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Aaaaaaaaand I'm back

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mlp yuri sketches

[ciaran]

i think one thing that gets missed in discussions of like. “okay depiction of abuse/problematic dynamics” where the person is on the side of “it's fine to depict problematic things as long as the victim is clearly traumatized/not enjoying it” is that a part of the way in which abuse functions is by changing what intuitively feels good or bad to a person, that is to say, why people stay in abusive relationships is bc your brain can be wired, as a result of sustained trauma, to only feel comfortable or at-home in such situations, and to not recognise that anything is wrong in the first place. that is how conditioning and grooming work, it's how people stay in awful situations for years... and how do you depict that? an abusive relationship is still a relationship, real victims have loved and continue to love those who perpetrate intimate violence against them. you can, from a distance, see and say that the love is wrong and should not exist. but when you're narrating a story from close quarters, you can't effectively differentiate without context, an author depicting as romantic a manifestly abusive relationship and a victim and perpetrator whose inherent sense of themselves, of right and wrong, of boundaries, and acceptable forms of intimacy, has been warped through abuse.

[stackslip]

Lolita is a book that appears to be about seduction but is really about rape. The Incest Diary presents itself as the inverse, a book apparently about rape but really about seduction. But this conceit betrays the further truth — call it the secret under the secret under the secret — that sometimes rape and seduction, coercion and desire, are not opposed at all. This is why the question of whether or not a child “wants it” is irrelevant to the morality of pedophilia (something both pedophiles and many reviewers of The Incest Diary overlook): not because children don’t want it — or do want it — but because “wanting it” is itself something so easily formed by adult violence. And not just the declaration of the wanting — what is a child’s “let’s fuck” but a simulacrum of consent? — but the wanting itself. When a victim of sexual abuse says she wanted it, she is telling us about the sort of person the abuse required her to be. The author says that it is only “as if” her sexual obsession is being raped by the man who created her. Here she is hanging back, knowingly, from the bleaker truth: It is not merely “as if” she is sexually obsessed with the man who gave her half her genetic material, fed and clothed her, made her into a thing that would desire him forever. She is sexually obsessed with him. How, indeed, could it be otherwise? Describing her father letting her out of the closet in which he had locked her, she asks, “How could I not love the man who set me free?”

Silent Treatment: The troubling response to a memoir of incest

[ciaran]

(tags by @dominateeye)

hi, op here. i think you're grossly misinterpreting my point!

i was trying to state that the line between a depiction that condemns and a depiction that romanticizes is subjective, troubled, and extremely difficult to differentiate. i really should not have put the word "context" in there if this is how you read it, when it's not what i was indicating by its use.

one thing is that in a depiction that is only known by the fact that it depicts a certain “problematic” topic, you can't tell without actually knowing the work and its themes and how it deals with its subject matter, what approach it's taking to that work. so unless you engage with a work honestly, you don't know what exactly is going on inside it.

the other, more salient factor, however, is that context is a term that can indicate a wide variety of things—and context isn't always available To You. you don't know the author's life and you don't know the experiences they're depicting. you don't know if they are their own experiences. they don't owe you that information and your assumption that you have access to all the crucial context surrounding a work is exactly what doesn't hold up to me. even contexts are subject to interpretation, and what context might to someone else justify the existence of a work might not justify it to you, which is also kind of what i was getting at and what the quote gets at, by saying that people can and do genuinely experience abuse as not only acceptable but romantic and loving, even as they are painful.

i made this post somewhat quickly and used imprecise language as a result, but the fact that you manage to take away from that that it is the responsibility of artists—who may or may not be survivors themselves—to create works which draw clear lines between condemnation and condonation is really troubling! it's not their responsibility to do anything but make the art that speaks to them. rape culture isn't in the mills and boon bodice ripper that elides consent and sexualises violation—rape culture is, rather, present in the way that communities unite around abusers because victim's demands for justice trouble community cohesion; rape culture is present in sympathy for abusers that is never for victims; rape culture is the epistemological violence in response to victim narratives that defy the norms of acceptable victimhood. it is these same norms of acceptable victim narratives to which you're going back to when faced with the proposition that people can sincerely find love and romance with their abusers and also be abused by them. the line between a narrative that condemns and one that condones is blurry when it's faithful to the full spectrum of truth present in an abusive relationship.

[daxdraggon]

I will never shut up about Grace and Rocky exploring eachother's bodies. I fucking love the interpretation of them being absolute weirdos. I love Rocky being so obsessed with his new besty's bodily functions and anatomy and he doesn't even GO here. He knows jack all about biology! He sees them bones and goes "oh... That's horribly done. Absolutely unstable. I love it."

Meanwhile Grace is foaming at the mouth to try and find a way to politely request Rocky show him hole because "an intelligent monostome???????!!!!!! Please tell me how this works! Please please please I've always wondered Rocky pleas-"

[valtsv]

that feeling when you're going through a security checkpoint and you remember that you forgot to leave the potentially limitless capacity for harm inside you at home 😂😂

[valtsv]

wearing two cursed amulets to manipulate them into competing with each other for ownership of my soul and unintentionally improving my life in their attempts to seduce me

[valtsv]

hiring two duplicitous advisors with opposing agendas to manipulate them into hatefucking each other in front of me while i fujo out about it

[valtsv]

it's not a "love triangle" it's a business opportunity with benefits

[contemptible-scoundrel]

tch... so it's an alliance out of necessity, huh...?

[coelii]

[ewoudcponies]

Twilight finds an unfamiliar stack of books in her territory.