The prime points that I’m getting out of this Down With Molestia campaign are that it fetishizes and/or makes light of rape and rape survivors, and that children might find it.
I’m not sure where rape comes into the equation, because it has never been so much as even been hinted at. Rape is not a joke and Molestia smartly steers clear of that. Is she lewd? Most certainly! I can think of a few posts where a real person would have been slapped with sexual harassment. To stretch that into rape, however, is intentionally demonizing the blog for a characteristic it does not possess.
Children might find it? Where are their parents to monitor their activities? This “think of the children” mentality that’s been growing for the last couple of decades has done nothing but attempt to create irrational censoring. It is not the job of content creators to keep children away from their material. They provide parents with the tools necessary to do so, such as ratings and tags.
Wouldn’t it be silly if people attacked a film producer because a bunch of kids snuck into an R-rated movie at the theater? Film and television are rated and it is the job of the parent to keep their child from viewing. Similarly, online content is (ideally) tagged. Yes, some creators are irresponsible in this regard, which only serves to further underline the point that parents must be aware of what their children are doing. Video games or television or lewd pony blogs or whatever the next convenient excuse is are not to blame — the parent’s lack of involvement in their child’s life is.
Won’t someone think of the children, they cry out, as they plop their child in front of the computer to browse the web unsupervised.
Thank you.
