First the loli thing which is the most obvious one , i also read someone mention how there are also twitter people bullying others over so called "promoting toxic relationships" cause they wrote fanfics shipping the main character with the villain . How are things getting so bad that fiction is so treated like reality now?
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In a way I understand what you say, but I also think (sadly) what people, especially what children see coming from all avenues around them does influence what they think.
When you look at SJW youth now, many of them were raised on for example gay fanfiction so much they have a warped view on sexuality and homosexual people as well.
I'm not saying it's 100% successful and all, but people who are easy to manipulate do pick up things from media. Like when minority young girls try to emulate whatever some slutty female rapper does.
You can say fictional media is different, though many real life celebs are putting on a character. Like do you think Beyonce is not some fake plastic facade?
sorry but i dont agree. Fiction is fiction and it should not be censored. Differentiate fiction from reality. This is the same argument as "violent video games causes real life violence" (also real life celebs are no where near the same as fiction wth)
I did not say it should be censored.
But do you think children raised in a certain culture or religion are not more likely to believe those things? New generations of children don't just believe in Santa because genetically they will, but because they get made to believe in him. Not saying that's automatically bad or harmful or should go.
Plus, what about the people who are total mall ninja types? The story is always that they know how to shoot shit in CoD or whatever, so they feel like invincible badasses.
Or think of the girls who are "all totally lesbians" suddenly once the topic becomes trendy, same with genderfucked weirdness. (I'm about to read the Abigail Schrier book.) They didn't just invent that crap. Also, why are there more of said kids in the communities where it's a constant, everyday topic?
Why else would the left target the media and fill everything you hear or see with muh diversity?
Not his hugest fan, but Crowder back in the day made a video showing how the things some invincible action heroine did in her movie are physically ineffective and useless. Why? Because people were believing that hitting someone with a high heel shoe was actually good and useful in a serious fight.
I'm not trying to say we should ban Dragon Ball because kids jumped out a window believing they can fly. Bullshit.
But to claim media has ZERO influence is just untrue.
Another thing, specifically with loli is, I'm not sure how safe it is to form a community of people who have a proclivity for that. Again, it's not as bad as actual child porn. But internet communities formed around loli are extremely suspicious to me.
Again this is the same sort of argument as "fictional violence causes violence in real life" And you can dislike some fictions, but it still has the right to exist.
anything that they cry is "not diverse enough" or "promoting fascism" or stupid things like that, and then their own bad writing and also their attacking and cancelling of any alternatives (the problem isn't the existence of fiction it is the cancelling and attacking of alternatives and/or anything that upsets their sensibilities) and artists and writers that think or write differently from them which they attack and cancel with the typical accusations of "racist, sexist, fascist etc", all this comes from the problem of not differentiating fiction from reality.
Also on the topic of loli i'll just say this, there are studies done that prove it does not effect real life (and there has been a big reoccurring pattern of people who has attacked it but then turned out to be the actual pedo) . The point is learn to differentiate fiction from reality.
I think the issue, then, is the fact that so many people growing up have parents ranging everywhere from dismissive to overly permissive to nonexistent. They aren't actually doing the job of helping their kids separate fact from fantasy, and so those kids end up growing into adults with these weird ideas of how the world works.
Hell, one example is that you can see it with what younger women are saying about the younger men they're sleeping with; the only experience those men with sex is porn and so they end up trying to do things that they see in pornography because they didn't have anyone to tell them how fake, overproduced, and shot it all is. Just illustrative of one of the more visible ways we're seeing this play out,
Hell, I for one got absolutely 0 sex-ed type things from my own dismissive, disinterested parent. I'm just thankful I started with wikipedia before porn otherwise the latter would've been my sole source for "information." And this is just one area in which parents aren't doing their job insofar as helping their kids know fiction and reality are different.
Agreed, but people have forgotten what the word "meme" was originally meant to mean. It means that ideas can spread, and mutate, just like genes. An example that Bulbasaurus is getting at, I think, isn't so much "violent video games encourage violence" so much as, say, the Valley Girl phenomenon of the 1980s. Valley Girl speak spread because of one fucking song by that Zappa kid, and it was originally meant to make fun of california airheads who actually did say crap like "like" every other word and "gag me with a spoon". That song hit, and suddenly every dumb teenager was talking like that, and then it spread, like an infection from there. (Oh, and the television show Square Pegs helped with that, too.)
I remember Sesame Street coming under fire because of its "new" way of teaching kids - with short, fast segments that jumped around from topic to topic, and critics claimed that this would have a TERRIBLE effect on the first generation of kids subjected it (that would be Generation X), including shortened attention spans ... two generations later, and now you see shows that are patterned after Sesame Street ....
And as for people losing their distinction between reality and fiction? Yes, they're the same people who automatically take metaphor literally, and turn fan fiction characters into pagan gods.
Enjoy your tranny children on hormone blockers.