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the best responses to a stranger casting moral aspersions in an attempt to publicly humiliate you are, 1. ignoring the person entirely, 2. explaining that you refuse to engage in the conversation and bidding them an honest good day, and 3. "kiss my ass."

A gold-coated statue of a naked Trump on display at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. “The Orange Plague.” by Danish artist Jens Galschiø Inscription: "I am sitting on the back of a man. He is sinking under my burden. I will do anything to help him. Except step down from his back -Leo Tolstoy

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This is part of what I'm referring to with many people demanding stories that reassure them they're a good person. They want the moral instruction because otherwise, rather than processing the reading experience, there's a thrum of "am I bad? am I bad? what if someone finds out I'm bad?"

Tumblr post by graftini:

stories about abuse are allowed to exist without reducing themselves to moral instruction. i think sometimes when people complain about the “romanticization” of abuse, what they're actually objecting to isn't necessarily the way abuse is being represented, but the fact that the representation doesn't provide them with constant moral reassurance. like, there is a difference between “this story frames abuse as desirable or inherently romantic” and “this story depicts abuse in an erotic/ambiguous/complicated way and doesn't repeatedly tell me that abuse is bad, therefore the depiction itself is irresponsible.”

Nothing anyone can ever say will make me believe that it's remotely okay to call out and harass (sometimes for YEARS) people over the fiction they create or enjoy. I don't care how old I get and how many bills I have to pay, nothing can make me stop caring about this, bye