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/!\ Opinion Ahead /!\
These past days I've tried to get down with the RP RPG and keep my yap shut, but I just can't. I'm too opinionated for that, okay. I think Real People Fic, when written without explicit permission, is disrespectful and a violation of other people's privacy.
Legal issues and squick factor aside, this is what it boils down to for me: I know I would be utterly mortified and feel violated if I ever found out that someone wrote a fic like that about me. I would feel a great deal of resentment towards that writer. If I don't want something done to me, I can't be okay with it being done to others. Simple as that.
I’m not trying to tell anyone what to do (pfft! As if!), I’m expressing my opinion. People say they have the right to write RPF; I have the right to not read it. And to hate it. And to post about how much it bothers me. Just as much as you have the right to defend it and post about how much fun it is.
...she said and alienated half the people on her friends list.
Ah well, at least I’ve waited until after no-kerfuffle day.
Legal issues and squick factor aside, this is what it boils down to for me: I know I would be utterly mortified and feel violated if I ever found out that someone wrote a fic like that about me. I would feel a great deal of resentment towards that writer. If I don't want something done to me, I can't be okay with it being done to others. Simple as that.
I’m not trying to tell anyone what to do (pfft! As if!), I’m expressing my opinion. People say they have the right to write RPF; I have the right to not read it. And to hate it. And to post about how much it bothers me. Just as much as you have the right to defend it and post about how much fun it is.
...she said and alienated half the people on her friends list.
Ah well, at least I’ve waited until after no-kerfuffle day.
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But I also think you nailed the problem of some of the recent kerfuffles.
When you or I or many other people say "I don't like RPF or slash or man/boy love or fics containing jelly beans" or "It bothers/squicks me" or even (God forbid) "I think it's wrong" - well, we're not telling people "Stop it or you'll go blind!" or "The Wrath of God will smite you!" or anything like that.
We're just expressing an opinion and/or making a statement about where our own moral boundaries lie. And of course others are entitled to disagree.
I tend to miss most of the kerfuffles. They just seem to happen when I'm looking the other way. But going back and following the threads in retropsect (as it were), I think the main problem usually lies with people latching on to one part of someone's statement and extrapolating it beyond what they were actually saying.
Then someone gets frustrated and launches into a heated tirade about their own point of view - with accompanying personal insults to their opposition.
Then each side gets their "You Go Girl!" team going (usually in their own private journal)
And voila! Major kerfuffle!
Gotta admit, I find the phenomenon rather interesting when looked at in that abstract kind of way.
So Happy The-Day-After-No-Kerfuffle-Day Day!
:-)
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