This little rant came out of a discussion about censorship on DeviantArt. I’ve seen a lot of artists on the site complaining about how DA mods are censorship Nazis or they don’t censor enough.  I realized that in my 4 years of posting on DA I haven’t had a thing deleted.  I only know of one person, from my circle of friends, that had something deleted.  This doesn’t include stolen or traced art.  For the most part we are a pretty tame community.  Of course there are those that draw more pornographic images but they are smart enough to leave them off DA.

So this leads me to the question: Why do so many artists on DA hate the Pregnancy/inflation community*?  What have we done to infuriate them so much?

Please do not respond to or flame these links some of them are rather old. DA wouldn’t let me search the forums for anything less than 2 years old.

From personal experiences on DA I could quickly point out several comics and at least 2 names that always appear when the discussion pops up. In fact I think I shall.  The most vocal person you will run across is MangaPunksai.

I’ve had personal run-ins with her. She even has so much hate for me that she made me an Encyclopedia Dramatica page. (It was deleted for lack of lulz.) She’s best known for this comic, which gets passed around every time someone brings up Inflation, Fat, or pregnancy art. She used to be a mod and stated several times if she had her way we would be banned from DA. But by her own admitting we don’t do anything against the rules. To her it’s all about men objectifying women and any woman into it is just trying to get attention. She believes that all Expansion art is based in torture.  She refuses to acknowledge that the females depicted are, in fact, fantasies or that most men wouldn’t want an immovable lard/baby ball for a wife.

As far as our art being fantasies, I asked several people if they would want a massively pregnant wife like many people draw. The resounding answer was no. They are aware of the health problems for both the mother and children. Or some just plain don’t want kids but like to look. Most pregnancy art and literature is pure fantasy. It ranges from simple lack of negative effects like not gaining weight anywhere else to the super pregnancies where the woman can somehow still walk.

I realize that guys are fapping to much of the art on DA and that many artists draw for that reason. But most, if not all, of the artists I’m acquainted with do not get off on their own art. They draw it because they like it. It’s a fixation.

Expansion art hate topics have been popping up on DA since they started allowing art other than skins. People seem to think it’s a fad. (I did it first.)That this fetish hasn’t existed before the internet. The internet made sharing of it easier. When the topics come up I usually only want to explain my feelings on the subject so they can form an opinion not based wholly on the here say of the “haters.”

People like Mangapunksai can’t be talked to. They are very set in their opinions and turn anything anyone says into a negative. The factual Venus De Willendorf is dismissed as just a statue.  If you say you don’t draw porn they say someone faps to it so it is porn. (By that definition socks are porn to some foot fetishists.) What we draw is not, nor never will be art. After a while you get tired of dealing with them.

I want to be petty and claim Mangapunksai is a man hating lesbian (she is openly a lesbian). But it is more than that for others.  Straight men and woman voice this hatred of it as well.  Their hate is probably just as deep and diverse as our love.  They hate the image and then try to explain to themselves and others why after wards. Just as we try to put to words why we like what we do.

* I know were a very different things but most people outside our groups lump us in the same category.


Posted 12 Nov, 2008 | by KB | [9] Comments
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