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vensosaurus

joy-crimes

this “stephen king” guy is out here writing scary books that frighten people and we’re just letting him????????

and who made him king of the stephens anyways????

therealstephenking

the stephen council, after I overthrew the stephen senate

tboy-cock

was talking to my gf about my fear of dying young for being trans and my mom putting my deadname on my gravestone, and she said "i hope that never happens, but if it does, i will carve your name into your grave myself if i have to." and i think theres something extremely raw about that sentiment and trans community in general. you can kill only our bodies, but you cant kill transsexuality

flowerbleedme

From The Sandman

depsidase

zoobus

Like idk, I just think it's important to push back on these smaller concessions. I know some will look at me defending the right for cartoonists to sneak a sex joke into the background of their Nickelodeon show as suspect, as an eyebrow raising way to spend my free time, but that's exactly what those narratives bank on, on you being too worried about the optics of asking for evidence of harm.

"Controversial opinion apparently but I don't think you should put your fetishes in children's shows" let's ignore how implausible it would be to enforce such a thing, as if what people find funny and what people can find horny are wholly distinct - why? What material harms come to a child who unwittingly encounters inflation in the context of an entirely sfw cartoon? Bare feet tickling? Burping? Someone tied to a chair? Who is harmed by this and how? Be specific.

And if you're like well, it just makes me uncomfortable - so what? Without a component of measurable or at least identifiable damage, why should your discomfort dictate what other people can and cannot create? Why does your comfort trump anothers? Why should the discomfort of an imagined threat hold clout?

Like there's zero benefit in conceding to illusions of child endangerment. All it does is reinforce the idea that outside forces are desperately (yet inscrutibly) trying to groom your kids, that one can never be safe.