#consanguiphobia

[miracestuous]

Is it really so hard to imagine that consang isn't a kink thing? That maybe, just maybe, some people happen to fall in real, honest love with those they are related to? I suppose viewing it as some perversion makes it easier to dismiss, to decide "this is just another freak for me to insult", but that doesn't make it so.

I'm old enough to remember when every straight person was convinced, CONVINCED, that gay couples were into it for exclusively sexual reasons! Despite every second of the AIDS crisis displaying the lengths of love these couples would go for eachother, reactionary narratives maintained the majority. It wasn't until much later that the "love is love" narrative finally caught hold, and now...to say gay people are in it exclusively for sex is considered as backwards as can be.

And honestly, even if it is sexual for some, I don't see why that is deserving of disrespect. Sex is a normal part of life. What matters is if anyone is hurt, and in consang...nobody really is.

But again, consanguiphobes don't want to admit that, because that means they do not get to be the good guy. They have to admit they have done harm, and go through the work of improving. And who on earth wants to do that?

[marxist-sisterkisser]

i really didn't think i had to say this, but consanguiphobia (anti-incest bigotry) is strictly prohibited on my blog. i will block you if i see you in my comments/reblogs deliberately spouting off that nonsense. that also goes for any other bigotry, honestly.

this is a space for me to vent out thoughts and forward causes i believe in. not your debate club. my blog my rules and if you don't like it you can unfollow.

[miracestuous]

It's just so frustrating that the mere mention of "incest" raises huge alarms in most peoples' minds.

Like, if you stop and think about it logically, its easy to recognize that consanguiphobia is bullshit bigotry. It's as simple as recognizing eugenicist and puritanical language. All very simple stuff that your average leftist can comprehend in other contexts no problem.

But the problem is that consanguiphobia is so deeply ingrained in all of us. We are told it's wrong by our elders from the first moment we say, as children, we want to marry our family members because we love them so much. We're bombarded with propaganda, shown those offspring of families which are the most extreme examples, and told "Look how ugly and horrifying they are!" as though that means they are not even people. As though they cannot possibly live fulfilling lives like that. As if its even a remotely common outcome from consang relationships. We're even shown them as villains, horror movies so readily present incest associated with cannibalism, and Game of Thrones made very sure to show the Starks as the non-incestuous good guys, and the Lannisters as incestuous villains. By the time we're old enough to even conceive of a real relationship, the door on consang has been so thoroughly shut most of us can never reopen it.

And so when someone does mention it, when someone does dare to say "Hey, maybe its worth examining this stigma, and asking who it actually harms", nobody even stops to think they could be right. They spew thought-terminating cliches about Hapsburgs at best, and at worst, they harass you until you are driven out of society. But at no point do they actually think.

Because that would require confronting yourself.

[miracestuous]

Perhaps the most unfair consanguiphobic bullshit has to be the association so many have in their minds between consanguinamory and CSA. The relationships we want legalized and normalized are specifically CONSENSUAL romantisexual relationships between related individuals. Meaning that there's no C nor SA involved in anything we are defending. The fact that so many cannot understand this distinction infuriates me.

[miracestuous]

Came across this today (reblogged by a very large account, and this post has hundreds of thousands of notes) and got so pissed

This is a commercial which is so incredibly non-explicit it ran as an ad for a major company!!! Literally all that happens is two siblings have shitty coffee, and one flirtatious comment is made. And yet people treat it like *a random still image* from it is fair to treat as pornographic. All because they are siblings. And they're hardly the only ones, there's an SNL skit parodying this ad, where they get very explicit.

Consang is inherently a sexual thing in so many minds, to the point where any hint of romantic attraction is immediately warped into the explicit entirely to demonize it. It's the same as people used to treat queers--That the idea that we may love someone of the same gender, or disagree with our own assigned sex, must be a perversion. It's the same exact lines of bigotry drawn, and it is constantly spewed by people who are themselves queer. Who should know at least a little bit better than to say things like this.

And the worst part is? I probably reblogged this myself laughing at some point in the past. Before I figured out how messed up it is. Its so deeply ingrained in us, that this kind of thing probably never even clocked as potential bigotry until recently.

At least I can say I have grown as a person, that I now find such a sentiment repulsive. But it is saddening to see just how far we still have to go before consang people can be as free as anyone to love who they love...

[marxist-sisterkisser]

consanguiphobia is the oldest bigotry in the world. if you oppose bigotry, you must stand with incest. it is your problem if this makes you uncomfortable tbqh

[marxist-sisterkisser]

the rate of death threats and hate asks that get sent to this blog exponentially increased after i pinned that post about anti-incest bigotry. it makes me wonder how many people interacted with this blog out of fetishism before i made that post. curious indeed.

[marxist-sisterkisser]

imagine reblogging my pro-incest meme and tagging it with "not safe for all viewers." get off my blog and don't let the door hit your consanguiphobic ass on the way out. you are part of the problem i spend so much time and energy speaking against.