today's writer's block question really effed up

[wathsalive]

I hope this post is considered appropriate discussion in the comm.

Yeah so today's writer's block question is:

If you were the TSA at Hogwarts, which Harry Potter character would you pat down, and why?Um ... is it just me or does this feels really triggering and creepy? I DON'T want to imagine myself as a TSA. And this feels like it's

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[fishphile]

Yes, it's creepy and fucked up.

[jonathankorman]

No, it's not just you. Yes, that's really @#$%'d up.

[nikoel]

I do not care for this at all. Am definitely not amused.

[brewsternorth]

It's not the first time that Writer's Block has come up with some horrible questions, but this one is *especially* egregious.

I want to know who's letting these past. Any damnfool on the Internet can come up with a question like this one, but which mod at writersblock thought this was worthy to post over the entirety of Livejournal?

/eta: apparently the question has now changed to some relatively innocuous one about "what spell would you cast?", with no reference to the TSA *and* no mention that the previous question went down the memory hole.

[technocratic]

Not going to lie and say I wouldn't have my own answer to that question, but the fact that most people would pat down those we find attractive is just a good example of why the screening procedures are flawed.

People are people, whether they are LJ users or TSA employees. We're all flawed, and we all make decisions for selfish, base reasons.

[maynardsong]

This.
But I don't get why everyone's so fucking pissed off about women and teen girls having dirty thoughts about HP characters. It's not pedophilia, they're not children by the end of the series, they're adults, and their actors are in their twenties. Many of the fans themselves are themselves underage. A teenager lusting after a fellow teenager? Not. A. Bad. Thing. Especially not a girl lusting after a boy. Christian Coulson, who played young Tom Riddle, is 32. Snape and Lucius and Lupin and Sirius are definitely grownass men.
How the fuck is any of this on par with grown men, say, counting down the days until Emma Watson turned legal?

[technocratic]

I don't think people are getting pissed off about teen girls having dirty thoughts about HP characters.

I think people are angered by the idea of sexualizing TSA screenings, a process that is already humiliating and dehumanizing.

[maynardsong]

Then stick to that. I agree that sexualizing TSA screenings is fucked up, but my impression is that that's getting conflated with fantasizing about HP characters. And even the adult women thinking about Ron and Harry, well, they're 36 at the epilogue, Ron's 18 at the end of DH, and Rupert Grint and Dan Radcliffe are 22 and 21, respectively. Cedric Diggory's played by Robert Pattinson, 24. Oliver Wood and Percy would be 21 or 22 through most of Deathly Hallows. The "underage" point is so utterly moot.