This post makes a great contrast with that other fancops post about how we should ‘just not call ourselves proship or be obvious about it and people wouldn’t care.’
You cannot increase the agency of one group (children) by diminishing the agency of another group (adults).
Censorship does not make children safer, because there is no safe authority to decide what is censored.
Censorship takes away the tools of children to escape from abuse and indoctrination.
Fun fact; I was able to figure out I was being abused partly from fiction that portrayed abuse.
Wow, it’s almost like seeing an abusive situation from the outside makes you realize how fucked up your own situation is, even when your abuser is good at making you think it’s all for your own good.
Erasing dark fiction is the same as silencing victims, ensuring further victims can’t figure out they’re being abused, which is exactly what an abuser would want. Shut down conversations about abuse, and it’s easier for real abuse to fly under the radar.
Sounds like you’re the one telling vulnerable people to shut up, anti.
Oh yeah, I just wanted to say that a child dating a person much older than them āonce they turn 18ā is grooming.
This isnāt me misusing terms, thatās literally one way grooming happens
You have never wondered into the Sofia the First fandom have you?
Either way, adults with children isnāt good. Thereās no way to ship an uncomfortably large age gap. Even if it āhappens in real lifeā, that isnāt good.
Bestie, Sophia is a cartoon character. You are comparing real life grooming to cartoons.
An older person dating someone once they turn 18 is only grooming if they were hovering over the younger person and using coercive tactics on them to make them think their relationship is good no matter what. Otherwise, it’s just dating with an age gap. It depends on the actual gap between ages of course, and age gaps are a bigger deal the younger you are, but I’ve seen antis claim that an 18-year-old with a 24-year-old is automatically abuse when it isn’t. That’s infantilizing to 18-year-olds. An 18-year-old is not a child, so maybe don’t treat them like one, and for the love of god, don’t act like abuse is nothing more than an age gap when it is so much more than that.
What you are doing here is equating fictional age gap ships with real actual grooming of minors, and that’s fucking gross. Think before you post next time.
Sadly, most antis aren’t really looking to protect anyone.
They’re looking for an ‘acceptable target’ to bully and harass that they don’t ave to feel bad about being mean too. And they’ve been told by society that accusing someone of being a pedophile always makes them an acceptable target.
I wish antis cared half as much about actual grooming and predators as they claim they do.
