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Hello and welcome to my blog! The title is “Dead Dove,” but this is actually my NSFW blog. I post toxic ships, gore, and other darker content that I don’t feel comfortable putting on my SFW side blogs.

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BUT i think it’s completely fair and beneficial to analyze media that’s considered “problematic,” especially if it’s sending a message of “X problematic thing is actually okay.”

The thing is, there are a bunch of completely different situations that all get thrown under the label of “problematic media.”

Sometimes the audience just completely misses the point. Lolita is the obvious example. It’s written from the perspective of an abuser who insists Dolores wants his attention, but the book is full of signs that he’s an unreliable narrator. I think it’s a genuinely good piece of literature that’s very frequently misunderstood because media literacy is not exactly thriving rn

Other people hide behind “it’s fiction!” or “nothing should be censored!” to defend something that I think actually crosses an ethical line. For me, Cuties falls into that category. I’ve never watched it and never will because it uses real child actors. Once the “problematic” part stops being fictional and starts involving real people, my opinion changes completely.

Then there are stories that use taboo topics mostly because they’re edgy or dramatic, without really caring about what they’re depicting. I’m thinking 13 Reasons Why or 50 Shades of Grey. They often feel more interested in the spectacle than in saying anything meaningful.

With shows like Riverdale or Euphoria, I don’t think they’re inherently immoral or shouldn’t exist. They just make me really uncomfortable because they spend so much time depicting teenagers having sex. Personally, I’ve always gotten the impression that part of their appeal is letting adults watch teens have sex.