Anonymous asked: Was the post you made about people wrongly classifying things as pedophilic about anything in particular?
Honestly, there’s been a bunch of stuff it applies to: Call Me By Your Name is the most recent, and while I haven’t seen it and don’t intend to (it looks like exactly the kind of Sad Gay Story Written By A Straight Dude that I intensely dislike), the fact that it contains basically the same age gap as happily exists between Cher and Josh in Clueless, for instance, makes my Queer Double Standards And Hypocrisy In Media Analysis Spider Sense tingle. The one that really incensed me, though, was back in the S1 days of the Voltron: Legendary Defender fandom: even at a point in time when none of the characters had a known age in canon, people were constantly screaming about how shipping Shiro with Keith was paedophilia, even in fics where the characters were both stated to be 18+, because Age Gap… even though they didn’t… have… established ages… in canon… I even remember one post arguing that shipping Sheith was, quote, “highkey abusive” because they act like brothers in the show and I was internally screaming for nine thousand years in the aftermath.
I love fandom so much, except for when it makes me want to set myself on fire.
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