like i'm sorry i just cannot with this "think of the children" energy. maybe be aware of what your kids are reading and if things slip through because you can't be everywhere all the time maybe have a conversation with them about it? like?? be a fucking parent???
so a book featuring 18 year olds in a college setting is getting review bombed and called "grooming" because it's marketed as ya while having an explicit scene...but uh, ya includes 18 year olds, who can have explicit scenes???
take issue with ya being ages like 12-18 because that covers a lot of *very* different experiences, not a book about 18 year olds having content suitable for 18 year olds being marketed in a category that as it stands includes 18 year olds.
instagram is out to get me because i'm still seeing this ridiculous anti-sex christian "clean" and "safe" book content. why have the "not interested" button if you're gonna keep showing it to me!!!!!!!!!
ah look at that, a post about "clean" and "safe" books came across my feed from a christian bigot who openly says they will never promote unclean harmful things like sex, swearing, and queerness. at least some people just come out and say it so they can be blocked.
wish instagram would stop showing me "hygiene girlie" content because it rarely has anything to do with being clean. just a whole lot of nonsense designed to make others feel inadequate.
two things can be true at the same time: it is increasingly important to educate people, especially young girls, and encourage them to have a healthy relationship with their body and food AND mass scrutiny and talk of an individual woman's body is harmful, and not just to her.
not wanting people to pick apart, hyper-focus on, and blame individual women's bodies IS NOT THE SAME AS not wanting people to raise awareness for eating disorders or call out dangerous beauty standards in the time of ozempic and aughts-like thinness. strawmanning isn't helpful.
istg if i see one more think piece about why it's okay actually to dissect women's bodies, blame them for other people's eating disorders, and put them in a position of having to defend their body or disclose medical information
if i had a dollar for every time i watched a netflix show about the friendship between two women that ends with one of them getting cancer and dying, i'd have two dollars, which isn't a lot, but it's upsetting that it happened twice
istg if i see one more think piece about why it's okay actually to dissect women's bodies, blame them for other people's eating disorders, and put them in a position of having to defend their body or disclose medical information
someone complained that "words have definitions" then defined a "spicy book" as having "on page explicit romantic content" or "graphic romance scenes" ...baby the word you're looking for is sexual lmao
no one has to forgive, support (esp. $), or like someone after they do something shitty. but when you're demanding accountability, the very least you can do is acknowledge accountability when it happens, instead of insisting it's fake, poking holes in it, and moving the goalpost.
"when did accountability become bullying?" uh when you bully someone under the guise of accountability??? when your comments to/about them are no longer about the wrongdoing and are just mean and rude personal attacks that have nothing to do with what they did???
the person being bullied in the name of accountability publicly owned up to what they did, apologized, and is backing it with action. and people STILL aren't satisfied. proving they never gave a shit about accountability. they just want to see people fall and never get back up.