[physical-manifestation-of-spite]

I feel like some people feel pressured to write disclaimers immediately after sharing their harmless opinion of a fictional character on the internet just in case someone misinterpret what they’re saying and twist it in a way to get them cancelled. I just watched someone hastily make a disclaimer that while they like the idea of Dracula and Lisa (his wife) having a loving relationship, they don’t feel that Dracula burning the entire world down after his wife died was ethically sound. As if this was necessary. As if this needed to be mentioned.

It breaks my heart.

People are so nervous to share their opinions because the attitude of cancel culture is so aggressive that some people will look for literally ANYTHING to get angry about. I’ve seen people nervous to admit that they find Reigen Arataka smoking a cigarette as sexy because cigarettes are bad. I’ve seen people get nervous to admit that they find some villains attractive when that’s literally what they’re designed to do. 

This attitude of finding everything problematic needs to be squashed. It’s killing the excitement in a fandom. It’s stifling creativity because people are too busy tripping over themselves to cover their asses over an opinion that is problematic only to a tiny amount of people who do not seem to understand the difference between fictional and real morality, which is obviously why they’ll prove their moral superiority by harming a real person over a fictional problem. 

This needs to die. It should have died years ago.

[thesadchicken]

Thank you so much for making this post, OP, and if I may add: 

I feel like this is also the reason why people are afraid to be positive about anything. It’s why there’s so much negativity in fandom. People are scared to say good things about the show they like in case someone replies with “your fave is Problematic”. So instead they just make post after post about how Awful and Horrible and Disgusting their favorite show is and it’s so, so sad.

You’re allowed to like stuff. There is a difference between fiction and reality. You’re not a bad person.