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fandomsecrets2021-11-18 07:53 pm
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(Anonymous) 2021-11-19 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)And from the article on people losing children because of BDSM practices, there's a lot of interesting details: "A social worker backed up the ex-husband’s proofless allegations, even outlandish ones where he claimed their eldest son had been hung from the ceiling by his wrist, and removed the children."
So the issue wasn't that they were kinky, the issue was that multiple people claimed the children were physically abused. It may be that all those people were lying because they were prejudiced towards the couple for being in a BDSM relationship, but no one's argument was that they should lose their children because of the nature of their relationship.
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(Anonymous) 2021-11-19 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)In theory. Unless the sex work involves kinks and roleplay scenarios they don't like.
Personally, I think most fandom callout people are doing it for clout and to get rid of competition. They know they can probably whip up a mob into a frenzy pretty quickly because people are conditioned to believe that callouts are always important and should never be questioned.
For every callout that does have some actual merit, there are hundreds that are complete hot garbage juice.
People know this, which is why it's even more difficult than it used to be, because we don't know if "pedophile" means someone who's really a danger to kids, or someone who drew some anime teens making out.
And you're cherrypicking what you respond to. What about the teachers fired for being in anyway involved in consenting-adult erotica "for personal enjoyment." Yes. That is, in fact, what sex is for.
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(Anonymous) 2021-11-19 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)That would be very difficult to accuse an actress of, and very easy to defend, given how little choice porn actresses have of choosing what they want to perform.
> because we don't know if "pedophile" means someone who's really a danger to kids, or someone who drew some anime teens making out.
I do agree with that, that annoys me as well, though usually just drawing anime teens making out isn't enough to get someone cancelled. Most YA contains scenes of that. And while I personally don't necessarily mind seeing anime teens doing more than making out, I can see why so many teens in fandom feel uncomfortable interacting with adults who make those kind of fanworks.
> And you're cherrypicking what you respond to. What about the teachers fired for being in anyway involved in consenting-adult erotica "for personal enjoyment."
You mean this one? "So how did Eastman/Bright get busted? The details are unclear, but Gather reports that she wrote the novel on a school computer, which violates school policy of using resources for "social networking of a personal nature."
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(Anonymous) 2021-11-19 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)Yes, there's a lot of abuse and exploitation. But the argument that women in porn (all of them) can't help it, they don't have agency - that's another version of "well, I guess this icky thing is okay as long as they aren't doing it for pleasure."
Writing smut on a school computer is super stupid, I'll grant you that. Immoral, no. But stupid!
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(Anonymous) 2021-11-19 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)I think the problem you're having is that you spend so much time around teenagers that you're hypervigilant and obssessive about it, and forget that fandom as a whole does not revolve around teenagers, and that the kind of creepiness you talk about seeing is actually not all that common outside of teen zones. Because why would someone who wants to creep on teens hang out in a fandom that's mostly adults (which is most fandoms that aren't based on faddish teen media)? They won't find what they're looking for there.
So you're taking something that's a problem in one specific area of fandom, and projecting it all over people who make adult stuff for an adult audience. And yes, adult erotica creators are often very much at risk for negative consequences based on puritanism.
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(Anonymous) 2021-11-20 12:20 am (UTC)(link)Using different pseudonyms is good marketing. Having to hide or disavow "edgier" work altogether, well, I understand why people do it but I wish they didn't feel like they had to.