasies are impure. I think we can have conversations about how fiction generally, and fanfiction in particular, reflect our fantasies and our morals, and how fiction and fanfiction impact the world, without insisting on either one absolutist position or the other.
In conclusion, I would like to reiterate that I am not in favor of harassment.
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I don't agree that this has to be a simplistic black-and-white debate. The idea that "the people who want to censor fandom" quote-unquote can be grouped into one category, and that all of them agree with each other, that anyone who disagrees with YKINMK agrees with people who are against all homosexuality in fic, I don't agree with this, it's clearly absurd. Just grouping all this together is completely groundless. Insisting that this is inexorably going to lead to throwing the baby out with the bathwater - it's just a slippery slope argument, with no more validity than any other slippery slope argument.
We can have a more nuanced conversation about it if we want to. Clearly, it doesn't seem like we actually want to, but it's possible in theory. I think this is complicated and we should approach it like it's a complicated. I don't have any interest in telling anyone that their fantasies are impure. I think we can have conversations about how fiction generally, and fanfiction in particular, reflect our fantasies and our morals, and how fiction and fanfiction impact the world, without insisting on either one absolutist position or the other.
In conclusion, I would like to reiterate that I am not in favor of harassment.