@ZeldaTheSwordsman  
“Violence and murder get taken seriously”  
Bullshit, they do. Do you have any idea how many jokes there are about hurting/killing people? A lot. I’d say there are even more about that than rape. Even as a kid, what did you shout when you were about to hit someone? “I’m gonna kill you!”
 
“But joking about rape isn’t okay”  
Why? Because it’s “offensive” or “objectionable”? Well, that’s the very idea of humor-be as offensive as you can be. Just google 9/11 jokes and see what I mean. There are tons of them. But, unlike rape jokes, there’s no public outcry. What makes rape jokes so vulgar compared to jokes about murder, or race, or sex? Because all of those things happen, yet the only thing people ultimately care about are rape jokes. Care to explain why?
 
“KID’S CARTOON”  
Rule 34; if it exists, there is porn of it. Nothing is immune from being completely twisted into something utterly despicable. See also; Cupcakes, Cheerilee’s Garden, Stick Bucket of Fun, etc. And those actually promote sexual assault and violence in the most brutal ways possible. ASM makes jokes about it, while these things don’t even try to pass them off as jokes-they’re there for the shock value, to make people squirm. So what makes them okay? Is it because they aren’t “trivializing” the issue? I can assure you, they are. And these things won’t stop just because you wish for them to stop-there’s something called the First Amendment that protects the right to make them.
 
tl;dr: get off your high horse.

I really am starting to regret being a brony when our community is acting like this… Molestia is a joke. Shit, the entire internet is one giant revolving joke, and if you’re a person that takes jokes WAY too seriously, the internet is not for you. Sure rape is a bad thing, but to start an entire campaign to try and stop and internet meme is not only stupid but a waste of time, money and resources. I’ll be waiting for this to fail just like Kony 2012 did.

@Background Pony  
Wrong. If you don’t like something you can speak out against it, just like how you’re speaking out against this movement, or how the movement is speaking out against rape culture in the fandom.

@ZeldaTheSwordsman  
I’m sorry but this whole targeting something just because it’s popular is stupid, if your not going to try to tackle the big issue then how do we know you won’t just stop after that smaller one is gone, if your not going for the big one then your making it seem like your just going after something you don’t like on a personal level.

@ZeldaTheSwordsman  
Which is why I haven’t seen molestia until now… K…

@ZeldaTheSwordsman  
That’s your opinion. Your opinion is NOT the only one there is. You don’t have to like it but you do have to deal with it.

“I don’t like this! Please make it so I don’t have to see it!”  
This is what these people are doing. Please tell me how this is reasonable behavior?  
Let’s apply it to the movies;  
“I don’t like this movie! You need to remove it from your theater, so I can’t see it!”  
Or the mall;  
“I don’t like this store! You need to remove it from your mall, so I can’t shop there!”
 
These are unreasonable responses. THESE are reasonable responses;  
“I don’t like this movie, so I won’t see it.”  
“I don’t like this store, so I won’t shop there.”

@Background Pony  
The thing is, violence and murder get taken seriously in real life. But rape and sexual harassment aren’t. They get treated as jokes in the physical world, the victims get blamed instead of the perpetrators, and even when the perps are convicted they get only a token punishment. So joking isn’t okay.
 
As for why “Down with Molestia” instead of “Down with Rape Culture”, dealing with rape culture is in fact the long-term aim. Molestia has been targeted because FiM IS A KID’S SHOW! Because the meme is popular, Molestia stuff is everywhere. So widespread that it can get shoved in your face even when actively trying to avoid it.

@Background Pony
 
And irrelevant of anything regarding the validity of the movement itself, literally none of that is conveyed by wearing a T-shirt that says the words “Down With Molestia” on the front. That message is so painfully esoteric in nature that it cannot remotely be said to be “promoting real awareness” when absolutely no people who see it in public (assuming the people who actually support the movement do wear it in public) will know what it is trying to convey. It just makes the entire thing incredibly ironic.

@Background Pony  
Really, to many keep pointing to just JJ’s work and sexual assault =/= rape, it covers a WIDE number of thing, but most of them act like it’s ONLY rape.  
Sorry but they are not helping themselves by point to one blog all the time and acting like it’s all rape.

@Background Pony  
That’s genuinely interesting to me.

@Prof.NightJack  
It’s not just the one blog, it’s the idea of Molestia and rape culture in the fandom as a whole. This is something they repeatedly state, but you’re right that JJ’s blog gets the most attention because that’s got the most content under the Molestia name. And… seriously, there are a LOT of examples of non-consentual or coerced sexual activity in the blog, all played for laughs. That’s sexual assault. It’s rape.
 
And if you look at PinkiePony’s blog you’ll see an ask about a guy who was molested by a woman when he was a boy, and he finds Molestia very painful to see and appreciates the movement against it. Some of the supporters forget men can be harmed, absolutely, but the heart of it hasn’t.

@Prof.NightJack  
THIS!!!

@ZeldaTheSwordsman  
And how some of them are putting forth that info of just women getting rapes, like it doesn’t happen to men at all, and that only men commit rape.

@ZeldaTheSwordsman  
But there is a problem with this, promote awareness is one thing but to do it by targeting something you didn’t look into(a number of DWM people keep saying it’s a blog full of rape jokes where there isn’t even one it is, the one behind it won’t even look at the page for it as proven by her not knowing of Gamer Luna when it’s in the page’s title) is not the same.  
Why target just the one blog?

I think to “promote awareness” for something, you need to put a cause T-shirt people will:
 

 
A shirt that said something like “Down With Rape Culture” would probably do that, because to a layman that sounds like a pretty valid thing to speak out about and is straightforward enough to understand without explanation. A shirt that says “Down with a My Little Pony tumblr that you’ve never heard of to such an extent that you don’t even recognize the word Molestia” will not.

@Background Pony  
Rape culture is a real cultural problem, for men and women alike. And that’s what the whole ‘anti-Molestia’ thing is about, not just the one blog. JJ didn’t create Molestia, after all. It’s a fandom meme that a lot of people have had issue with since the very beginning.
 
@Xidphel  
Of course I’m not sorry that charities are going to be helped and the DWM people are backing their words up with action. Why would I be?

@ZeldaTheSwordsman  
The fact that people support a game like Call of Duty that treats war and killing like a game when they’re not, is PROOF that awareness needs to be raised about FPS games and violence in general. What if someone sees them and has a trigger?

They are donating to charity?  
Well that’s something good that will come from this.

As kind of pointless the campaign is, at the very least they’re utilizing their nonsense to benefit people.
 
So if nothing else, they get points for it.
 
If it is indeed true.

@Background Pony  
>“Sorry”  
No you’re not.

@Background Pony  
All the shirts will do is cause people to raise eyebrows and think you are nucking futs. She should target legitimate cultural problems not a parody blog.

The proceeds are going to charity, and T-shirts do promote awareness.
 
Sorry people can’t say the DWM movement is just sitting on it’s ass not helping real problems, I guess.

This is libel. The proceeds from the shirts (As well as a good chunk of the initiating artist’s job earnings) GET donated. And the campaign IS promoting real awareness: The fact that people support a blog that treats sexual harassment and rape (Joking about it by implication is still joking about it) as joking matters when they’re not, is PROOF that awareness needs to be raised.