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Where to draw the line?
Hello! I'm asking about the certain tropes found in fiction especially in the bl world such as rape and incest.
I know that there are people who have a preference for it, hell l enjoy a guilty pleasure of incest trope every now and then since its just fiction. But lately I'm starting to feel bad for liking such tropes. I don't condone the tropes when it occurs in real life of course because its terrible period. But I can't help but ask myself if I'm okay with said tropes in fiction does that mean a part of me thinks its okay in real life? A person having a preference for the "rape" trope, does that mean the person's a rapist and support it? Can saying "its just fiction" excuse people in liking other tropes such as shota? And if they like shota, does that mean they're a child predator???
I'm sorry if this sounds like a mess. English is not my first language. I'm sure this question might have already been asked in this site in different ways. I just want to ask your opinions and thoughts about this. I might have just been overthinking though.
I think simply the fact that you are worrying about this already shows that you are a reasonable person that can clearly see the difference between fiction and reality.
Scientists have already done work on similar topics (maybe you have heard of the "Do shooting games make real shootings more likely?"-debate).
As far as I'm informed we are quite ...... 1 reply
This topic is very blurry and a line is not clear. While it's true that many of these works are just fiction, fiction can indirectly impact how a person perceives situations. Stories are made with characters that are at least partially realistic to a point we can at least relate to them, which is what makes them good.
There's another point about pe...... reply
Its hard to draw a clear line because fiction can influence reality a bit - like it desensitizes you to violence or sex. But you can make the grey area where you're starting to think terrible things are okay to do in real life. Most people who like messed up fiction are fairly normal and good. They do it because like you said it's a guilty pleasure...... reply
I'd say for the most part those tropes are things that most people can read and not have a second though about. You can consume bad tropes healthily by acknowledging why it's bad and making sure you're not normalizing it. Already you show that you can reflect on these scenes and understand why they're bad, so I don't believe you are a bad person.
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well, before you can just pass this and say that this is all just a fiction. and it's not like the author actually support it, it just like "what if". but the world is changing so does the mind of the people. and by that something like this have to be reevaluated for people to read in this generation by today mindset. and tbh, today mindset is kind...... reply
I think that everything we do is a reflection of ourselves.
I used to enjoy some of those bad tropes until recently, but after I
thought long and hard about how this fiction perverts and distorts
the reality of rape, incest, abuse, pedophilia, etc. and what that
was doing to the people who really have been victims of such
things- I stopped rea...... reply
I think it depends on whether you are romanticizing/fetishizing the "thing" itself (shota, rape, incest) or whether it is more because you like the... "idea" of it? What I mean is that many people who have a rape fetish keep it completely separate from the real world, and in no way would want to be violated in such a disgusting and degrading way in...... reply
I think you know how to differentiate fiction from reality, and also i think in most cases "it's just fiction" it's kind of a good excuse, not everyone that reads gory manga wants to see everyone die in a gruesome way, and not everyone that reads shota is a active pedo (it's still pretty weird tho). Things like that are just porn anyway, so it work...... 1 reply
