why shouldn't this be taken seriously? what makes this merely a "fun" premise for entertainment? what is enjoyable and entertaining about this?
nevermind that most other stories featuring slavery use the plausible deniability of incoherent and vague fantasy settings nominally disconnected from real life history while this story explicitly chose a contentious time period and setting... (still worth scrutiny and criticism, but the intensity is different)
here's yet another example of someone bringing up other sensitive topics often treated poorly and exploited for smut in BL(romance in general if we're being honest) and acting like nobody criticizes those.
PEOPLE DO!
and get dogpiled, harassed, and insulted for it.
there's just not the same critical mass of people scrutinizing one thing (including outside/nonfandom interest/attention) for those works to also be subject to pressure like this one was.
there's relatively more awareness about historical topics and racism compared to the nuances of depictions of abuse and rape, so it's somewhat easier for more people to get on board with recognizing the problem, and speaking against it.
there's no need to pick and choose and act like no one ever speaks up about the prevalence of rape/incest/pedophilia/racism against nonBlack people/colorism/orientalism/stereotypes in general.
PEOPLE DO!
accusing people of hypocrisy on this topic just shows when someone doesn't listen to or engage with those criticisms or pushback for other stories at all, because it's certainly out there.
deadass like LMFAOOOO bro it's a work of FICTION. FICTIONAL. if they so moralistic then why they ain't saying shit about ML getting r4ped or 4bused?
grab a book or something and read, slavery was something that existed years ago, America is a country built by immigrants and slavers for god's sake, is slavery wrong? of course, but it's part of our history as humanity and gladly it's slowly fading away although it still exist somewhere, so STFU and go read r4pe if you don't like this type of FICTIONAL work