lines-and-edges:

heavenscalyx:

haedonists:

caterfree10:

discoursecatharsis:

Oh no, they’re turning on actually published YA novels.

(above submitted by anon)

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You heard it here first folks, from now on, there can never be YA novels about teenagers experiencing sexuality. Since pretty much all published authors are adults, this is illegal now. Only teenagers can write stories about teenagers having sex. How dare adults write about their experiences with discovering their sexuality when they were teens, it’s so gross

These people have no common sense, I swear. There are so many horrible issues in the world, and they act like some YA novel is the end of society as we know it

GEE I LOVE HOW ANTIS ARE COOPTING CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN LOGIC

Also loving the fact that it’s yet again women in particular that these packs of brain-fried neopuritans are specifically targeting.

Reading the above is sort of fascinating, in a dark way. Because look at how OP twists themselves into a pretzel to provide their ass-pulled, lurid and salacious interpretation of why an adult YA author would write about teenage sexuality. I’ve noticed this thing again and again on here – a small army of teenagers who seem mentally stuck in a paranoiac view of reality, where seemingly everyone is out to get them, where every adult who interacts with them is conceptualized as a Potential Predator and where child-molesters lurk behind every corner and in every shadow. That’s why explanations that most adults who write about teen sexuality are basing it on their own memories and recollections, self-inserting into their own pasts, fall on deaf ears – because it runs counter to the paranoid filter-bubble, where the only reason an adult would write about teen sexuality is an attraction to teens. You can point out that your reaction to you or other adults going after teens is basically

and it’d still fall on deaf ears – because, again, it contradicts the filter-bubble and mustn’t be permitted to break through it.

I’d like to make some scathing quip about a society that detains parents over photos of their babies naked in the tub (we’re still laughing about that here, a decade later) naturally producing a generation of perpetually terrified and tremulous teenagers, with paranoia complexes the size of the moon, but I’ve a feeling it touches too close to the actual truth to be much of a joke.

This is because the antis are fueled by MRAs, 4Ch*n, TERFs, and other extremist groups. The more I see of this shit, the more convinced I am of this. The language is the same, they sound just like the time that 4ch*nners made socks to infiltrate Black Twitter.

These are socks pretending to be teenagers, actual teens who’ve been recruited into bullshit misogyny cults, or both. 

I suspect most of it is happening indirectly enough that it’s very hard to track down all the origin chains, as opposed to via direct sockpuppet accounts (though those exist too), but the linguistics make it undeniable that there is at the very least substantial cross-pollination between “anti” circles and right-wing extremist recruitment circles.