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BE THEY DO CRIMES

Fun fact, some suffragettes used a very similar thing to argue that women should be allowed to vote - because if the “he” in voting law doesn’t include women, then neither does the “he” in any other law, so either women can vote and are law-abiding, OR women cannot vote and are free to steal, not pay taxes, etc. Some people went so far as to break laws to make their point! (’What’s Your Pronoun?’ by Dennis Baron is my source, and a good read).

rudeboimonster

non binaries can do infinite crime

farashasilver

I am not policing anyone. I am saying that you have a moral responsibility (or at least you SHOULD) once you post something like that on the Internet. Warnings don't do shit. We all know that people are curious. Children are curious. No kid actually cares about the under 18 warning. They are impressionable and easily copy behaviour. I was like that, my friends were like that. I'm not saying don't post things like that. I'm just asking, are you ready to take responsibility for the aftermath?

You seem to be laboring under the misconception that I am responsible for internet teenagers’ poor choices. I’m not. Neither is any content creator. Do you spend your free time going after the adult film industry and asking whether they’re ready to “take responsibility” for teenagers that deliberately ignore the 18+ notification and click through to their weird diaper fetish porn?

I was a teenager on the internet once (I’m not going to say back in the day because I have followers that were on Usenet and that’s REALLY back in the day). We didn’t used to have any kind of content warnings at all. I say this jokingly a lot but seriously, back in my day, you could trip over xeno tentacle non-con in the middle of a fic that didn’t look like it was going in that direction, and it wasn’t labeled at all. Ever! You know what was labeled and warned for, left right and center? “This story has slash in it! That’s GAY KISSING!!!”

Seriously though, there used to be a time when the fandom and fic-writing atmosphere was so toxic to same-sex relationships that the content was usually hidden behind a splash screen with an obnoxious warning in cyan comic sans. Sometimes there were “secret instructions” on the disclaimer page - people would hide how to get into their website (“if you read the disclaimer you’ll know to click on the ^_^ face in the bottom left corner of the page to get to the site!” and such nonsense). I grew up in a time on the internet when it was easier to find graphic torture porn and rape-as-woobifying-backstory than it was to find fluffy hand-holding fic with my gay OTP.

And all I can hear when y’all roll up all “THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!” is all the people who forced slash and femslash fans out of their archives, away from their internet space, and into the loosely-organized circle of Geocities webrings that defined fandom in the early 90s. Eventually we all started to congregate on LJ, where content could be locked behind a friends-only filter and people could gather in closed communities where we could be free from harassment by homophobic morons. When the Great Purge of FF.net happened and NC-17 was officially added to their rules as banned content, guess who was most reported to the moderators and most impacted by the policy change? Slash fans. And when Strikethrough happened, it disproportionately effected slash fans. Again.

Teenagers may not be old enough to have fully developed consequence/reward centers in the frontal lobe, but the average age for being able to discern reality from fiction is five years old. It’s horrifically condescending and disingenuous to pretend that teens are so delicate and fragile that reading some smut that disturbs them or isn’t to their tastes is going to drastically upset their psyche. The most that’s going to happen is they’re going to come away from whatever smut they deliberately clicked through the warning to read knowing that people have some weird kinks when it comes to sex. And you know what? YKINMKATO. The end.

octopuscato

We. Are. Not. Your. Mama.

pakhnokh

I don’t know the context but I agree with this so much. This is not only about fandoms or art or fics this is about every creator out there, from singers to actors to comedians, who are told “you are a celebrity, children listen to/watch your content, you should be responsible, and act as a role model” - well , THEY DON’T. The only people who are responsible for their children are their parents. The internet is a free platform open for everybody and no creator should censor themselves for the stuff they create just because you didn’t supervise or limit your child access to the internet. I was a teen on the internet too once, and I saw stuff, and I also lied about the 18 age restriction because dude, teens and children aren’t stupid. They can lie about their birth date. That’s why I don’t bother putting the “no minor” or “you have to prove me you’re more than 18!” disclaimers on my social media profiles (except for privatter but that’s because of their policy) - because why try when every other kid can easily lie (that’s me not belittling the child’s intelligence as some adults really try to do), and because god dammit I’m not the kid’s parent, I don’t create content for kids, and I don’t have to be responsible just because I have an audience. (ps - I know many people won’t agree with what I have to say, but from my personal experience, finding out yaoi and explicit BL content when I was just 14-15 really influenced me and made me the content creator I am today so I don’t regret it. I know for other kids/teens it’s not the same and they can be, heaven forbid, scarred for life, but that’s really not my responsibility.)

la-belle-laide

Oh no, are we really here again? Okay, yes, I have been around since the beginning of the internet, when YAOI WARNING was a thing. Yep, I was there for the crash of live journal, the strikethrough, and the move to AO3. But guess what, I was also there before movies had ratings! What! Yes, I saw Jaws in the movie theater when I was two! My parents took me and my best friend to see prom night in the movie theater when we were 10, scarred for life! I watched The Shining on my 9th birthday 😵‍💫 When I tell you back then, for generation x, even parents did not censor things from their kids.

You know, it’s funny: everyone is so concerned over censoring sexual content from children (as if that is phantom’s job. It’s not fandom’s job, Heck it’s not even the kids’ job, it’s the parents job. Maybe your parents should not be letting you run wild on the internet?) But there is not a heck of a lot of concern about violent content. Y'all watch people die horribly in MCU but we never hear complaints about that.

All of these children need to watch a movie called Quills, about holding creators responsible for how consumers react.

And then read about what “reporting culture” and “fandom purity” did to Xiao Zhan because it’s sickening.

A Chinese idol had millions of fans who adored him for his kindness and good looks. Then, this February, one group of fans accused another o

keplercryptids

"wow you blocked me just cuz i disagreed with you???"

yes. yes, exactly. this is a social media site. i come here to look at pictures of birds and shitpost with my friends. this is not a town hall meeting; i am not your elected official. i do not owe you my energy, my space, or my time. you and i are strangers that use the same website. i can block you for literally any reason and that's okay. take a deep breath. block me too. you'll feel better.

popokko-deactivated20210315

i think u guys have to realize that it’s weird to expect people online to provide details on every aspect of themselves and every opinion they hold. like having a carrd with 15 pages is not a necessity nor is it normal for an online environment ...

theresebelivett

#we need to normalize being afraid strangers on the internet are going to kidnap and eat us again. it was more healthy (x)

kingkumaaa

When the whole party is down but your bard is up

maliciousindungeon

jack had absolutely no right to go this hard

bramblepatch

um excuse me Jack not only may but must go this hard

whitepeopletwitter

samshine-and-lollipops-deactiva

Wait, it got better.

mysharona1987

This is why you should get vaccinated.

Your cats may eat you otherwise.

battleblaze

......yes. if a carnivorous animal is starving, it will eat meat. no it does not have the same morals as humans

mysharona1987

Eh, humans can do it too. Look at the Andes flight.

battleblaze

y e p

eating humans isn’t a purely animal thing when starving-

huariqueje

Les sphinx au dictionnaire - Francine van Hove

French b.1942-

antique-scarecrow

would love to see more non-sexualized nudity like this in art. this, right here? this is every woman: just at home relaxing with her tits out. she doesn’t have her tits out to please anybody but herself–she’s lounging around, she’s hanging out with her cat, she has her tits out just because. that’s a whole mood. that’s relatable, realistic, and very human. and it’s so superior to the massive amount of art we have of women frolicking around with their backs arched to appeal to the male gaze. lady just doesn’t wanna wear a bra. just wants to lounge around with a book and a cat and her tits just hanging. respect

banahbanah

So I was trying to figure out what the artist was portraying here or what was going on and I couldn’t find a lot of info but I did find More

Naked ladies vibing with books and food seems to be her thing and I’m here for it.

antique-scarecrow

This makes an incredible and resounding amount of sense

evilspice

yes

peppapigvevo

come thru bitch

verybestmonica-deactivated20211

If I had legs like his I'd show them off all the time too

peppapigvevo

If I had this much ass I'd wear skin tight pencil skirts all the time

alone-to-dance-deactivated20240

KING HAS LEGS

smooththegoofyshark

Lord has CAKE

whitepeopletwitter

literallyaflame

not to hop in on the Hottest Discourse but:

age gaps aren’t inherently bad between adults, but they are incredibly suspect in instances where one party has significantly more agency and experience due to their age. a thirty year old dating a forty year old, for instance, isn’t all that big a deal. but an eighteen year old should be VERY suspicious of a thirty year old wanting to get with them. they’ve had twelve years to establish themselves as an adult. an eighteen year old has had maybe a few months to do so.

i’m saying this as a person who briefly dated a thirty year old at age 19 (it wasn’t good lol), and also as a person with happily married parents who have a 12 year age gap. the difference is that my mom was in her thirties when she met my dad; she’d had plenty of time to find a career and a name for herself in the world.

stay safe, love urself, try to make good decisions but don’t beat yourself up if you’ve ever been the victim of an unbalanced or abusive relationship

rednightmare18

I need yall to understand that healthy 30 year olds look at 19-year-olds and see kids. Not in a demeaning way – but in a way that automatically removes that 19-year-old from romantic consideration. And even if you “look very mature for your age,” a healthy 30 year old will learn you are 19 and back out of that crush at 90 mph no matter how good your contour game is.

slyrivers

I love this so much, I’m gonna start saying “nuts” we need to bring it back

libralthinking

I love b&w proper ladies breaking character with “sonofabitch”

yooterus-deactivated20220126

“OHH you’re following me, oUUhhh I didn’t know that!”

cowboy-garfield

It brings me such joy that people seem to have always done the *sputters and blows raspberries like you’re having a stroke* thing when they stammer

fandomthesickness

God damn my soul 😂

sandersstudies

I swear my cishet husband sometimes wakes up in the morning like “time to be an ally to my bisexual wife by being just a little bit performative” but it’s okay because I love him

sandersstudies

The cashier had a pride mask on and my husband whispered to me “I want to tell her I like her mask but I feel like it might be weird.”

sandersstudies

My husband will see a piece of pride merch and just put it in front of my face even if it has nothing to do with me and will just be like “this seems like something... you would like”

sandersstudies

Husband: *sees a rainbow*

Husband: hmm. Wife.

dogiloveturtles

ma'am, it seems as if your husband is one of them himbos

sad3girl

the only show that is allowed to have its characters call each other ‘sis’ and ‘bro’ is the umbrella academy because not a single hargreeves knows how families work