[ID: a twitter thread.
Witch Hazel @ HazelMonforton:
"it's pretty easy to advocate for fictional characters when they literally do not exist and therefore cannot disagree with you or question your advocacy"
peony @ p_e_0_n_y responds:
"It's what I call the 'perfect victim complex'
People love the IDEA of helping victims, but they don't actually want to deal with real victims. Because a fake victim can be a tool for whatever idea or point of view you want to push, where a real person cannot.
A Schrodinger's Victim, who can hypothetically exist when needed to win arguments, but remains conveniently absent, silent, unobtrusive, and most importantly never counters the speaker's thoughts, opinions or ideas.
A real victim can counter your predetermined beliefs. A real victim could make you face their humanity and complexity, and disagree with your opinions about how to help them
A phantom victim cannot. A hypothetical victim cannot. They can be whatever you want them to be.
It's why people ramble on about helping 'starving kids in 3rd world countries', but won't do a damn thing for the poor kids in the neighborhood.
It's why people want to ban sex work to save sex workers but never listen to actual sex workers.
It's why a Columbine survivor's story was misattributed to a dead girl, because the dead girl can have a whole mythos and moral crusade made up about her and never counter it, like the living girl can.
It's why people would rather defend fictional characters and the hypothetical victims who maybe, potentially, *might* be hurt by fiction, and not actual victims of abuse and grooming who tell them they're {their} methodology and conclusions are wrong.
The folks angry that this is to 'justify pedophilic ships' while ignoring actual survivors who say not to equate fanfiction ship wars to their very real abuse are some {of} the exact type of clowns I'm talking about here.
Please exit through the gift shop." /id]
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