Policing and woobiefication redux

[ljwrites]

After my prior post on the subject, here's yet another commonality between the fandom policers and the woobiefiers/apologists: They think their personal emotional reactions define the morality of a thing.

Again, they go to opposites from the same premise. The fandom police think that since they react with disgust, shame, fear etc. to a fictional depiction, it must be objectively harmful and therefore immoral to create. The apologists think that since they react with positivity and excitement to a fictional depiction, it must necessarily be harmless and objectively moral. The emotional and intellectual dishonesty is staggering in either case, which isn't surprising because they both start with the same dishonest and flawed premise.

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[used_songs]

I've been reading through your post type: rant tag and then following all of your links back to sources and reading those. I knew a lot of this stuff was happening I guess on tumblr but I don't really read text posts over there or interact with people, so I didn't realize how widespread some of this behavior is. I stepped away from 99% of fandom meta and discussion when I faded from LJ, so I really thought some of this stuff was outlier behavior. I should've known better.

Anyway, your tag has been very educational.

[minoanmiss]

Word.

[lb_lee]

YKINMYK still applies for me!

--Miranda