So hey, when proshippers say that anti arguments about the evils of darkfic and how Enjoying Morally Bad Fiction Is As Morally Wrong As Whatever Crimes It Depicts is tantamount to Evangelical Puritanism in a gay hat? THIS IS WHY. I’ve seen so many antis claim angrily that it’s a straw argument to call theirs even remotely relates to Evangelical logic, but please, by all means explain to me how the Evangelical belief that thought and action are morally the same is different to the idea that reading or writing something bad is as bad as doing it.
I guarantee that a solid 95% of antis have a trope or kink that they like but which they keep on the DL because they know that certain *other* antis would be too hardline about That One Thing, and maybe they feel a little ashamed about it but insist to themselves that it’s still OK because *they* know why they enjoy it, and it’s not because they’re morally fucked up like those proshippers, no: they’re the Special Exception who knows how to like it in exactly the right context to make it fine, which is why they get extra angry when they see proshippers defending that particular thing above all else -
and this is so achingly like every Evangelical who protests at the abortion clinic, but secretly takes their own teenage daughter there when she needs it, because they know THEIR child is different, not like all those other irresponsible sluts in the waiting room, which is why they’ll go back to protesting tomorrow - this is, I hasten to add for anyone who thinks this is a made-up person, a maddeningly real and common phenomenon in the experiences of abortion clinic workers - and I just [stares into the middle distance]