Honestly I'm happy Viv hired the best person for the job instead of caving to bad PR optics. I also think that shilling for the idea that your boss should be allowed to fire you based on healthy sexual expression is, yknow, not good.
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Eh...the fandom has not been great on this either, especially a couple years ago. It's gotten better since the series came out but there's still a lot of bullshit
I’m sorry you’ve had such a bad experience, I didn’t mean to undermine that, I’m definitely not into a social media interactions. But the haz discord servers have been supportive so far that’s where I’m coming from
"It says here on your sexual condemnation qualifier that you and your spouse have performed consensual 'puppy play'? Erm. Pretty close to beastiality. Have you ever considered that there are people who actually fuck animals. Not only are you fired I've called the authorities & they're on their way"
This is what I’ve been fucking saying since day one like hmmm I wonder why certain scenes were so well done it’s almost as if an expert worked on them
Are people crying about this again???
Literally this is private life. People go way, way too far with what they perceive as "representing the company" and unless we're going back to signing morality clauses for work, it's not an employer's business
It is rather concerning how much the criticism pulls from conservative bullshit.
From complaining about "porn addiction ruining fandom," to slut-shaming by swearing that people with a kink could NEVER write well, to demanding that all depictions must be a "good moral guide" to society.
I remember seeing the discourse around this a while ago and just being utterly dumbfounded that someone suggested that viv should have "screened" for hiring to make sure that whoever was hired was a sexual assault survivor like. Huh??? Totally legal and normal and appropriate questions that-
This hit me in the face like what imagine any other employer asking that and being thrown into shit so fast, but people thinking it's appropriate here... For an adult show.
Rape fetish this, rape fetish that. No one ever wants to talk about how Raph is an incredibly talented storyboard artist who excels particularly at tension and expression, both of which are important for those scenes, AND that he's comfortable depicting it. A lot of people aren't.
I'm not even going to get into the fact that rape fantasies are found in 30-60% of afab people in particular because I don't want to become a broken record but whether they hired Raph or not there was a nearly 50% chance it was going to be done by someone with the kink regardless lol
Yeah I was gonna say from what I’ve seen it’s a bare majority of all people regardless of gender, but the stat I was looking at May have been skewed high
Regardless it’s ridiculous that “muh rape kink” has become such a Discourse in general (not just wrt Ralph) because you can literally throw a rock in any crowd and have high odds of hitting someone who’s fantasized about being raped, raping, or both
This whole discourse is fucking tired and stupid and usually being screamed by people who are as far removed from SW/survivor/abuse advocacy/praxis/whatever as you can possibly get but YOU KNOW.
Anyway the kindest people I've ever met have been people who enjoy BDSM and dead dove but I regularly see antis telling people to kill themselves so idk get a fucking grip maybe
Honestly though! I’m still laughing about how in one channel we were all drooling over a noncon fic and simultaneously in another channel having a very adult conversation about teaching consent 😭
It's almost as if they're the ones that can't separate fiction from real life and it's rather distressing. Antis touch grass 2k25 challenge, level impossible.
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Are people crying about this again???
From complaining about "porn addiction ruining fandom," to slut-shaming by swearing that people with a kink could NEVER write well, to demanding that all depictions must be a "good moral guide" to society.
Or shut the fuck up <3