fantastic Foz posts from a while ago, addressing the ‘well just censor content and then you’re not godless heathens’ fallacy…

fozmeadows:

redshoesnblueskies:

Right now with the bullshit being thrown at the OTW and AO3, these articles are a must-read and I’ll keep reblogging them for the duration.  But because they take up a lot of dash space, i’ll only reblog them individually every few days – meanwhile this post with direct links will be reblogged as daily as I can.

[cw rape mention cw sexual abuse mention (content warnings do not apply evenly across each of these posts…and frankly the only one that really triggered *me* was the one put forth by the ‘pro-censorship’ questioner – for stupid shock value.  fuck.  what a fucking asshole move]

fozmeadows: Consider my metaphoric table well and truly flipped.

fozmeadows: And if pointing all that out ruined your post, then maybe it needed ruining.

fozmeadows: but I genuinely don’t believe there’s a safe, reliable mechanism for excluding [some fanfic] that won’t massively fuck over a whole bunch of other stuff in the process.

fozmeadows: To use an analogy, there are plenty of people in the world with deathly nut allergies, but that doesn’t mean we ban an entire food group: it means we label things that have nuts in them

fozmeadows: when people single out the kind of fics that are classed as badwrong porn without considering that they might play a role in the sexual enjoyment and healing of victims, it’s very difficult to accept the simultaneous claim that all this moral crusading is for the benefitof victims.

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The series of posts begins:

“ISTG if I see one more fandom post on this hellsite aggressively misidentify something as paedophilia I’m going to flip every goddamn table.

Consider my metaphoric table well and truly flipped.As of right now, I’ve officially reached my limit for things being called paedophilia that are not, in fact, paedophilic. Specifically: I am sick of seeing fictional relationships where one party is in their late teens and the other their twenties being called paedophilic by default, as though it’s impossible for such a pairing to be anything else. I am likewise sick of seeing anyone who enjoys, creates or otherwise participates in such narratives being called a paedophile apologist or sympathiser. I understand that any conversation about what is or is not paedophilia is going to be inherently uncomfortable for a lot of people, and that’s as it bloody well should be, given the subject matter. But it’s precisely because both the crime and the accusation are so very, very serious that the topic needs to be clearly discussed.“

A summary of things I have said!