are you really dying on the defending futanari porn hill
I am because we are dealing with enemies who are trying to police queerness by appealing to those who are uncomfortable with certain kinks and fetishes.
Despite what we pretend here on Tumblr, everything is connected. No discourse exists in a vacuum. If you accept the premise that you should be able to police people's kinks and fetishes because they make you uncomfortable, why stop there?
There are some transgender and intersex people who are uncomfortable with futa fetishes. Fine.
But there are a lot of fetishes that make people uncomfortable.
What if Christians are uncomfortable with people who have priest or nun kinks? Should they be able to police those because they are fetishizing Christianity?
Let me ask you, have you been paying attention to how TERFs are recruiting? Have you been listening to their rhetoric about transgender people?
A big part of their narrative is claiming that transgender people are deviants who are dressing up as a way of acting out their sexual fetish. Their narrative is that being a transgender woman is morally wrong because it's fetishizing being a woman.
Using this as a recruiting tool, there are two basic things that the TERF needs to convince their targets.
1. They need to convince their target that trans women aren't real and they are just men who enjoy dressing up as women as part of their fetish.
2. They need people to take the step that this is a bad thing and that the fetish is wrong just because it makes them uncomfortable.
If you are in the queer community and you are arguing that certain fetishes are bad just because they make you uncomfortable, and you are spreading that to allies... You have already conceded half the battle. You have already convinced people around you that it is completely valid to police other people's fetishes.
So now all the TERF has to do is reframe queerness as a fetish.
The absolute best inoculation against TERF rhetoric is twofold. It is having people who both know that being trans isn't a fetish... But even if TERFs try to convince them otherwise, they wouldn't see that as a problem.
And can I add that a lot of queer representation today likely got its origin with writers who were consuming material from early 2000s fanfiction that helped normalize queerness in writing.
Steven Universe, the first cartoon with major characters having a queer wedding, and had a number of queer relationships through the series, was created by someone who started out making Ed Edd and Eddy smut.
And I think that Steven Universe helped pave the way for The Owl House later.
I genuinely don't think that queer representation would have gotten as far as it has if not for yaoi and yuri creators helping normalize it in fandoms.
And I completely understand people who have issues with being called a futa in real life. And if somebody says that to you, you have my permission to choke them.
But in general, I think that it is a good thing to respect people's fetishes and their kinks with a few truly harmful exceptions.
And I will gladly die on this hill because I believe it is the first line of defense against queerphobes who are trying to demonize queerness by framing it as just fetishes.
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