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people won't like me saying this but we actually do need to normalize talking about and depicting rape and we need to normalize talking about it like we would any other violence. we need to stop treating it like this taboo word that needs to be censored, this secret subject that can't be alluded to in media. we need to be able to talk about rape and incest the way we talk about murder, or hell, the way people talk about cannibalism on this site.

It's already normalized and people don't take it seriously are you people delusional or do you just never see any sort of normal media.

What society are you living in where people can discuss rape without the taboo and stigma surrounding it overshadowing the conversation. Because I'm living in the society where people dumb the word down to "grape" to avoid censorship, where any implication of it in media that isn't shoved in your face is totally dismissed and anything less subtle is called gratuitous and also not examined. where people say murder is "better" than rape. where rape and sexual assault are treated as this special sort of violence that's almost mythologized, a culture of denial where anything to do with sexual violence is both sensationalized and swept under the rug.

“they never explicitly looked at the camera and said ‘i am experiencing immense grief’ so how was i supposed to know??” i don’t know what to tell you, man. if a story doesn’t spoon-feed you the character's internal emotional state like a jar of mashed peas, you guys just willingly starve. subtext is not a myth, i promise it won't bite you.

even when they say it people act like it was never said. there is an entire episode of steven universe future that literally says "steven, you have ptsd" and yet to this day there are people acting like he's a whole different character in the spinoff series

The thing is that sex scenes actually are incredible ways to explore character. People are at their most vulnerable during sex! The way they have sex says a lot of very interesting things about their desires, obviously, but also their psychology, their vulnerabilities, their hopes and fears, etc. It is completely insane to me to think that sex scenes have no value other than to sexually excite the audience. And even if their only value is to sexual excite the audience - SO WHAT?? A movie is supposed to excite and entertain you! Grow up!!!

the thing about Tangled is that this is a story geared towards little girls (even if it's "fun for the whole family," it's a disney princess movie, it's geared towards little girls), and it says, "here is a girl who is naive and doesn't know anything about the 'Real World' or how to navigate it safely and correctly. now pay close attention: the good guys are the ones who help her grow and explore new things while still respecting her own perspective and feelings, not making her feel stupid. the bad guys are the ones who tell her that she is too weak/immature/naive to do the things she wants to do, because she is fragile and needs protecting." and I watched this when I was nine years old and it resonated deep in a part of me that I couldn't articulate with words yet.

like, I was nine years old. other notable memories from being nine years old include adults making jokes about how easily squished fairies could be when I tried to explain my love of tiny fairies living tiny lives, and adults talking over my head about how I was "still so innocent" when I asked a question about what something was. a movie saying "hey even if you're naive and innocent you're still important and you have ideas that are worth something and people who treat you otherwise are holding you back" was such an important thing. idk

I don't know how to say this to tumblr puritans who act as useful idiots to fascists and terfs, but if someone has actually done real tangible harm to another real person, whatever kinks they might have could not be less relevant.

Whenever an anti becomes profic, an angel gains its wings.

a piece of art being "revealed to be" fetish art doesn't diminish it btw

Why would the way a character does their normal life not be relevant to the plot or characterization??? Hello?????

How is it that you can a music library of like 1,200+ absolute bangers but as soon as you put it on shuffle in a group setting it's like. anime opening you added in 2010. homestuck parody song. musical artist who was cancelled last year for kidnapping and eating children in his basement. Hamilton

I can't believe some people are actually reblogging this like "Tch. Omg, so embarrassing OP, I can't believe you would ever admit to liking Hamilton 😏 " like ok, first of all congratulations for hatching as a fully formed adult in 2022 from the pure white egg of a virgin swan i guess. Raised in a cave on a diet consisting solely of nuts and berries and leftist twitter clapbacks. "ooooooh, I've never had a complicated relationship with a piece of art that was phenomenally well-received at the time but aged like milk as later reflection revealed the fundamental flaws in its premise that were in fact present from its inception but which I didn't notice because I was 17 and hadn't heard of neoliberalism yet" Should we throw a party? Should we invite Anthony Fantano? Anyway second of all. you draw the line at Lin Manuel Miranda but you're fine with basement guy?