First Amendment and all that stuff....
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fandomaniax-posted from my lj, but it's f-locked over there
*sigh*
here's the deal. as a rule, i don't read Wincest. i've read... three. and two of those? i skipped over the really squicky scene(s). and i don't write it, either. so what am i doing posting on this particular subject? the principal of the thing, and that people really should pay closer attention to what they read.
i'm not going to name names, anonimity is safe here. i've had (at least) two people on my flist (that i know of, anyway) get busted on, ragged on, insulted, nasty comments left in their various ljs because they wrote wincest, and it was properly tagged as such.
here's the deal. proper reading skills are required to read the phrase "Pairing: Sam/Dean"... or whatever your pairing may be. there's also the phrase "Rating: Adult." these are the kind of fics i just scroll right on by, don't stop, just keep going. that's the point of this information in the header. (i'm sure many many people skip over my "gen" or "Dean/OFC; NC-17" fics.)
i don't even read it; so why would i take the time to read through a fic, and then comment, "that's sick!" or "ewww!! they're doing what????" and while i believe there are some things that should not be written by sane, healthy adults, i'm not being forced to read it.
to quote one of my favourite sayings, "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" (Voltaire, it's in my sidebar at my lj)
your LJ counts as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of expression, freedom of opinions, and freedom of thought. and as well it should be.
any kinds of fic is allowed to be posted here, as long as it has the proper header.
*sigh*
here's the deal. as a rule, i don't read Wincest. i've read... three. and two of those? i skipped over the really squicky scene(s). and i don't write it, either. so what am i doing posting on this particular subject? the principal of the thing, and that people really should pay closer attention to what they read.
i'm not going to name names, anonimity is safe here. i've had (at least) two people on my flist (that i know of, anyway) get busted on, ragged on, insulted, nasty comments left in their various ljs because they wrote wincest, and it was properly tagged as such.
here's the deal. proper reading skills are required to read the phrase "Pairing: Sam/Dean"... or whatever your pairing may be. there's also the phrase "Rating: Adult." these are the kind of fics i just scroll right on by, don't stop, just keep going. that's the point of this information in the header. (i'm sure many many people skip over my "gen" or "Dean/OFC; NC-17" fics.)
i don't even read it; so why would i take the time to read through a fic, and then comment, "that's sick!" or "ewww!! they're doing what????" and while i believe there are some things that should not be written by sane, healthy adults, i'm not being forced to read it.
to quote one of my favourite sayings, "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" (Voltaire, it's in my sidebar at my lj)
your LJ counts as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of expression, freedom of opinions, and freedom of thought. and as well it should be.
any kinds of fic is allowed to be posted here, as long as it has the proper header.
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Date: 2006-08-08 05:43 pm (UTC)I, myself, was molested by my own father at age sixteen. It's something I still haven't gotten over. Something that I don't think I ever will get over. Although I've always been bisexual, started recognizing at age thirteen that I was attracted to girls, I've leaned far more towards the lesbian side ever since then because the thought of being touched by a man like that makes me panic. And anyone touching me, even a hand on the shoulder, without me initializing it, freaks me out.
I know it can destroy lives.
However... I read sibling incest. My Harry Potter OTP is Sirius/Regulus. I'm a fan of Magenta/Riff Raff in Rocky Horror. And Kozue/Miki in Utena is beautifully tragic to me. I don't read parent/child, or even parental figure of any sort/child. I look at the warnings and pass over them. That's what the warnings are there for. There isn't any sense in upsetting myself by reading something that will just bring back memories I'd rather push to the back of my mind.
No, sibling-cest does not bring back these memories. Because, nineteen times out of twenty, the incest is consensual. Both parties agree to it. In a way, that's healing for me, to think that for some people it is a choice and not something forced upon them. This probably makes sense only to myself. It doesn't mean that I want to have sex with a member of my family, consensually. It just means that I like reading these pairings, because for whatever reason, they touch me.