Can we all finally agree on this? Stop hating “problematic" BL and compare it to Jaxx drama
Can we all finally agree on this? Stop hating and dogpiling on “problematic BL” like the ones with heavy themes like abuse, non‑con, toxic dynamics and all that and especially stop dragging it into Jaxx drama like they’re the exact same thing. Non con and racism is not the same. Like stop with the “why are you against Jaxx but okay with noncon BL?” because once again it’s not the same thing at all!
Dark themes are just dark themes. Graphic violence, gore, murder, abuse, even depictions of sexual assault whether you encounter them in BL, in games like GTA, in massive hit shows like Game of Thrones, anywhere at all reading, watching or enjoying these things once again does not mean you support or condone them in real life. They do not actively target real people, and they do not cause tangible, direct harm to anyone living and breathing. Fictionis fiction. Separate it from reality. At the end of the day, it is literally just entertainment.
If we are seriously going to run with you all logic that “if you write rpe / read rpe stuff / enjoy it that means you’re a bad person” then let’s be 100% consistent about it, shall we? Should we cancel, ban and erase every single story ever written that features an evil serial killer? Should we never again be allowed to have main characters who are absolutely terrible human beings, who do unspeakable things, who get away with every single crime and come out on top every time without ever facing a single consequence? Of course we wouldn’t because we all understand perfectly fine in those cases, it’s just a story. It’s just entertainment.
Like there is absolutely absurd double standard here what exactly makes murder so much more “acceptable” to depict and enjoy than noncon is? Take Alice in Borderland for example like Banda is canonically a serial killer even in real world not just in borderland. He is objectively, far more evil than Niragi And yet people will come for Niragi fans throat ten times harder and act like his fandon is the worst thing to ever exist because on top of being a murderer, he is also written as a rpst but Banda is not a rpist, just a murderer. I’m not even a Niragi fan myself, I'm a Chishiya and I just rewatch a day ago and now I'm a Banda fan too but I'm always gonna be depending Niragi fandom because Niragi is nowhere near as purely evil or dangerous as Banda is, yet no one clocking Banda fans. Or if look at AO3 and fanfics in general, why is everyone swarming in packs to hate, report and scream about any fic that contains non‑con but total radio silence when the if there ks fics romanticizing, making the fictional murderers charming, and fanfics where they face absolutely zero consequences for killing people, the exact thing everyone claims they demand for consequences that rpist characters should get. The hypocrisy is actually painful to watch.
Nobody wakes up wanting to kill people just because they enjoy violent games and people get that perfectly fine, and defend it when governments try to ban this stuff, that “it’s just fiction, it doesn’t make us violent.” So why do people automatically side‑eye, call out, and assume anyone who reads or writes non‑con content actually supports or wants that in real life? It’s the exact same logic. We all understand fictional violence doesn’t equal real‑life violence so why hold sexual dark themes to this totally different, impossible standard. It's just entertainment thats all
However there is a huge non negotiable difference between between all of that and RACISM (HOMOPHOBIA TOO, especially that garbage shit where writers deliberately “turn” canon gay or lesbian characters into straight just to “fix” them). These cannot be fiction is fiction shit. These are use to encourage discrimination on marginalized people. This stuff actively hurt real people. Because once again It fuels real‑life discrimination, real prejudice, real violence and real harm, and it actively reinforces the unfair structures that were built to hold people down. That is the line. Discriminatory propaganda.
And while we’re here can we also finally agree to stop generalizing bl genre as whole as nothing but problematic garbage, and acting like abuse and toxicity is literally all BL is ever about, just so you have a convenient excuse to hate the whole category outright? Because let’s be brutally honest what you all doing that is just homophobia. You never see anyone treat shoujo, josei, or any kind of straight‑centred romance or drama this way. Nobody looks at dark romance and goes “oh so ALL straight romance is just abuse and toxicity right?”. Its just once again scream homophobia. You also certainly don’t see women who read and enjoy dark romance getting harassed and hated on 24/7 to the same degree bl fans get for what for consuming the exact same kind of story. Gay people, queer people, BL fans we deserve fuck up stories like straight do. We normalize gay people in media when we don't treat them like we need to have pure cuteyyy rep all the time.
Normalizing gay people in media means we stop treating us like we always need to be pure, sweet, perfect little “cute” representation all the time. Gay characters need to be messy, complicated, flawed, even terrible characters just like straight does. We don’t always have to be soft, wholesome, or “good role models” or characters need to have consequences deserve to exist in stories. Letting us be dark, weird, evil, or anything else is how we actually become normal, not just wanting pure gay rep. You understand right the balance.
