Idk if you guys are aware of it, but recently a Thai BL actor, Justin Moir, who's also a teenager, was caught reposting homophobic, pro-Trump,pro- MAGA and sexist tiktoks that even promoted femicide. Some of those reposts were from as recently as January this year. Obviously, he got a lot of backlash and was eventually removed from his company. Bu......
Rape, pedophilia, racism, and slavery are all bad and REAL scenarios. You can't say one is real while the other is "just fiction" simply because you have a rape fetish. These topics can be depicted with nuance in a mature way, but romanticizing such heavy subjects isn't alright, even if they're fictional.
If you hate one but enjoy the other, then you're a hypocrite.
I'm glad the artist was mature enough to cancel this after the deserved backlash it received, but this also made me realise just how normalized rape has become in fiction. I know we're probably never going to see the day Korean authors stop producing rapeslops because the audience has become so desensitized to it, and there are far too many rape fetishizers. And the worst fact is some of these authors don't even realise that it's rape they think it's toxic love and dark romance. Just like how this author wasn't even aware that they're romanticizing slavery
What's your take on author Jaxx apologizing and cancelling their work after getting called out for romanticizing slavery in their story? How do you feel about the backlash? Was it deserved? Or would you still say the readers just couldn't separate fiction from reality, like you do with romanticized rape? I dare you to say the same thing here. I'm ......