Rahimus_ t1_iu7znco wrote on October 29, 2022 at 7:08 AM

Reply to comment by enJ0eable in To my Romance readers: Is explicit s.a. to be expected at this point or am I just incredibly unlucky? by enJ0eable

>Fiction is written by real people. Who can take accountability.

Accountability for what? The sexual assault that didn’t happen? The age gap that doesn’t exist? You haven’t explained what’s inherently wrong with writing a story that contains SA. I don’t see a problem. A story is something the author imagined, and wants to share with the world. If that story includes rape, then so be it.

This isn’t about a disconnect between the art and the author, it’s about a disconnect between a fictional character doing something evil, and the author or the art being evil.

PiCoolerThanPie t1_iu80zrs wrote on October 29, 2022 at 7:28 AM

I personally like stories w/ really messed up stuff like SA, but I do think there can be a moral line in regards to the portrayal of such scenes. Portraying SA etc as hot or desirable is not good.

Rahimus_ t1_iu84jk3 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 8:21 AM

Can you clarify what you mean? I would say that if a story/chapter is written through the perspective of a character committing SA, it makes sense it would be described as hot/desirable. That’s just a consequence of the lens through which the story is told.