Your Fascination With Titanic is a Disaster Fetish, amirite?

I think you can have a large appreciation for and interest in the Titanic without fetishizing the disaster aspect. It was a tremendous feat of engineering for the time. That, coupled with man's hubris towards its abilities, is fascinating.

by Anonymous 5 days ago

Yeah the examples are horrible. A September 11th flight simulator? Is there a Titanic crash-into-icebergs simulator? I doubt it. I mean I'd probably play it, but I don't think it exists.

by Anonymous 5 days ago

I feel like this is such a none issue. I haven't met anyone whose fascination in the Titanic is as you described. People are fascinated by the Titanic because it was a disaster that was advertised (back then) as being impossible and they are curious to learn how it became a reality. They do the same thing with 9/11. People just in general have a facination with "HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN" regardless of whether or not it is a disaster. It's human nature. We're curious creatures. Not a fetish.

by ChemistryNovel 5 days ago

They make video games about most of the wars ever fought. Are you mad about that too?

by pacochadomenica 5 days ago

We actually probably should be worried about that lol why do we want to roleplay as someone living through one of history's unimaginable horrors? Saying this as someone who plays war games. It's good to occasionally take a hard look at ourselves.

by Wild-Mobile-2911 5 days ago

Because it's healthier to explore the dark side of human psychology through the lens of fiction than to bring back things like actual public execution and gladiatorial combat. Humans have a dark side. No use pretending otherwise. Better to explore that in a relatively less harmful way.

by Lopsided_Store_2256 5 days ago

I think it's more the fact it's the first pair of tits I saw in a movie

by Difficult-Work-7458 5 days ago

Dude, it's this. I mean not necessarily the tits specifically, although we're probably about the same age because I'm pretty sure it was my sighting as well lol. But just the movie in general. And liking the movie has nothing to do with liking the disaster aspect of it. It's like saying people must like Die Hard because they have a Christmas fetish. But yeah if not for the movie, 90% of people wouldn't even know what the titanic was. I, for my part, am partial to the Edmund Fitzgerald

by Sure_Efficiency3606 5 days ago

… a disaster fetish?😶

by Anonymous 5 days ago

There's no one left from 1912 to be upset about other people romanticizing the event, so it's hard to compare it to your other examples.

by Anonymous 5 days ago

That's… kinda what unpopular opinion is for?

by Putrid_Candidate 5 days ago

No, it's called Nautism because I'm obsessed with all ships...the Titanic just happens to be a famous one.

by connellyberneic 5 days ago

Focusing on these things, can be really humbling and grant someone inner strength and endurance, to endure their own specific life sufferings.

by Anonymous 5 days ago

I'm okay with all of it lol. But to answer your question, things that happened longer ago are less likely to be upsetting to living people. No one alive today has trauma from some war 10,000 years ago. People still remember and were there for September 11.

by Lopsided_Store_2256 5 days ago

Idk why people are arguing with you, you're honestly right. The titanic is pretty unremarkable in comparison to other feats in history without the disaster aspect and the lore from the movie. My unpopular opinion is that I don't necessarily think there's anything wrong with being fascinated by disasters. I think you can be fascinated by the events and stories of disasters and still hold a lot of respect and compassion for the people who lost their lives. There are also a lot of world war II memorbelia and video games inspired by it, titanic is no exception.

by Anonymous 5 days ago