Lemme spill some fucking tea here

alia-andreth:

What purity culture gets right:

1. Media and fan culture can have troubling implications.

What purity culture gets wrong:

1. Engaging with problematic content can be therapeutic and/or educational.
2. Good art can be interpreted a number of ways; there is no ‘right’ interpretation. Only the most didactic media has one clear interpretation and media like that is usually insufferably boring.
3. Good art is never pure, and always has some amount of problematic content. 
4. What’s depicted in media is not equal to what happens in reality (with the exception if real people are being harmed, eg certain kinds of p*rnography).
5. People can enjoy content while being aware of its problematic aspects.  They are not bad people for doing so.
6. You are not morally superior to anyone else for preferring one character, ship, or piece of media over another.
7. Attempting to purge problematic content is an authoritarian concept in and of itself.  This website should know that, considering how heavily LGBT+ its users are, and that, within living memory, openly LGBT+ content was banned in all mainstream media, because it was deemed socially unacceptable.
8. Attacking people who are doing nothing to harm you is bullying.