Part of twitter right now is behaving absolutely bonkers in a way that genuinely makes me nervous tbh.
See, there are a bunch of vanilla people discovering kink and cnc for the first time, and fantasy games that tie to that, and tbh I do not like fantasy games but they’re having a puritanical reaction straight out of a conservative handbook.
I understand that in times of stress, often disempowered people will search for anything they can control, but it is absolutely wild seeing people claim first of all that cnc is not a healthy coping mechanism and that we need to police what people do sexually in private while often being baby queers. Like, these people cannot hear themselves.
I have even seen some people even refer to how Steam’s fantasy games will advertise “domination, mind control, and submission” as if that is somehow something abhorrent despite the fact it is (on paper) the basics of bdsm. It is a backlash that honestly to some degree feels scripted, or comical in how stereotypical it is.
I also think there is something to be said for how these people are freaking out over arguably the most common kink next to breeding kinks while never addressing actual problems that can arise from fantasy games and content around fulfilling fantasies, such as the rampant sexualization/fetishization of minorities, which can be a problem when it is our only representation, as it often is :-V
I know it is because they don’t understand the realms they’re talking about, not really, but like, it is also kind of comical to me in a way.
Yes, one of the most common kinks is evil. Sure. Now are you going to say something about the fetishization of transgender people and/or POC into sex toys or are you somehow filtering for games that only feature straight cis white women.
