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hot take: "separate reality from fiction" and "bts are real people who deserve respect and continuously attaching the same negative traits to them can and will affect them" are both valid statements despite some people's best efforts to deny it
older armys will fondly remember the cold yoongi stereotype and how it followed him for years....how jin had to literally come out and say he didn't like being called eomma because of the same invasive "fictional" tropes
it starts this way and then suddenly makes its way into general fandom. where do you think most of those perceived "flaws" that people see in them come from? it's funny because j/imin being called an attention seeker started in fiction. j/oon being called pretentious
and manipulative started in fiction. y/oon being called cold started in fiction. j/in being called eomma started in fiction. you can say all you want to separate the two and i have agreed with that in multiple instances, but
if you CONSTANTLY write them the same way, and you constantly talk of irl bts the same way you treat your "fictional" bts, its pretty clear you do associate these traits with them. why does your j/oon always have to be a cheater? why does your g/oo always have to be
naive and "stupid"? why does your t/ae always have to be rude and angry? no matter how much you try to deny it, if you say the same exact things abt tbe boys as antis, then you are one. it's really that simple.
also im gonna add this: if your best answer to people questioning you on how you view the boys is "if you can't separate reality from my fictional content you aren't mature enough" it's pretty evident you don't actually pay any mind to bts. they HAVE been affected by
those tropes, and i feel like the real lack of maturity here is the refusal to acknowledge that. although i used to think fiction didn't affect reality in ANY capacity, i now realise this is not entirely true and fiction has been and continues to be a very powerful propaganda
tool. denying it shows shows a lack of judgment as well as a pretty egocentric view of consumable content. fiction has affected people. this isn't about the morally grey aspects of fiction themselves but HOW they are presented and who they are attached to. in particular
real people. no one is saying to not write about cheating or abuse. but attaching them to the same characters over and over is sure to raise suspicions.
anyway i wrote this in the middle of the night and i was too tired but i just want to add that this furthermore creates a PATTERN, which, once in place, is very hard to get out of. isn't it weird that 95% of armys spoke out against things like eomma j/in and cold y/oongi and yet
we still find them all over the place??? it's because it was implemented as a pattern. even LONG after the initial harm and even once those stereotypes are dismantled, they remain because of that pattern. so leave your little "it doesn't matter it's all fiction" thinkpieces.
it's the same kind of pattern that queer representation gets in media where even after the stereotypes are dismantled and spoken against, they still remain because it permanently affects people's perception of given identities. at least have the self respect to
reflect further upon your views, and respect bts enough to realise this is more about them than it is about you. i think that's all for now.
