Something I've noticed in reading over all of the comments related to this secret is that a Main Problem seems to be that no one critiqued the requesters, or the fic-writers; that the people reading the kink meme passed over the requests if they were uninterested (or disgusted/insert your appropriate adjective here) and did not react negatively to them, in any way, and so all that exists are people endorsing the requests of praising the fic.
I'd like to ask a question:
When was the last time you saw a purely negative comment to any fic, solely regarding the subject matter? Most communities require warnings so that people won't stumble upon a fic about underage incestuous rape; no one replies to that fic with, "You disgust me," or, "How dare you?" -- and if they were to, they would be quickly lambasted by others.
So while I can see the point of the OP, that they feel major historical events are being trivialized for the sake of someone getting off (which, I would argue in most cases, were not the point of the fics written -- and I say this as someone who fulfilled a request that could be possibly viewed as such; but who intended it to be horrible and gutwrenching and in no way hot); it seems the critique here truly lies in the fact that no one spoke out against it negatively; or perhaps that it didn't even occur to someone to react to it negatively. I know that if I saw/see a fic that I disagree with on a moral level, I overlook it -- I don't give it the time of day.
So really, OP, you should be railing against Fandom as a whole, and how fandom culture stomps down upon people calling others out for having different morals than they themselves do. And if you do choose to take up that crusade, good luck.
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I'd like to ask a question:
When was the last time you saw a purely negative comment to any fic, solely regarding the subject matter? Most communities require warnings so that people won't stumble upon a fic about underage incestuous rape; no one replies to that fic with, "You disgust me," or, "How dare you?" -- and if they were to, they would be quickly lambasted by others.
So while I can see the point of the OP, that they feel major historical events are being trivialized for the sake of someone getting off (which, I would argue in most cases, were not the point of the fics written -- and I say this as someone who fulfilled a request that could be possibly viewed as such; but who intended it to be horrible and gutwrenching and in no way hot); it seems the critique here truly lies in the fact that no one spoke out against it negatively; or perhaps that it didn't even occur to someone to react to it negatively. I know that if I saw/see a fic that I disagree with on a moral level, I overlook it -- I don't give it the time of day.
So really, OP, you should be railing against Fandom as a whole, and how fandom culture stomps down upon people calling others out for having different morals than they themselves do. And if you do choose to take up that crusade, good luck.