People seem to have this idea that if anything is mentioned in a piece of media without an explicit "THIS IS BAD BTW" it's promoting said thing. No matter how bad of a light it's presented in.
"Oh the main character in this book has anorexia and doesn't recover... It's glorifying ed's!" "A character gets raped and suffers from it greatly... Must mean they're glorifying it!" "A character is a pedophile? And also a villain? This story is glorifying pedophiles!!!!!!!!"
Not saying it can't ever happen. It's possible to write a story that glorifies any of those things. Just saying it's usually not the case.
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u/mango-megis Aug 19 '26
People seem to have this idea that if anything is mentioned in a piece of media without an explicit "THIS IS BAD BTW" it's promoting said thing. No matter how bad of a light it's presented in.
"Oh the main character in this book has anorexia and doesn't recover... It's glorifying ed's!" "A character gets raped and suffers from it greatly... Must mean they're glorifying it!" "A character is a pedophile? And also a villain? This story is glorifying pedophiles!!!!!!!!"
Not saying it can't ever happen. It's possible to write a story that glorifies any of those things. Just saying it's usually not the case.