am i writing this because i'm salty over the misumi poledancing fiasco yes yes i am

[stardust_rifle]

i was just thinking about why people talk a lot more about oversexualization (which is good! it's an important thing to talk about!!) than desexualization and I think it boils down to representation politics/sex negativity in the SJsphere fandom world

okay, so, oversexualization. in a representation-pol centered SJsphere, the solution to this is the contrary narrative- have characters with typically oversexualized attributes be depicted as nonsexual

but then, with desexualization, if we go with what would be the representation-pol solution- depict these characters as sexual beings, then we run into the second problem, which is that the solution to a rep problem being more sex is anathema in our current sex-negative fandom sphere, which presents sex as never a solution, only a problem

i mean i could just be talking out of my ass here, but...