Oh for the love of god can people let go of Killing Stalking already.
Yes, it depicts an abusive relationship. It’s abusive. It’s bad. Stalking, hurting and murdering people is bad. Nobody is disagreeing with this. Literally nobody. It’s supposed to be bad. Even if the characters have some sort of twisted romantic feelings going on, it is not a romance and it has never pretended to be.
Yes, it’s labeled BL. No, even though BL is short for Boys Love, it doesn’t stand for “happy gay romantic relationships”. It literally just means gay content. If a comic has two dudes kissing or having sex, it’s BL, regardless of if they love each other or if they’re victim and abuser. Yaoi is Japanese term, coined by fans. It has the same meaning. I know it’s confusing.
Yes, fiction affects reality.
No, fiction won’t force you to commit any crimes you weren’t already okay with doing. The vast majority of human population know the difference between fiction and reality - if they didn’t, fiction wouldn’t be a thing. At all.
Comparing KS to Twilight or whatever is completely pointless because one is a niched, R rated webcomic that, while popular, has a couple of thousand readers at most– and the other is a mainstream Hollywood production (ie seen by millions upon millions of people allover the world) that features a very questionable relationship but is marketed as the Ultimate Love Story, and aimed at young girls in their teens (so, not 18+).
It’s not the same, not even slightly. (Same goes for comparisons with 50SOG, Jaws, Fight Club, Matrix– seriously, do you really not see the difference between these huge blockbuster movies and a Korean webcomic?)
Yes, there are straight girls who fetishize gay men. Yes, it’s gross.
No, they should not project their ships onto real life people. But no, they’re not a majority. They exist in literally every fucking fandom and they’re usually aged between 13 and 15. It’s awful, but it’s a phase they grow out of. We should help them out of that phase rather than bullying them and telling them to kill themselves– I can’t believe this has to be said. (And honestly, some of you are just attacking young women because you see them as easy targets, because you get a reaction, because they might step back out of fear– unlike big corporations or movie studios who are actually normalizing problematic behavior.)
Also, jesus christ stop assuming that everyone who doesn’t share your worldview is a “gross cishet girl”. Not just because it reeks of misogyny, but because fandom clearly has a shitton of LGBTQ+ people, and a lot of them do enjoy content you deem unacceptable.
Stop erasing their identities and their very real presence just because it’s easier to hate “the straights” than accept that there are people within the community that don’t see your pov. Stop treating them like traitors and just realize that people are different.
Yes, some people ship to cope. Some people create to cope. No, they don’t need to “do it in private”, they should be allowed to do it however they please as long as it’s tagged appropriately. A lot of people read to cope, a lot of people can’t create for themselves, a lot of people feel alone and isolated and broken- don’t try to take that away from them while simultaneously saying you’re fighting for the victims.
And yes, even if it’s not to cope, people can ship whatever fucking fictional pairing they want. It’s fandom. It’s fiction. You’re not their therapist, you are not their parent, you are most likely not even their friend. Nobody owes you an essay on why they ship it, nobody has to tell their life story in order to be allowed to draw cartoon characters kissing or getting it on. Using fictional characters for sexual gratification is NOT automatically fetishizing an entire group of people; the purpose of fictional characters is to be consumed by its fans, in whatever way they see fit. Because they’re not real.
If people try to make their shipping about you, specifically, that’s horrible and you’re entitled to your anger. But any gay character in a comic isn’t you.
It has nothing to do with you.
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