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kittydesadeOhh boy. The shitstorm I got for this rant. I wonder how many people are checking this LJ now for the refutes and replies. Ah well.
To reply to the point that this isn't going to do anything, and it's better left to a private journal. I have but this to say to you. "Be a nice Minbari! Conform! Be quiet! Admit you are inadquate!"
Bang.
If I sit back and be quiet, then it won't do anything. If I don't try and at least provoke some thought, then, you're right. Nothing's going to change. So, no, this isn't better left to a private journal. Granted, maybe I should have cleaned up the language and toned down the vitriol a bit. I'll give you and a couple other people that point. But, no. I will not sit down, I will not shut up. And I will not believe that I'm not going to change anything.
Someone accused me of being pro-censorship. Hell. If this person knew me as who I am rather than a name on a posting board, they would soooo not be saying that. I'm against censorship, book-burning, book-banning, etc. What I am also against is people writing less than their best. I believe that the solution to all the trash out there is that people need to sit up and go 'hey. I can be better than this' and actually do it. Or, alternatively, they need to sit up and realize that 'hey. this is wrong.' and change their behavior accordingly.
See, you are what you read and write. Science has proven this. I could probably dig up the studies if someone wants, but it's been recently confirmed that the more you use your brains and the more you keep mentally active, the more fit your brain is. You are what you think, and if all this hideously bad smut and scary rape fic is symptomatic of what people think, then dear god. The next generation of workers is going straight to the porn industry.
Let's see, what else can I refute.
Some people are saying that this isn't relevant to where I posted it. I assure you, it is. I may sound like a Republican conservative, and being a Democratic liberal I'm probably going straight to hell for this, but I assure you that this is a more insidious problem than a lot of people think. Hell. I'm probably guilty of compounding it myself. I used to write a lot of fic that wasn't much better. But hey, I never posted it. And you know what? I grew out of it. And there are a lot of people out there who went through the same thing. Unfortunately a lot more people are stuck on the 'smut' setting.
Okay, I just got another well thought out reply. I like that. And she? He? The person made a good point.
I don't have any objections, myself, to a lot of the genres or plot points I ranted about as concepts. I don't mean to make blanket objections to BDSM, rape, yaoi, etc. What I do mean to object to and what I do dislike is rape without reason, BDSM without explanation or plot. I can't stand the growing trend to have all this sex without any sort of background. Romance novels have more plot than some... hell, most of these stories. I know, I've read some romance novels.
It's not the people who write a story and put a rape into it, in graphic detail, that I get all pissy about. It's the people who write rape, then comfort sex, then more rape, then more comfort sex, all without any sort of reason or plot or storyline to go with it. There's no exploration of the reaction to the rape, there's no daily life for the BDSM couple to frame their bedroom activities. There's no thought. There's just lust.
I don't want people to censor their websites. I don't want people feel bad about their personal lifestyles, and their sexual preferences. I just want people to think. Because it seems to me that there's precious little of that going around.
To reply to the point that this isn't going to do anything, and it's better left to a private journal. I have but this to say to you. "Be a nice Minbari! Conform! Be quiet! Admit you are inadquate!"
Bang.
If I sit back and be quiet, then it won't do anything. If I don't try and at least provoke some thought, then, you're right. Nothing's going to change. So, no, this isn't better left to a private journal. Granted, maybe I should have cleaned up the language and toned down the vitriol a bit. I'll give you and a couple other people that point. But, no. I will not sit down, I will not shut up. And I will not believe that I'm not going to change anything.
Someone accused me of being pro-censorship. Hell. If this person knew me as who I am rather than a name on a posting board, they would soooo not be saying that. I'm against censorship, book-burning, book-banning, etc. What I am also against is people writing less than their best. I believe that the solution to all the trash out there is that people need to sit up and go 'hey. I can be better than this' and actually do it. Or, alternatively, they need to sit up and realize that 'hey. this is wrong.' and change their behavior accordingly.
See, you are what you read and write. Science has proven this. I could probably dig up the studies if someone wants, but it's been recently confirmed that the more you use your brains and the more you keep mentally active, the more fit your brain is. You are what you think, and if all this hideously bad smut and scary rape fic is symptomatic of what people think, then dear god. The next generation of workers is going straight to the porn industry.
Let's see, what else can I refute.
Some people are saying that this isn't relevant to where I posted it. I assure you, it is. I may sound like a Republican conservative, and being a Democratic liberal I'm probably going straight to hell for this, but I assure you that this is a more insidious problem than a lot of people think. Hell. I'm probably guilty of compounding it myself. I used to write a lot of fic that wasn't much better. But hey, I never posted it. And you know what? I grew out of it. And there are a lot of people out there who went through the same thing. Unfortunately a lot more people are stuck on the 'smut' setting.
Okay, I just got another well thought out reply. I like that. And she? He? The person made a good point.
I don't have any objections, myself, to a lot of the genres or plot points I ranted about as concepts. I don't mean to make blanket objections to BDSM, rape, yaoi, etc. What I do mean to object to and what I do dislike is rape without reason, BDSM without explanation or plot. I can't stand the growing trend to have all this sex without any sort of background. Romance novels have more plot than some... hell, most of these stories. I know, I've read some romance novels.
It's not the people who write a story and put a rape into it, in graphic detail, that I get all pissy about. It's the people who write rape, then comfort sex, then more rape, then more comfort sex, all without any sort of reason or plot or storyline to go with it. There's no exploration of the reaction to the rape, there's no daily life for the BDSM couple to frame their bedroom activities. There's no thought. There's just lust.
I don't want people to censor their websites. I don't want people feel bad about their personal lifestyles, and their sexual preferences. I just want people to think. Because it seems to me that there's precious little of that going around.
