>>778542>I brought up Martyrs specifically because it's just thinly veiled misogyny disguised as an art house film. There is as much artistic merit in a 30 minute montage of beating and raping a woman as there is in pornography of a cartoon child. If you enjoyed Martyrs, I believe you're a misogynist and if you masturbate to underaged hentai you're a pedophile. ngl you just sound like a chud. I've watched Martyrs twice and while the story is really stupid there are more layers to the film than just "horror porn go brrrr" and the audience's role in watching it with the expectation that it's horror porn out of morbid curiosity is literally part of its "message" so to speak.
I don't like the film, but you reducing a piece of art to "just violence against women" is just extremely reductive and chuddish.
>Being a pedophile is no crime, acting on it is. This is a clear distinction that pedophile apologists make. It doesn't make you any less of a pedophile.What's the purpose of the label if not for social ostracization? What's the difference between a "pedophile" who consumes fictional media and someone like GRRM who writes explicit sex scenes involving children but with the consent of the entire media industry and pop culture? Is there literally any point to this distinction when I know you for a fact do not consider applying the same kind of judgement you hold for lolicons onto "professional mainstream pedophiles" like him? It just seems like a way to bully people for something you don't like, and then post "based, nothing of value was lost lolxd" when they're victimized by fascism.
I'm not advocating we support or normalize pedophilia, quite the contrary actually. I think pedophilia should be a label reserved for those who actually victimize children so we can properly ostracize them for their crime and not dilute the label in any way. I don't think fiction has any place in handing out these labels that do nothing but provide us an easy way to hate someone. Particularly when, as in the case in the OP, the person will now be branded a sex offender and put on the registry for the rest of their life with every potential employer now knowing what they get up to behind the privacy of their own home. Is that fair to them, merely for consuming a cartoon?
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