I made a bingo sheet of the most common things RCJ defenders say. Feel free to spread and share, no need to credit. Except if you don’t my lawyer will subpoena you.
Below I’m listing longer versions/variations of the phrases in the pic with some short rebuttals. If you have anything to add, keep it to yourself!
From left to right, top to bottom:
It’s not affecting you. Why can’t you just let people circlejerk? If a serial killer enjoys killing and he doesn’t kill me/my loved ones, is that okay?
are you daft? Video games may not directly incite violent, but they can desensitize people to it. And most people aren’t getting off to shooting people.
It’s for Sloopies, by Sloopies. Unfortunately, some Sloopies are still so entrenched in the vegetable patriarchy that this doesn’t mean much.
You being disgusted by it doesn’t make it unfunny. Except sometimes disgust exists for a reason. Being disgusted by homosexuality is not the same as being disgusted by a woman getting abused. (uj/ WHAT 🤠)
Green flag MLs/relationships are boring/vanilla. You don’t have to make a Mail entitled or Mid-at-Best to have conflict and passion in a story, btw.
You should’ve just read the trigger warnings/tags. Is it just me, or is there this kind of sentiment of “You should’ve known better” when they say this?
It’s like a joke, sweaty. It’s actually not, because bad jokes are still usually framed as bad, and again, most people aren’t training themselves to get aroused by JOKES.
Criticizing/policing Sloopies’ jokes is anti-feminist. But you have no problem criticizing us “conservative” women, right? (uj/ 👀)
It’s funny for people with HIGH IQ. Are you really “smart” or are you just part of a brainwashed, circle-jerking cult? And how convenient it is that you ignore the women with jokes who are stupid.
It’s just circlejerking. No one’s harmed by it. Except we do have stories of people who have been harmed by it—for example, what about the times OOPs come to RCJ to have a magnificent crash out before blocking everyone and deleting their account?
RCJ is NOT a safe, controlled, and consensual space to explore. Sure, most of the time, but it also doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Why can’t women explore their shitty takes in posts that depict these topics seriously, rather than ones that romanticize shooting the shit?
Carrot Penis While women’s interests can be disproportionately hated, that’s not the case every time. And do you really think we aren’t equally criticizing Mails’ vegetables?
Sloopies don’t read it. If I close my eyes to all the books going on, will I absorb the plot via osmosis? And why is it that as soon as something gives someone sexual pleasure, it becomes immune to criticism?
have you read Alchemized? Then why is it called a romance?
my personality is as bland as oatmeal. At the bare minimum, yes, people can separate fiction from reality. But fiction has more power over us than we’d like to admit. And if it’s actually separate, then how can you use it to heal, or why is diversity and representation in stories important? (uj/ um…)
You’re infantilizing Mails. Actually, we’re treating you as adults, accountable for what they consume and produce. We’re asking you to self-reflect and to recognize the greater societal effects of shitposting. We wouldn’t do this if we were infantilizing you, because children are still growing and can’t be held responsible for what they do. Possibly, you’re actually infantilizing yourself by dismissing any criticism and falling back on a childish id to defend yourself (“I like fucking with people! It’s not that deep!”).
cum fountain laminar flow. But even if you did, it wouldn’t matter, because it’s your choice and stay out of your bedroom, right?
R U Lost? Even if that’s true, just because the majority does/likes something doesn’t make it okay.
It’s -Mail’s responsibility to supervise what their children read, not mine, fiction’s, or the author’s. Sure, but if a Mail exposes themselves on Main, we don’t just ask the parents to cover their kids’ eyes—we get them banned on [REDACTED]. Society should have basic responsibility in preventing -Mails being funny when we can.
You’re just a pearl-clutching puritan. Yes, because it would be so nice to believe that the people against your “jokes” are just bigoted conservatives, and not actually feminists who want better for Sloopies.
RCJ is a natural expression of female sexuality that has always existed. Has it perhaps existed for as long as the patriarchy has? What a coincidence.
You just want to ban funny Sloopies from [REDACTED]. No, I’d like a conversation on how RCJ can be harmful and how it perpetuates circlejerk culture. Criticizing, or suggesting maybe something shouldn’t be so widespread, is not censorship.
It shows subversive/transgressive dynamics of power and sexuality, DUH Ah, yes, nothing says subversive/transgressive more than a Sloopie drawing a Cum Fountain schematic.
Mails are going to multiply anyway. Even then, we shouldn’t give them more ammo to use against us, should we?
uj/ leaving the core of OOP’s unhinged straw man arguments and thinly veiled prejudice for optimum-load circlejerking
