Welcome to The SoapBox!! Yeah... this is the "Soap Box". My past rants aren't read much... but there's more there than what's posted... wow, it's been a while since I've actually had a solid rant to put here.. I'd apologize but I'm not here to you guys, I do this for me... So, AnthroCon is coming up and I'll be at table 104B.. so visit and buy something... Anyhow.. I've found something I can rant about.. usually I'm very open to different fetishes and ideas.. what people like and what they think of doing.. but sometimes I stumble across something that just seems odd and wrong.. and well, it pisses me off... so I rave about it but that's not what this rant is about... well, part of it is, not the whole thing tho'... So, I make a post about it and I demean the person and there fetish, which turns out to be poppin' a girls cherry and having the blood shown within the semen... and a dildo in her ass no less... so just to sum up my stance.. what the fuck?.. why would anyone want to draw a girl's first time being ripped open and penetrated and then put a dildo in her ass?... damn idgit.. does that person even draw that kind of stuff?... and the characters that you want being portrayed goes completely against there character. so with that said I'm confronted later with someone I know saying that it was unusual for me to go off like that.. I asked why and they said because they mention stuff for me to draw and I don't bat an eye... but I told the person, when did you ever ask for a girl to get ripped open and blood to mix around the semen?... well.. needless to say that stopped the person to chastise me... But again this is merely a precursor to the actual rant.. I mean this is backstory here... So the whole point of this is to get to the fact that I don't like being grouped into something just because I draw something else... I draw blood yes.. but I don't draw it when it comes to sex... so does that mean I can't be sickened by others fetishes that play on bloody semen?... obviously to that person it does.. but like I said, I don't understand why I have to be generalized into what someone thinks I should be... it's prejudgement... like if a guy likes lolikon, that must make them a pedophile... right? ... NO!.. that's a fetish, it's not like the person goes out and rapes children... or if a person has a predisposition to anything that seems abnormal does that make it what they are?.. not in the least... unless they're mentally disturbed.. but that's a whole different thing altogether... Still.. I'm not to be lumped into an amalgamation of conformity because I draw one thing that isn't really the same as the other, yet the person thinks it is so it must be so... that's annoying and it's wrong.. it's wrong to assume that because a person tolerates one thing, he should tolerate another.. I've said it before.. I'm an individual that CANNOT be identified as a group or a faction of a group.. I'm unique and it's because of people wanting to group things in order that has them confused about me... I'm like no other, and because of that people either like me or hate me... I live with that burden, I'm not here to make you like me.. I stopped trying to do that a long long time ago... it was easier to be myself... In closing, fetish does not define a person. OMGTKB (Ben) Going to AnthroCon as a dealer... visit and buy something Table 104B