Re: ♡ Kowai Desu ♡ (Everyone Is Welcome!)
Posted: May 2nd, '22, 03:26
I don't know if I'm criminally complacent, overly cynical, or just negligent, but I don't get worked up over sexualizing children in fiction.
My reasoning, if you can call it that, is that everything of that nature is better out in the open where it can be scrutinized and monitored and dealt with appropriately, rather than driven underground where it's hard to catch when it gets to the dangerous levels
...and that it's better for people of.... difficult inclinations.... to have the safe outlet of fiction, rather than risk such feelings getting strengthened by repression and potentially irrupt into actionably serious danger of reality.
I've heard the counterargument that it runs the risks of 'normalizing' it and increasing likelihood of RL criminal behavior, but having lived in a region where the taboo topic of abuse and incest led to a much higher incidence of those problems -and higher suicide levels, obviously correlated- I find that I just don't buy those counterarguments...
Maybe I'm wrong, who knows. But there it is.
Also, 16 just doesn't seem that child-like to me? I mean, you're post puberty at that point, and while the mentality hasn't finished growing, the physical impulses are already present, so trying to pretend they don't even exist is just hypocritical... if it's a huge age disparity that's one thing, but for peers, it's hard for me to see the problem....
Edit: I lived for over a decade without a car in a town with minimal or no public transportation -it's quite doable. You just need a bike with a basket, and to set aside a budget for the occasional taxi (or uber or lyft, these days).
Honestly my budget for that was less than the costs of owning a car, so it's a good deal. There are definitely options!
I did occasionally resort to hiking down to the sheriff's office and bribing them with muffins to drive me somewhere (especially if I was trying to transport something heavy).
But that's only because I'm bad with socializing so I didn't really have a good rapport with neighbors or nearby friends to ask. And the sheriff's department is all full of people whose whole schtick is (supposedly) to help and aid their local populace, so they usually felt obligated to either take me themselves or call one of THEIR contacts to take me. Even when they couldn't, because of being busy with something else, they always gave me a lift back home on their way to wherever they were needed.
Then I ended up taking care of all the family Elders and needed a car to transport them to various medical facilities frequently.
But until then, it worked great!
My reasoning, if you can call it that, is that everything of that nature is better out in the open where it can be scrutinized and monitored and dealt with appropriately, rather than driven underground where it's hard to catch when it gets to the dangerous levels
...and that it's better for people of.... difficult inclinations.... to have the safe outlet of fiction, rather than risk such feelings getting strengthened by repression and potentially irrupt into actionably serious danger of reality.
I've heard the counterargument that it runs the risks of 'normalizing' it and increasing likelihood of RL criminal behavior, but having lived in a region where the taboo topic of abuse and incest led to a much higher incidence of those problems -and higher suicide levels, obviously correlated- I find that I just don't buy those counterarguments...
Maybe I'm wrong, who knows. But there it is.
Also, 16 just doesn't seem that child-like to me? I mean, you're post puberty at that point, and while the mentality hasn't finished growing, the physical impulses are already present, so trying to pretend they don't even exist is just hypocritical... if it's a huge age disparity that's one thing, but for peers, it's hard for me to see the problem....
Edit: I lived for over a decade without a car in a town with minimal or no public transportation -it's quite doable. You just need a bike with a basket, and to set aside a budget for the occasional taxi (or uber or lyft, these days).
Honestly my budget for that was less than the costs of owning a car, so it's a good deal. There are definitely options!
I did occasionally resort to hiking down to the sheriff's office and bribing them with muffins to drive me somewhere (especially if I was trying to transport something heavy).
But that's only because I'm bad with socializing so I didn't really have a good rapport with neighbors or nearby friends to ask. And the sheriff's department is all full of people whose whole schtick is (supposedly) to help and aid their local populace, so they usually felt obligated to either take me themselves or call one of THEIR contacts to take me. Even when they couldn't, because of being busy with something else, they always gave me a lift back home on their way to wherever they were needed.
Then I ended up taking care of all the family Elders and needed a car to transport them to various medical facilities frequently.
But until then, it worked great!
