Mafias daddies and gang bad boys, just another turd being deep throated by wattpadders with no taste. I've kind of purposefully avoided this rant for a very long time but I know it'll piss off many, many authors and readers, so that gave me the motivation to work on it.

Mafia/gang books (primarily mafia though) are in the top genres of books on this site next to bad boy teen fics and werewolves/vampires. Mafia romance is so popular you can search "mafia aesthetic" on google and get pics of "mafia couples" in random mansions and posing with guns or dogs or whatever.

The only reason people love young, hot, possessive, dominant, mafia dons is because they're portrayed very differently from real mafia men. But even still these books portray them as supposedly cold, heartless men who are ruthless, what's so attractive about someone who literally tortures and murders people? Who treats others like shit? Who does pretty much any illegal activity possible?

Fun fact, did you know real mafias are involved in human trafficking? Yeah, that's one activity among many all of you forget. Cause in case you were unaware given the fact you don't research shit, a very big moneymaker for mafias is human trafficking and prostitution.

Tell me, would you find someone attractive if you knew they were fueling human trafficking and prostitution? Aka exploiting people and even children for sex and other favors. In fact, I've heard more than once that the Italian mafia is the one who got prostitution legalized in the state of Nevada. But before you say "yassss queenz make that coin, woman empowerment!!" and all that jazz, know that wherever prostitution is legal, human trafficking is way higher as it's easier to get away with.

So no, the mafia helping get it legalized did not do anything to benefit regular sex workers, they simply wanted to make it easier for themselves to exploit people. It also makes it easier for normal sex workers to wind up in trafficking situations.

But let's back up a bit, maybe you're not okay with human trafficking, but murdering bad guys who do bad things isn't as bad obviously, right? They have their "code and honor" to only murder bastards and not harm the innocent, right? Right?

Sourced from a Quora Digest post:

Maria Angela Ansalone (9 years old) was on a car that casually passed in front of a shop where a double homicide had just taken place in the context of a local mafia war. Both the girl and her grandfather Giuseppe Biccheri were killed by the shots.

Cocò Campolongo (3 years old) was killed, burned alive, by Faustino Campilongo and Cosimo Donato along with his grandfather and the girlfriend of the man. The grandfather was the head of a mafia family at war with the killers' family.

On November 23, 1993, Giovanni Brusca kidnapped Giuseppe Di Matteo (13 years old), the son of a member of the same mafia family who had been arrested and had started cooperating with the police. They held the kid for over two years in the attempt to force the father to stop talking to the police. On January 11, 1996 Giuseppe was strangled then his body was melted in a tub filled with nitric acid

Placido Rizzotto was a Socialist militant, a former partisan, and a trande unionist in Corleone. On March 10 1948 he was beaten to death for his activity in favor of the local peasants. A young shepherd of 12 years of age, Giuseppe Letizia, was accidentally present and the next day he was found, shocked and with a fever. He told the police and was sent to the hospital, where he was killed with a poison injection by Michele Navarra, the mafia chief who had ordered the homicide of Placido Rizzotto and the doctor at the local hospital.

In 2017 the students of a primary school in Palermo made a research listing of 108 children killed by the Mafia between the end of the XIX century and today.

And that's just children, so imagine how many innocent adults are killed by your hawt mafia daddies simply because they personally see fit :)

Part of a story from a user whose father was in the mafia and was answering a question relating to how the mafia is in reality compared to movies:

Mafia in real life has nothing to do with movies, it's not romantic like Micheal Corleone. These people are ruthless and killers.

The boss of my town ordered the killing of his own son, just because he was using drugs and he did not approve. They approach you when you are young and make you think that they are good people who care about you. It is easy to recruit guys in places where there are no jobs.

But they will kill you on the first opportunity, it's always about the money and the power. There are a couple of saying my father taught me:

If you enter Mafia you will have only 2 choices in life: Jail or premature death.

When you are a mafioso and they sentence you to die, it will always be your best friend that kills you.

I have seen a lot of friends join this world, only to end up like my father said. Dead or in jail. I saw some of these friends' bodies laying in the street, dead with a bullet in their head. When they entered they felt respected, they made a lot of money but in the end, they are all dead or spending their life in prison.

So let me ask again, do you think someone who does this is hot and sexy and is a daddy? If you do, then you're quite fucked beyond repair, to say the least, and I honestly hope you have a horrible life with your shitty morals.

Oh and if you think that mafia wives are badass bitches killing bad guys alongside their men and are sexy, seductive, and dangerous: a snippet from a People magazine article talking to an ex mafia wife:

Is there a typical Mafia wife?

There are three groups. The class "C" wife goes no further than pots and pans and dirty diapers. She wouldn't like to leave Little Italy. A "B" wife comes up with her husband. When he trades in his suit and two pairs of pants for a $300 mohair suit, she gets better accommodations, like a house on Long Island. She also joins the local PTA, plays bingo, and becomes a scouting den mother.

What about the "A" wife?

I was one. An "A" wife is a former girlfriend who is always on the arm of her man. To hell with the pots and pans. Some of these women are second wives. In some cases, they live in homes that cost six figures, though most Mafia families prefer to blend into the suburban community in a low-key way.

Has women's liberation changed the Mafia?

It hasn't affected anything. The Italian upbringing is simple—the wife remains housebound. There was one woman, though, who collected shylock money by hitting people over the head with a pocketbook. She was the wife of the former head of the Bonanno family. She was killed.

Is there a high incidence of divorce among Mafia families?

No. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for nothing? A Mafia man can go out and get involved with another woman, but he doesn't usually leave his wife and children because he has seen his own mother raise 10 or 15 kids. He loves his mother, and he sees his wife in the same way.

What did you do when you found out about his heroin activities?

I was furious and told him to get that junk out of the house. He had it in the baby's room. I was pregnant with a second child at the time and he promised that he would never expose us again. Often, though, Mafia men will marry just to have a place to stash illegal goods.

So basically a mafia wife is a rich 50s housewife, not a sidekick to their husband. Yeah, on top of the other shit, cheating is pretty normal too, that's so hot and sexy! Right?! A lot of girlfriends and wives of the mafia are also abused as well.

Oh and one last thing, did you know mafias also support dogfighting? 

Literally, the top result when you google mafias and dogfighting:

But the Mafia's most lucrative activity has been dogfighting, which law enforcement authorities say is now an estimated $500 million-a-year business. It has since become so widespread that 5,000 dogs die each year, according to LAV. Typically, a makeshift pit is formed by spectators, who shout to incite the dogs.

While the article that is from is from the year 2000, VICE also did a short youtube video last year talking about this as well.

Once a-fucking-gain, would you want to date someone who thought abusing dogs and treating them like disposable pieces of trash for entertainment was fun? 

I have done all of your research for you, you're welcome.

wElL jOcElYn, iT's JuSt a sTorY, iT dOeSn'T HaVe tO Be aCcuRaTe!! Even though these books aren't accurate, they still romanticize supposedly ruthless killers and people who support the drug industry and other things. Not to mention, a lot of times in these books they always treat any woman who isn't the MC like utter shit and sometimes even just abuse them. Which most of ya'll think is fine because it's not the MC, which is pretty disgusting of you.

Idk about you but that alone aside from everything else is a major turn-off for me, if I saw my partner hit someone for little to no reason or even just be an asshole to them for little to no reason, I'd punch the shit out of them right back and fucking leave. Guess I'm quirky and value morals instead of looks and what cologne a man wears like that.

Finding out all of this information only took about an hour of googling around to read and skimming a few video interviews with real mafia men. Therefore this information is not hard to learn about.

I know I didn't really cover gang stories, I focused on mafias because those are more popular. But those are pretty much the same. People write gangs a lot more nice than they actually are and romanticize shitty people who do a lot of the same things as the mafias and often do way more violent crimes and do crimes against innocent people a lot more as well. But they have tattoos and are all pretty ass white boys (even though most American gangs are overwhelmingly African American) so it's fine I guess.

Anyway,

There's a reason the mafia has the negative reputation it does. And it's not just from importing and exporting drugs, gambling, smoking cigars and drinking whiskey, and killing only opposing mafia members or other criminals.

If you want to romanticize murders, drug dealers, abusers, and animal abusers, you do you, just remember the real mafia and gangs will laugh at you until they die when they see your little book and what you think crime organizations are like.

But next time you write a mafia book or get your panties wet reading one, think about all of the shit I listed, even still, there's much much more they do that I didn't mention.