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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
@ Brat
I think what Lirael meant is: There's already enough irresponsible idiots out there with a distorted view on what BDSM is.
The problem how to sort them out, as they are both a danger to the Subs and disastrous to the ourter perception of the lifestyle is afaik an ever persistent topic in the communities.
The last thing needed there is such a blast of misinformation hitting the mark of public focus.
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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
"If all it takes is a rock song/movie/videogame..." ? 
To other points recently made in this thread, there's already enough of a stigma and a "that's disgusting and twisted" kneejerk reaction from society with regards to BDSM. Books like these don't help public perception, if anything they probably make it worse, and reinforce the incorrect and narrow-minded belief that "normal" people would never willingly engage in these kinds of activities. |
I'm not actually disagreeing, I just don't think there is a solution. My concern is the responsibility aspect. Who is responsible? The author for writing it? The publisher for picking it up? The media for making it popular? The reader for reading it?
I've not been involved in BDSM, but I've been involved in other things where misinformation is just as much of a problem, so I'm not completely without perspective here. I was injured by someone who should have damn well known better. And that's all I'm willing to go public with on that subject.
I'm not saying we shouldn't complain when this happens. In fact, hopefully someone else thinking about writing something like this might pay attention and think about these issues, and people thinking about trying something in a book might see a warning and think twice or do more research. I guess I just get touchy when it starts to feel like there's an implication that something should not be written. And no, I'm not saying any of you that I replied to went that far, but I was on my second cup of coffee when I posted earlier so I may have knee-jerked a bit.
I was a bit fired up because of a Facebook acquaintance who wants to ban the book for completely different reasons. She apparently doesn't understand what that actually means here in the US in modern times, and also has no clue what lies between the pages of many other books. As a result, I have one less Facebook friend (doing that felt good, actually) and was worked up before I had enough coffee to think straight and clarify my position.
