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Detective Conan's Darkside, Part 2

2014-10-07T03:44:05Z

Nothing makes one question their allegiance to a fandom more than stumbling across childporn, then pointing out that it's childporn, then getting a some angry responses from its readers who beg the author for more childporn.

Good. That way, the owners of this website won't get tossed in jail for hosting childporn, and the rest of us get to continue enjoying posting fanfiction here.

See, there's a lot more going on here than me not liking childporn. In many countries, it's illegal. It'll get a website's servers seized and the owners of the website hunted down and prosecuted. I don't want that to happen to this website. That's why I reported it.

I also find depicting childrape as romantic disgusting, and the fact that so many people are clamoring for more childrape makes my stomach churn. You guys really need to learn about what rape is and what consent is. That's why I left a strongly worded review. Hopefully you'll think about the implications of such scenarios in the future, instead of thinking with your libido only.

dreamingfifi, in her blog that no one reads.

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What's Wrong With Harem Stories

2014-02-21T18:40:31Z

There's a lot of critiques of the genre that focus on the creepy stuff that the harem genre in Manga and Anime (one man, a lotta women) as it relates to what's happening to the girls and/or women in such series, but there's something else about it that bothers me, that I don't think gets enough attention. Oddly enough, it's a flaw that the reverse harem genre (one woman, a lotta men) lacks.

One of the sexist stereotypes of men is that they want sex all the time. Therefore, they can't be raped by women. Only women can be the victim of sexual violence. If a woman rapes a man, then he should go along with it because he secretly wants it.

In harem stories, there always is a bunch of pretty girls who force themselves on an unwilling male protagonist. The idea is that if he isn't pursuing them, then he isn't victimizing them. But, it's actually just been reversed. The protagonist is the one being assaulted - often graphically, with a ton of violence. And we're supposed to find it funny, because a man couldn't possibly be sexually assaulted, and he secretly wants this, right?

A prime example in the plight of the protagonist of The World Only a God Knows, Keima Katsuragi. He's pretty high up in the Asexuality/Aromantic scale. He also is intensely uncomfortable with physical contact. Even in the dating sims he plays, he doesn't really think of them as romances, and he isn't getting sexual gratification out of them, he sees them more like strategy games. In the series, a demon crashes to earth and tricks him into making a contract to help her catch runaway evil spirits. The catch is that they're in young women, and to get the evil spirit out, he has to seduce them. If he breaks the contract, he will die horribly. Let's think about what this actually means: He's a sex slave, forced to prostitute himself under pain of death. As creepy and gross as what he's doing to all of these women is, it's no where near as horrifying as what's being done to him. We, the readers, are expected to think: He's being sexually assaulted, LOL. Now he's being beaten up for being sexually assaulted, LOL. It also was this series that triggered this rant.

There a lot of other creepy things about this genre, but I just wanted to point out this particular one, because people seem to forget that sexual violence isn't restricted by gender.

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Detective Conan's Darkside

2014-01-29T17:53:30Z

The Detective Conan story is dark. It's full of danger, intrigue, and a constant onslaught of death. And, we've got teenagers turning into children in the canon. As far as fanfiction goes, this is a recipe for some really, really, really REALLY creepy stuff, often unintentional.

( Trigger Warning )

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