Xanphibian, thank you.

[icarus]

Thank you, xanphibian.

For the record, I too am an incest survivor and I write about incest. heatherly's post... I have no words. Fortunately, xanphibian does.

Xanphibian sums up a lot of what I feel.

Yes. heatherly misses the point entirely. Yes. Many incest and rape survivors aren't just "okay" with these stories -- they actively seek them out. But to understand that, I think you should read xanphibian's post.

For the record, I'm bothered by heatherly's opportunistic fear-mongering about "outsiders" on the heels of the latest scares. There's potential for a fandom backlash against writers of incest, non-con, and chan. If that happens, no one's going to care if it's a good story or a bad story, or if it's "realistic" or not. We'll just be targeted based on the warnings.

If that happens, I'd do the same thing we did in LJ. I'd take all the warnings off my stories.

Lastly... "writing responsibly"? What the heck is that even supposed to mean?

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Definitely there seemed to be a "right way" implication in her post; I believe someone else pointed out that she went to a lot of trouble to define terms but left "responsible" out there as a very, um, nebulous "write your own definition here" kind of term, and, indeed, that word "responsible" was one of the red flags for me. The other thing that rankled was, as you say, that only people who have some personal knowledge of a subject are somehow qualified to write about it. That might be true for designing rocket engines, but somehow I don't think it's exactly true for writing fanfic. Or, um, even professional fiction. *g*