smthing i can just never believe when ppl (mostly twitter users) complain about a girl character being made to look ‘mannish’ or 'masculine’ and talk about the death of femininity and every time i get excited and think 'oh okay cool did we get a butch character or-’ and its literally jusg a regular fucking woman like you would see at the grocery store. like jusyt a normal woman
i’m curious to know the ratio of writers to readers on ao3 so here’s a poll. when i say writer, i mean people who have published works on ao3, doesn’t matter if it’s once, or if it was ages ago, or if it’s a regular occurrence. when i say reader, i mean people who have never published a work on ao3. the reader vote still counts if you don’t have an account on ao3. if you’re a writer who is also an active reader, please still click on the “writer” option!
I feel a lot of people have moral systems that are completely detached from centering avoiding real harm to real people and are mostly based on completely arbitrary obsessions with symbolic and abstract “wrongs” and gut feelings, and then they join progressive politics and make an absolute fucking mess out of everything with their weird little moralist obsessions that actually don’t help improve anybody’s life or serve any purpose besides making a few people feel morally superior. This is why for example anti-kink politics went from having a pretense of being about protecting vulnerable women from abusive men to just being very blatantly “if you have ever done kink at all you’re ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew”.
I think if you cannot describe the mechanism through which an action brings harm to real people then you probably don’t have an actual argument as to why you consider the action in question to be immoral, and even if you can, you might find some people don’t agree with your definition of harm or find the evidence for the existence of this harm mechanism to be lacking. Secular morality is a lot more complex than a lot of angry social media users might want you to believe it is.
