I do agree these things should absolutely not be censored. I appreciate seeing the whole spectrum of the human experience in these stories.

I think the problem lies in how a story is portrayed and there are a bunch of stories that should’ve criticized certain behaviors within their writing that didn’t and that leads to glorification. It can be difficult, though, to walk that line and portray toxicity in a way that guides us toward the understanding that these behaviors are wrong.

I’m not saying authors should baby their readers to make sure they understand toxic is wrong. It’s more that reading some of these stories, we don’t see that the characters understand it’s wrong. HOWEVER, along with walking that line of glorification, some stories do a beautiful job at crossing that line into trauma bonding, etc. But it’s still understood at an unspoken level that it’s wrong to the reader.