I mean, obviously we all read our own issues into stories; that's how we connect emotionally with them
Oh definitely. There are fics I steer far, far away from because of the trigger factor - non-con, violence, and a few others - but I don't trash the fic, I accept that I have issues that make reading something like that unpleasant for me. It doesn't mean there is anything wrong with the fic, or how the author wrote it. I think her crit is extremely harsh considering, as you say, she didn't read it all. She just made an over-all judgment based on her perception - tainted by her issues - that really wasn't fair, imho.
And I do think even if you have a certain level of security in yourself, being constantly bombarded with messages that being fat means you're lazy, self-hating, unloveable, etc. gets hard to take.
Yes, it does, as well as the disgusting belief that thin is always good, which it often isn't. But that isn't what this fic was about, as you say, and I don't have a problem with anyone bailing on a fic because it triggers them - but to rant about it in that fasion - idk. It just seemed very OTT.
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Oh definitely. There are fics I steer far, far away from because of the trigger factor - non-con, violence, and a few others - but I don't trash the fic, I accept that I have issues that make reading something like that unpleasant for me. It doesn't mean there is anything wrong with the fic, or how the author wrote it. I think her crit is extremely harsh considering, as you say, she didn't read it all. She just made an over-all judgment based on her perception - tainted by her issues - that really wasn't fair, imho.
And I do think even if you have a certain level of security in yourself, being constantly bombarded with messages that being fat means you're lazy, self-hating, unloveable, etc. gets hard to take.
Yes, it does, as well as the disgusting belief that thin is always good, which it often isn't. But that isn't what this fic was about, as you say, and I don't have a problem with anyone bailing on a fic because it triggers them - but to rant about it in that fasion - idk. It just seemed very OTT.