Originally posted by: aye-masakalii
I know I sometimes react very very strongly to these things, but it's just one of those big pet peeves. I am not a counsellor or therapist, but my academic and professional background is in psychology, and I've worked somewhat extensively on Intimate Partner Violence in the past, so both watching such stuff on TV, and reading the kind of comments that are common here just immediately infuriates and scares me. Adults ka toh kuch kar nahi sakte, but when I see young girls internalizing these beliefs and romanticising abusive, toxic men under the tag of 'he's an alpha', I just..idk. It's upsetting. I worry for them turning into Kirtis in real life, because no one deserves that, and the line between admiring certain traits in fiction and then in real life is so thin, and so blurry.
I used to be on IF a few years back as well, and rejoined this year on a different account, but one of the reasons I left was how prevalent these things got at one point. It's so much better now. I remember a phase where it was very cool for the ML to rape the FL in fanfics, and it would be all leading into romantic and angsty plotlines, and just for the sake of my own mental health, I had to deactivate and leave.