Cw mention of CSA
Antis will claim that they are “protecting children” but then call people who harm fictional children pedophiles. But as a victim of CSA myself, I find it super offensive and harmful when these antis throw around the word pedo to anyone and anything that mildly makes their fragile little brain uncomfortable.
No. People who fantasize fictional children are NOT pedophiles because for someone to be that, they have to have harmed real children. A real child that I used to be when I was assaulted.
So by calling everyone who harms fictional children a pedophile, you’re dismissing my trauma and experience by reducing it to ***fictional kids being harmed*** and you’re actually helping real pedophiles who harm real children like me get away with it easier because now people have associated the word with “dark fiction” instead of real life harm, thanks to you.
So it’s antis who ARE harming real children because they want to protect fictional ones. Fuck off.
I was a CSA victim, and I say “let dark ship enjoyers write whatever they want”. They’re not harming real kids like you do.
Not to mention, a lot of victims like me use dark fiction to help us cope with our trauma. So not only are antis helping actual pedophiles get away with harming real children easier, they’re also calling CSA victims pedophiles because we write about fictional things that make them uncomfortable (even though we never force anybody to read our shit).
I don’t want to see these people claim to be good people ever again.
It's also harmful to children on another level because using pedophile as an insult and conflating it with the word predator is essentially telling individuals with pedophilic disorder that they are already a predator and that their thoughts are just as bad as offending which if you have OCD you'll know is a very dangerous and unhealthy way of thinking.
All of this causes people with pedophilic disorder to isolate themselves and only communicate with other people struggling in the same way which often results in the disorder worsening and increases the likelihood of an individual offending. just like any other mentally ill person people with pedophilic disorder need to be able to express themselves and work through their emotions If we expect them to get better and and lots of people like to express themselves through writing and art. it's a safe way to break down and explore your emotions.
not to mention the fact that you don't actually have to be a pedophile psychologically speaking to sexually assaulted a child. sometimes an individual sexually assaults someone not out of any sexual desire but as a way to purposely cause harm or to assert control. This is why I feel that the distinction between pedophile and predator is so important.
