''This does not normalize rape in it, that is a false argument used by people who think the majority of us don't know right from wrong and reality from fiction. It's also the same argument that people used to say that violent video games cause gun violence, which we know, based on data, that this isn't true.
You can certainly not enjoy dark themes and should in fact stay away from content that depicts them. A lot of folks (myself included) enjoy dark things because it helps us recover from our own trauma, but there are also folks who just enjoy exploring darker things in fictional settings, which is perfectly fine and has been done for literally thousands of years.
There is no question in this story about what it is, it isn't portrayed as proper BDSM or consensual. The tag being there is because it includes those themes, which it does. This film (and the manga) are rated as strictly for adults and there is a reason for that, they aren't for kids who don't know what this kind of stuff is.
Basically my point is this, don't try to tell adults what they should or shouldn't enjoy, it's fiction and it hurts no one, these characters are not real and we adults who read what they go through know how to differentiate between fiction and reality.
In fiction I do not draw a line, as long as it is in a fictional setting I don't care what happens. These are themes that should be warned for, of course, and they are for adults only. We are responsible for our own actions and we know right from wrong, those in the minority who don't are still responsible for their own actions and are not forced to do things because a book/movie/video game had these things in it.''
''This does not normalize rape in it, that is a false argument used by people who think the majority of us don't know right from wrong and reality from fiction. It's also the same argument that people used to say that violent video games cause gun violence, which we know, based on data, that this isn't true.
You can certainly not enjoy dark themes and should in fact stay away from content that depicts them. A lot of folks (myself included) enjoy dark things because it helps us recover from our own trauma, but there are also folks who just enjoy exploring darker things in fictional settings, which is perfectly fine and has been done for literally thousands of years.
There is no question in this story about what it is, it isn't portrayed as proper BDSM or consensual. The tag being there is because it includes those themes, which it does. This film (and the manga) are rated as strictly for adults and there is a reason for that, they aren't for kids who don't know what this kind of stuff is.
Basically my point is this, don't try to tell adults what they should or shouldn't enjoy, it's fiction and it hurts no one, these characters are not real and we adults who read what they go through know how to differentiate between fiction and reality.
In fiction I do not draw a line, as long as it is in a fictional setting I don't care what happens. These are themes that should be warned for, of course, and they are for adults only. We are responsible for our own actions and we know right from wrong, those in the minority who don't are still responsible for their own actions and are not forced to do things because a book/movie/video game had these things in it.''