Alright, motherfuckers, listen carefully:
- You say you were affected by incest. I believe you.
- It is not my place to speak over you.
- You may be bothered by seeing Wincest posts.
- You may even be bothered knowing it is something people enjoy writing about.
- What you are not, is bothered by the very existence of Wincest.
- It is not harassing you.
- It is not sending you hate.
- It is not magically appearing in your life where you can’t escape from it.
- No, really, it’s not.
- You have the power to avoid seeing it. Block blogs that post it regularly, don’t follow those people, blacklist it if it comes across your dash.
- The only thing you can rightfully ask anybody to do is tag their shit.
- Literally. That’s it. That is all they owe you, to tag their shit.
- Wincest exists. Deal with it.
- It’s existence is only harmful to you if you choose to go looking for it, knowing it will upset you.
- That seems like a pretty fucking stupid thing to do (if you even think of throwing the word ‘ableism’ at me I swear to god).
- People like things you don’t.
- People are going to engage in things you don’t understand.
- This is not news.
- One of the most bizarre human practices I’ve ever seen, one that absolutely, positively freaks me out, is the art of bodily suspension. For pleasure.
- It is actually a thing that exists. And it grosses me out. It makes me want to vomit: (warning: graphic image behind the link).
- That does not make it a trigger. Please stop misusing the word trigger. If your trigger does not send you into flashbacks from a previous trauma, cause physical convulsions, or cause an actual, literal panic attack, it is not a trigger, it is just a thing that grosses you out. Period.
- I don’t judge people who choose to engage in it.
- I don’t understand bodily suspension, I don’t understand why people choose to mutilate themselves, but I don’t fucking go looking for them to tell them how gross they are and how much it squicks me out.
- Because I am a decent human being and I understand that I don’t have to like or engage in a thing, in order for it to exist.
- Wincest, and incest ships, aren’t going anywhere.
- You could stop every shipper from posting on Tumblr and they would still ship. They would find another platform. You won’t have done anything but bully people out of a place that they once considered safe.
- Oh, and potentially destroy years and years of therapy and trigger other people into relapsing by using the same words their own abusers used.
- Are you proud of yourselves? Because I don’t know how I would sleep at night.
- Now get lost, I have smut to read.