Mondo Trasho

"...i consume this sort of media to better cope with my trauma" ok so it affects the reality of your mental state

"...just because it turns me on, that doesn't mean i'd actually DO those things except for roleplay" ok so it affects the reality of your sexuality

"...i just find this stuff thought-provoking" ok so it affects the reality of your understanding of the world

"...we have our own community, and it's harmless!" ok so it affects the reality of your interactions with others

"...it helps me explore my identity" ok so it affects the reality of your self-awareness

"... but-" OK SO IT REFLECTS THE REALITY OF YOUR POSTING AND TALKING AND THINKING

Ao3 as the quiet, unassuming book nerd that's secretly freaky as fuck

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

*Not limited to mammals