Grr. HP or not?
Nov. 19th, 2002 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beandelphikiEver eaten up most of a free afternoon watching a debate thread? Well, I have.
And this one pisses me off.
It's all about whether HP slash is pedophilia, whether it's "sick," and (a larger issue) whether it's okay to write and/or enjoy stories about children having sex.
Personally, I would never want someone judging my FANTASIES, thank you very much, and some sugar on top.
I am entirely against the sexual abuse of children (why wouldn't I be??) and I'm against child porn. But, in my OH-so-humble opinion (silence!), HP slash is just not child porn. Not any kind that is harmful, anyway. I think this guy should shut his self-righteous mouth.
...Now this doesn't have a LOT of relevance (no screaming throng, exactly, just underdogs, I guess), but for some reason, this makes me think of a question someone asked in a book I read:
"When you picture the Salem witch trials...and you see a witch being led to the gallows...who do you identify with, the prosecuted 'witch,' or the screaming throng?"
Me, I'm the witch.
How about you?
And this one pisses me off.
It's all about whether HP slash is pedophilia, whether it's "sick," and (a larger issue) whether it's okay to write and/or enjoy stories about children having sex.
Personally, I would never want someone judging my FANTASIES, thank you very much, and some sugar on top.
I am entirely against the sexual abuse of children (why wouldn't I be??) and I'm against child porn. But, in my OH-so-humble opinion (silence!), HP slash is just not child porn. Not any kind that is harmful, anyway. I think this guy should shut his self-righteous mouth.
...Now this doesn't have a LOT of relevance (no screaming throng, exactly, just underdogs, I guess), but for some reason, this makes me think of a question someone asked in a book I read:
"When you picture the Salem witch trials...and you see a witch being led to the gallows...who do you identify with, the prosecuted 'witch,' or the screaming throng?"
Me, I'm the witch.
How about you?
