Rant on fetish shamers/haters

If there's one thing getting involved in the fart fetish community has taught me, it's how, according to the majority of the internet, HAVING A FETISH IS THE WORST POSSIBLE THING IN THE WORLD AND EVERYONE WHO HAS ONE SHUD KILL DEMSELVZZZZ!!!!!!!!!1!!

I'm exaggerating, of course. Fetishes are perfectly normal to have-- in fact, I believe that it's less common to NOT have any fetishes at all. What makes me upset is how so many people think that having a fetish automatically makes you a freak of nature and unfit to live on this planet. I would know, because I used to be one of those people.

When I first found out the fart fetish existed, I HATED it and everyone who had it. Old watchers of mine might remember a particularly horrible story I wrote in which a fart fetish artist I despised at the time gets brutally tortured by the characters in his artwork... and I regret writing every word of that. It was straight up bullying and I apologize to everyone who might have seen that. Not only that, writing it made me extremely uncomfortable. It was too violent and mean-spirited for me to even think about continuing, which is why I scrapped it.

But yeah... I was a fetish hater a few years back. The one thing that made me stop was the realization that I myself had a fart fetish. It turns out my hatred for the fetish was just my way of denying the fact that I had one, and once I came to grips with it, I realized it was pointless to hate on that sort of thing.

I just find it so sad that so many other people haven't come to this conclusion yet. We all know how much hate AnimatedJames got for admitting to his fetish. Hell, the guy even got DEATH THREATS, which to be honest is much too extreme. Being sexually attracted to something like farts doesn't mean a person deserves to die. There are HUNDREDS, maybe even THOUSANDS of fetishes out there, and many of them are far worse. I personally don't like scat, inflation or fat fetishism, but I'm willing to accept that some people find those things attractive and I don't complain about it.

Besides, no one CHOOSES their fetish. It develops over time, and once you know you have one, there's really nothing you can change about it. I never ASKED to be sexually aroused by farts, it just happened. And even really messed up fetishes like necrophilia or pedophilia can't be helped as well. All a fetish is is something that a person finds attractive, and unless they're out murdering people or raping children, they should be free to like that sort of thing.

I'm not saying I agree with pedophilia or necrophilia. I'm just saying that most people can't control what their fetishes turn out to be, and if they aren't directly hurting anyone, it shouldn't matter to anyone else what they're into. People who hate on fetishists are the immature ones, in my opinion. For all we know, they could be in denial of their own kinks.