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Defamation and social media

Jun 26, 2020

Given the current climate in many fandoms, I thought I would provide a little education on the subject of callouts, abusive and insulting language, and name calling. First of all, many people are throwing around terms without clearly understanding their meaning. I will address here the current favorite phrase in many fandoms: ‘you’re a pedophile’. Writing about fictional underage characters, human or otherwise, is not pedophilia. When you call someone that because of a story they’ve written (or art they’ve created), you are watering down a term that should only be used about someone who has committed the most egregious crimes against actual children. If you don’t believe that it’s all right for an adult to write fiction about underage characters engaging in sexual acts, then you should probably be attacking authors such as Stephen King, Judy Blume, Norma Klein, Madeleine L’Engle, David Levithan, Danielle Evans, Megan Abbot, Lindsay Hunter, and V.C. Andrews just to name a few. These