while on the topic of romanticisation/fetishisation of abuse and its depictions in art and the cultural landscape at large, i do think it's worth mentioning that victimhood being often used as this measure of validity by way of experience - essentially "you must be This traumatised to ride" - and the resulting push for tighter restrictions on who is allowed to create and interact with these depictions of abusive behaviour ultimately only serves to deny victims the language with which to articulate their experiences and hand more power to those who inflict the abuse. you are never not going to get art that explores abuse that doesn’t resonate with you; that makes you feel uncomfortable and perhaps even offended, unless you eliminate it entirely, and it is arrogance to believe that you will always be able to tell the difference between art that uncritically "fetishises" abuse and that which depicts a victim's lived experiences, as well as a potentially invasive demand for relitigation of the trauma someone endured in order to justify their work. that's why we have critical theory and discourse - to discuss the relative merits and failures of any work of art, and communicate our subjective experiences of it with one another. also, while it very much isn't praxis, i honestly could not give less of a fuck if someone's introduction to the language that enabled them to articulate their experiences, and/or understand and communicate with me about mine, was a result of their involvement in like. fucking voltron paladin shipping discourse or black butler yaoi.
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