i mean i know you’re taking the piss, but Dan O'Bannon has talked at length about how he did very much deliberately write the movie to attack a male character in a way that invoked oral rape and violent childbirth because he wanted the film to create sexual anxiety and fear in the men in the audience, which he felt was an untapped potential in horror
“Dan O'Bannon specifically wrote this scene with the male’s fear of penetration in mind and wanted the scene to operate as a payback of sorts for all of the times horror films have subjected weak women to male predatory monsters. His goal was to reverse the stigma associated with the sexualized violence against women in horror and turn the idea back on itself. It’s no coincidence that the chestburster’s birth involves a forceful invasion of male bodied victims and concludes with a phallic entity being born out of a male’s chest.”
uhg, saw a post literally on my dash of the “if you’re not for banning content on ao3 just admit that you like CP” ilk and it’s just so frustrating because
i don’t want ao3 to ban certain kinds of content specifically because i do not like and do not want to see underage content.
fanfiction.net bans explicit adult content, but i know for a fact that there is still explicit adult content on fanfiction.net because i often unwittingly came across it in fics where it’s not labeled! there’s good reason i don’t go there to read fics anymore!
banning content doesn’t stop it from existing on that website, it simply makes it harder to moderate. part of why ao3’s system is so loved is because we are able to specify our searches to include and exclude multiple elements, but we’re only able to do so when those elements are labeled.
If we ban the “content” what will actually be banned are the labels that allow us to avoid it.
remember when prohibition was passed and all it did was remove any kind of regulation on booze?
its kind of like that. banning the content you dont like will only mean its posted without being tagged and it cant be blacklisted.
