Dear Author

cassandrashipsit:

Criticism is not censorship.

Fiction is how many people learn. It’s how people grow and explore new ideas, and it has been since the first fables were told around fires by our evolutionary antecedents. Pretending that the problem is people who “can’t tell fantasy from reality” is a pathetic cop-out. Fiction is always a mirror of reality, because nothing is written without the context of an author’s lived experiences and social and cultural indoctrination and bias. 

Marginalized people wanting you to quit writing gross and hurtful shit about us is not the same as censorship. Actual censorship requires power, which we do not have. That’s the whole fucking point! 

Members of the kink community telling you that you don’t know shit and are writing dangerous nonsense is not an attack, it’s simply a fact. People telling you to put in the time on researching subjects you don’t have experience with aren’t bullying you, they’re trying to help you improve.

Shitty writing is not a protected form of speech. You are not special or subversive, you are not revolutionary. All you’re doing is contributing to the status quo, which is already shitty. You’re reinforcing stereotypes that get people killed, all while refusing to take any kind of responsibility for your own actions because it’s “just a story.” 

You aren’t a victim, you’re just a bad writer with entitlement issues.