My answer: adults are, both functionally and in terms of marketing, an integral part of the YA target audience. You can argue that they shouldn’t be, but I’m not going to agree, and for two main reasons:
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Teen YA fans who don’t want to interact with adults? That’s valid! But it also doesn’t mean adults don’t belong and are committing a moral offence by enjoying teen works! Yes, even if sex and romance are involved! Really and truly!
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(Please, I beg you: let us not have yet another rehashing of the difference between fictional people and real ones when it comes to sexual anything. Wanting to fuck MCU Loki no more makes someone a genocide apologist than adults writing Sterek is pedophilia.)
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Is there still room for discussion about wider social trends re: youth and culture and sexuality (among other things) in reference to particular works or authors? Yeah, always! But the relevance of those convos does not distill to Adults Liking Teen Things Bad, Always.
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Just… please. I am so tired. Please do not invite rebranded anti discourse to jump from fandom wank into mainstream YA/SFF spaces. Nothing good will come of it. I have seen where those arguments lead, even the well-intentioned ones, and it’s nowhere good.
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Context != Content, and Content != Moral Compass, either of the author or the reader. Far better to explore themes in fiction than anywhere else. When did we stop teaching critical thinking??
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