Which makes more than sense… If a character is a Nazi and you defend their Nazi behavior, then you’re a Nazi. How on earth can you possibly defend and excuse something if you don’t agree with it??
You will never see me defend a fictional character who is a rapist. Why? Bcs I don’t agree with it, so why would I defend and excuse it…?
The same way, if you defend a pedophile, you’re a pedophile and we need to check your hard drive because it really takes one to defend one…
fictional media can still influence attitudes about things like consent or power dynamics. It’s not always about directly affecting stats like rape or murder, like it can shape how people see and treat others, even if it's not super obvious. they can normalize harmful ideas that affect how people behave or think about real-life issues. It's not about the stats it’s about the vibes and attitudes behind it, not just the actions. Like yes someone defending and normalizing rape on mangago dot com won’t make rapist rape more but it would def make victim of rape feel unsupported or unheard. And this is called feeding into rape culture which CAN actually have impact on the stats you were talking about
Also I would like to disagree with your murdered statistics thingy cuz it’s not true at all. some horror movies have inspired killers in the past. Like, certain movies have actually influenced how people commit crimes or the methods they use. For example, Natural Born Killers (1992) was linked to a couple who went on a killing spree in the '90s. Yeah, they tried to copy that. Or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre there were reports of people actually getting inspired by Leatherface, and even crimes happening that copied scenes from the movie. Same with Scream
Also if I want to disagree with people treating rape as something lesser evil then cheating I will.
Just because it’s meant to be a certain way doesn’t mean it should be without critique
Fiction is fake but it had/have/will have impact and influence in our society wether we like it or not so let’s not be obtuse and selfish and feed into weird ass culture like rape culture
I genuinely do NOT feel bad for Yoonho’s ass at all. “He betrayed me and cheated” nigga, you raped him and made someone watch you do it. Nobody gives a fuck that he broke your rapist heart. Suyeon’s a bad person, but the other two are fucking sex offenders, so yeah, I’m choosing the cheater who got manipulated and raped over the actual rapists. The other two can go kill themselves for all I care.