nonbinarypastels:

a person’s interests aren’t automatically an indicator of their personality, character, or behavior towards others.

example: someone who likes gore-filled horror movies is not automatically a bad person who will treat everyone they meet like crap. likewise, a person who likes G-rated children’s cartoons is not automatically a good person filled to the brim with kindness and good will towards others.

someone who likes horror and other ‘dark’ entertainment could be a decent person who is always kind to other people and respectful to them.

someone who likes cartoons and other ‘light’ entertainment could be a complete and utter asshole who treats other people like trash.

the “wholesomeness” of a person’s interests does not have any baring on what they’re like as a person or how they are to other people. there are plenty of people out there with perfectly “pure” interests who are absolutely horrid human beings and there are plenty of people out there with “darker” interests who are nothing but kind to others.

don’t make assumptions about what people are like because of something as trivial as the kind of movies or music or books or shows they enjoy. don’t dismiss people because of their tastes in those things. a person’s taste in entertainment is such a small, inconsequential thing. to judge their entire worth as a human being based on that is not only naive, it’s also incredibly ignorant. there are better ways to judge someone—judge them based on how they treat others, how kind they are, how generous and caring, how willing they are to listen and question the world and think. those are all things that are so much more important than whether they’d rather read the very hungry caterpillar or silence of the lambs. those are things that actually matter in life, a person’s taste in entertainment doesn’t.