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I’m rambling. It’s what I do. I have much to say, and can’t speak them as eloquently as I’d like. Thanks, ADHD. So, fuck it, this is a mess, but these are my true feelings.
The internet is becoming more and more ‘family friendly,’ and I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that I truly believe that ‘family friendly’ is just a puritanical dog whistle. Puritanism and fascism are two sides of the same coin, and because people can’t see that, that’s why the internet is going to shit. That and antis. Antis, while not the majority, are definitely the loudest and most obnoxious. They’re the first to attack creators and scare people away from making the art they want to and want to strip peoples’ express and bodily autonomy away, all in the name of children.
Oh, who will think of the children?
They don’t care about children. Children are nothing, but shields to them. Who would argue against protecting kids? But this isn’t about protecting kids, it’s about censoring anyone who isn’t a strict puritan.
You’ve probably noticed, or at the very least, I hope you’ve noticed, that the internet is slowly, but surely becoming more and more censored and puritanical and I really hope that bothers you as much as it bothers me. Censorship is evil, and in the end it helps no one. Now, I’m not saying that you have to look at everything that squicks or triggers you, but you need to acknowledge that these things exist, and not everyone will be uncomfortable with the things that make you uncomfortable, that people will love them, and the things you can’t stand to look at still deserve to exist because if things and people you don’t like must be purged, then the things you enjoy and love can be purged, too.
Though, this seems to only happen with things of a sexual nature. Violent, gorey things, however, never get seen as transgressive because puritan and fascists are violent. They want to hurt people because the deification of violence is rooted in religion, and the love of anything sexual is not. People are so loudly and fiercely determined to prove that they aren’t degenerates that they’ll scream from the rooftops that they’ll hunt down anyone who is, even if that person actually isn’t, they just aren’t as pious as them.
The whole ‘kill your local pedophile’ and ‘kill your local rapist’ are two amazing examples of this. In my last essays, I explained that the term pedophile is an umbrella term that is simply someone who is sexually and/or romantically attracted to children. It’s an attraction, and nothing more, but these people who scream KYLP don’t care about that, they just believe that simply having the attraction is proof enough that that person deserves to die, and that’s wrong. No one deserves to die. Saying that anyone deserves to die is fascist, and will give people the grounds to harm anyone they want. You are not the judge, jury and executioner to others. If you’re allowed to harm anyone you don’t like, then others are allowed to harm you, for any reason, and I don’t want that. I don’t want anyone to be harmed, I want people to chill the fuck out.
You probably read this, thinking, ‘oh, this person is just a freaky pervert,’ and you’re right, I am, and I deserve to exist and feel safe just like everyone else.
The internet is becoming more and more ‘family friendly,’ and I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that I truly believe that ‘family friendly’ is just a puritanical dog whistle. Puritanism and fascism are two sides of the same coin, and because people can’t see that, that’s why the internet is going to shit. That and antis. Antis, while not the majority, are definitely the loudest and most obnoxious. They’re the first to attack creators and scare people away from making the art they want to and want to strip peoples’ express and bodily autonomy away, all in the name of children.
Oh, who will think of the children?
They don’t care about children. Children are nothing, but shields to them. Who would argue against protecting kids? But this isn’t about protecting kids, it’s about censoring anyone who isn’t a strict puritan.
You’ve probably noticed, or at the very least, I hope you’ve noticed, that the internet is slowly, but surely becoming more and more censored and puritanical and I really hope that bothers you as much as it bothers me. Censorship is evil, and in the end it helps no one. Now, I’m not saying that you have to look at everything that squicks or triggers you, but you need to acknowledge that these things exist, and not everyone will be uncomfortable with the things that make you uncomfortable, that people will love them, and the things you can’t stand to look at still deserve to exist because if things and people you don’t like must be purged, then the things you enjoy and love can be purged, too.
Though, this seems to only happen with things of a sexual nature. Violent, gorey things, however, never get seen as transgressive because puritan and fascists are violent. They want to hurt people because the deification of violence is rooted in religion, and the love of anything sexual is not. People are so loudly and fiercely determined to prove that they aren’t degenerates that they’ll scream from the rooftops that they’ll hunt down anyone who is, even if that person actually isn’t, they just aren’t as pious as them.
The whole ‘kill your local pedophile’ and ‘kill your local rapist’ are two amazing examples of this. In my last essays, I explained that the term pedophile is an umbrella term that is simply someone who is sexually and/or romantically attracted to children. It’s an attraction, and nothing more, but these people who scream KYLP don’t care about that, they just believe that simply having the attraction is proof enough that that person deserves to die, and that’s wrong. No one deserves to die. Saying that anyone deserves to die is fascist, and will give people the grounds to harm anyone they want. You are not the judge, jury and executioner to others. If you’re allowed to harm anyone you don’t like, then others are allowed to harm you, for any reason, and I don’t want that. I don’t want anyone to be harmed, I want people to chill the fuck out.
You probably read this, thinking, ‘oh, this person is just a freaky pervert,’ and you’re right, I am, and I deserve to exist and feel safe just like everyone else.
