I dunno, I don’t think stories are reflective of the artist’s true beliefs necessarily, whether beliefs we agree or disagree with.
The problem is that most people don’t think about these things because they are unthinkable and go against their nature, and many people’s inherent state is to assume the best of people because if they didn’t nothing would get done that benefitted anybody.
Okay, but there’s nothing inherently wrong with fetishes or kinks as long as they’re consented to. I don’t think putting them in a story is necessarily wrong or indicative of any larger problem with a person necessarily, only if they then do them non consensually in real life is it a problem.
Yeah, which is why I’m not arguing that he should have been arrested as soon as he wrote it lol, just that when a powerful dude is outing his rape fetish and linking it to his artistic inspiration you have ask yourself some questions! And the women in his life if you can.
I dunno, I don’t think stories are reflective of the artist’s true beliefs necessarily, whether beliefs we agree or disagree with.
The problem is that most people don’t think about these things because they are unthinkable and go against their nature, and many people’s inherent state is to assume the best of people because if they didn’t nothing would get done that benefitted anybody.
It doesn’t have anything to do with his beliefs, it has to do with writers and their habit of barely disguising their fetishes.
Okay, but there’s nothing inherently wrong with fetishes or kinks as long as they’re consented to. I don’t think putting them in a story is necessarily wrong or indicative of any larger problem with a person necessarily, only if they then do them non consensually in real life is it a problem.
Yeah, which is why I’m not arguing that he should have been arrested as soon as he wrote it lol, just that when a powerful dude is outing his rape fetish and linking it to his artistic inspiration you have ask yourself some questions! And the women in his life if you can.