Sorry, there's something I actually want to clarify/expand on. I may have worded this poorly so I want to clarify:
Pedophilia itself is not counter culture. It's already part of rape culture, which IS the culture. When I refereed to it as such here, I meant under very specific conditions where people are using the concept to be edgy/shocking to the people who clutch their pearls at the notion.
Please make no mistake, this contradiction is the point. Most of the ultra religious American Christian "Puritans" who are, on paper, very anti-pedophile (When creating a characterized villain out of the notion of The Pedophile who lurks in the shadows and prays on children, often based on transphobic, specifically transmisogynistic, stereotypes) are actually very pro-pedophilia and rape culture, because both this and an idealized childhood "purity" are used as tools for the patriarchy and fascism. (And of course this notion of childhood purity has pedophilic connotations as well) and this works together with the regressive ideas presented above.
We live in a patriarchal world where youth is treated as the ideal of desirability, where adults are socially permitted to feel entitled to children's bodies, where children can be adultified as an excuse to avoid responsibility in sexualizing them, where "choice" feminism gets applied without serious age-and-power analysis, where girls in particular are trapped in a double bind, where they're either whores or madonnas, where women are seen as unfuckable and worthless once they stop looking "barely legal," where status and authority protect abusers and pedophiles, where families use privacy as a tool for isolation and incestuous abuse, where children are treated more as property of their parents than as people with rights, where youth is commodified as an eroticized aesthetic to consume, where sex education gaps leave young people without language and tools to recognize or report ongoing harm, where coming forward about abuse is punished through social shaming and accusations of defamation, where "purity politics" (sexual purity, national purity, traditional family purity) overlap with these dynamics by casting women and children's bodies are something to display and regulate as symbols of purity, where the law enforces patriarchal hierarchy and obedience through surveillance and brutality, where children are abused at every level of society from the household to Hollywood to the church to a private island, where a children book's author can dedicate her life to creating laws to harm trans women by painting them as predators while at the same time being in cahoots with powerful pedophiles, where domination is seen as strength, where this is rewarded and protected by powerful men, where even men without power are taught to emulate these dynamics in their day-to-day life because that's how masculinity and power has been taught to them, where men and boys are raped in order to emasculate them, where people- men, women, and children, in wartorn countries are being tortured and raped for the sake of humiliation and degradation, where the "leader of the free world" gets to be an unabashed rapist pedophile with no consequences, where rape is about power, where rape is the tool of fascism.
And that's why it's frustrating when you log into Tumblr and people are like "actually pedophilia and rape and incest are Progressive (which makes it Pure) because uhhh I write fanfiction and censorship is bad and uhhh... it's bad to be mean to me so this is social murder and ummm... This is kinkshaming so you're a puritan basically. And also it's transphobic because trans people are pedos right? No that doesn't reflect any transphobic propaganda, and I'm not just using you as a scapegoat!"
Rape culture is not counterculture. It feels rebellious because it's edgy but that's where it ends. No matter how hard you try to dress it up it as something progressive, it's just not.
We should be able to talk about how these are things that heavily permeate our society, and the way that they will leak into the way that we deal with such subjects in fiction and fantasy as well. If you're an adult you should be able to understand this much without getting defensive.
Stop shutting down these conversations just because it makes you feel bad about your fetish. You can do that on your own time. The rape culture continuum shouldn't be perpetuated just because you have a guilt complex. It's an issue not because of the fictional scenarios you enjoy, but because of your insistence that it can never mean anything, and actively, loudly advocating for any further discussion to be shut down. You are a willing cog in the machine.
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