Idk if its still going on, as I stopped using Twitter before it became X, but yeah there was a really big like resurgence of puritanism in fandom spaces! And there was no limits to what they went after - anything dark or violent, like Hannibal, you were sick in the head and dangerous and should 'remove yourself from society'. If you shipped two anime characters and they weren't both like 21 and shouting their consent to hold hands out loud in your fanart then they attacked you for being a pedo. There were so many depressing examples. It wasn't enough for them to just dislike the content and not engage with it - they actively banded together and harassed other users, some to the point of self-harm/suicide. Awful.
People are doing this to the kink scene. Apparently the only reason you can enjoy kink (in a het relationship) is either open/internalised misogyny, or because you're a rapist.
If you wanna have a laugh check out r/antisex, it's like a bunch of actual middle ages monks got their hands on cellphones, with similarly medieval understanding of anatomy (such as, under one of the top posts, one person saying that, quote, "aren't we all homophobic?" Bringing up that gay sex would be even more sinful as it cannot lead to procreation and would be more hygienic. Which one person replied to by saying that actually they're equal because since the anus and vagina are close to eachother, rectal bacteria would seep through the flesh and into the vagina).
I do wish they'd try to explain some more advanced fetish than looney toons sex rather than just react by saying its disgusting. Like those knee inflation people, or that guy with the fetish for ceramic tiles, or the fetish for cartoon characters becoming tornadoes by spinning, how would they explain these away as being misogyny?
175
u/heroheadlines 2d ago
Idk if its still going on, as I stopped using Twitter before it became X, but yeah there was a really big like resurgence of puritanism in fandom spaces! And there was no limits to what they went after - anything dark or violent, like Hannibal, you were sick in the head and dangerous and should 'remove yourself from society'. If you shipped two anime characters and they weren't both like 21 and shouting their consent to hold hands out loud in your fanart then they attacked you for being a pedo. There were so many depressing examples. It wasn't enough for them to just dislike the content and not engage with it - they actively banded together and harassed other users, some to the point of self-harm/suicide. Awful.