I just really need it to be acknowledged how many of the adults deemed gross for their investment in teen characters by this Think Of The Children rhetoric are themselves parents, because this never gets discussed - and that elision is, I think, extremely revealing.
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Can they create or consume fanworks about the content? Well, we might say yes, provided there's no sex or romance involved... but then we're arguing that sexual content in fandom should belong solely to the same minors we're saying need to be protected from it, so. Hmmmm.
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At this point, I can hear in the distance the outraged screeching of antis: "OH MY GOD, JUST DON'T BE GROSS, IS THAT SO HARD?" LISTEN, IF YOUR ONLY DEFINITION OF "GROSS" IS "STUFF THAT MAKES ME, SPECIFICALLY, UNCOMFORTABLE, SUBJECT TO VARIOUS INDIVIDUAL CAVEATS," IT KIND OF IS
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I've definitely said something similar to this on my community listserv when people are asking what the police can do to fix a mild inconvenience, but a thing can be annoying or upsetting to you without it actually being a flaw in the system, or a crime, or a real problem.
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Welcome to interacting with other people! Sometimes our needs and desires are incompatible with each other, but this doesn't mean one person must automatically be Morally Bad! We just have to negotiate with each other and work on personal boundaries!
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