#another random steven universe rant without a real point

[hifi-walkman]

Super annoying to me how much Steven Universe Future bought into the "rose quartz is evil" shit. like... no???

like, how is the conclusion of volleyball's episode "actually rose quartz was just bad" and not, "I'm sorry you never got to meet the person she became... that you never got to hear her apologize". How is the conclusion of Rose Buds that "oh rose quartz is bad actually" and not, "How the fuck did the remaining diamonds just do this to them. that's fucked up."

How is "pink diamond was violent and childish" somehow seen as an incompatible statement with "rose quartz was caring and mature"... like, the entire original show is about people growing and changing for the better.

It feels like Future is overly concerned with internet pedants, where it really shouldn't be.

Steven in season 4 and 5 spends the "being wrong" portion of his arc believing he had to attone for things his mother did, that he had some "magical destiny" and coming to resent his mother's actions (that freed a planet, saved a species, and eventually resulted in the liberation of the entirety of the diamond empire, and only caused bad things to the extent that the other diamonds reacted to it with cruelty, which was oftentimes completely unexpected by rose, like with the diamond blast and human zoo).

By the end of the original show it feels like Steven finally figures out "Oh wait, no I'm just supposed to be a person" as the final concluding message of the series. that being whoever you are matters far more than any sort of destiny or purpose someone else could ever place upon you. But future spends its opening episodes mostly focusing on backpedaling that progress in perspective to the point that we're back to an "evilness" of rose greater than when Steven thought she was a hypocritical murderer!

a sidenote on the movie, I think it also has a bit of this problem, "textual analysis" of story events shows that spinel is the consequence of rose's actions as a child, that is only resolved by the consequences of her actions as an adult (steven re-enacting the history of the crystal gems' arcs and interactions with rose throughout the movie letting them help him at the end of the movie... and steven existing at all), but the dialog shows that at the least, Steven conceptualizes his mother as a bad person, and at most the movie expects you to agree with that.

(also I really don't want to have a lengthy discussion about "why she's evil" or something. constant textual evidence in the original show demonstrate that she was a good person in a terrible situation, who made a lot of mistakes as a child, and was maybe a bit overly fond of keeping secrets from her loved ones... Keeping secrets from people is not an overwhelming character evil, it's like the most common character flaw of literally everyone in the show, including Steven. Rose is not uniquely evil for it. Characterizing her actions as "Abuse" is silly)

[maneaterwithtail]

Warning depressed overindulgent rant about kids cartoon incoming

I’m cross-posting that’s from spacebattles. You know I really need to start posting some positive s*** about Steven Universe. There’s a reason why it keeps getting my attention. I really love the setup, there are wonderful events, I love that its Aim so well. It’s managed to assemble a number of things as well as had a way of interacting with fans that encourages creativity and a community that produces so much that can be loved and expresses Joy. 

I guess I’m just a natural Grump and I can only talk about things when I’m pissed off or think I’m being smart by dissecting it. Which in my mind means needlessly ranting about every silly little thing that I observe about a work or feel about a work or I feel about the people that I’m watching the work alongside. I understand if this is not the kind of thing that you like. I can also understand if you want to be defensive of the show. Just respect the fact that I’m a person who has watched the show for a bit or just a person at all. But I do want to have some sort of discussion. It is why I am posting this out loud. It’s just with the ramp up for more speculation and another interview I just feel like we’ve been at this dance so many damn times and we’re just being jerked around here. Which of course is the purpose of any work of art. At least serial media. You constantly give just enough so that people feel inclined to come back for more. But I guess well read the rant

Whiteeyes, post: 36894166, member: 314250

No mo, it felt much much worse. See Lost had no answers when it was written. It was created to pile up mysteries for a season or so and then get cancled like Twin Peams and every ither wekrd mystery show so they never had to answer any. It became too popular to cancel and they had to scramble to invent answers. SU has had dorwshadowing and setup as warly as season 1. It knows what it is doing.

 .... I personally think that Steven Universe's character development and pacing is hampered by the fact that it wants to make everything a f****** mystery. This was a characteristic of Lost in a way that it got ridiculous. To the point where things like what's on Jack's tattoo or who is married or who was not or who had a terminal illness that they had known publicly forever and so on and so forth.  

  I think Steven Universe suffers from the same problem. Basic character development, interaction, or what-have-you tends to be put in a mystery box just so that that way we can create drama and then have it emerge later to create a resolution without progress. 

The problem is that while mystery is their main tool in this endeavor to set up interest it's not the only way in which they do this and then be annoying. Now some of this is the fans frothing themselves up.

 relevant example, when we see a title and then flip out about major speculation for a major plot point and then get disappointed when it's basically not so. 

 However I think this is in a part with all of their setup plot developments. As an example the return of Marty.  

  I actually want to be very fair-minded here. The Sour Cream situation identity and everything about him was very carefully set up over the course of a year and it actually made sense for once that he was a relatively new char in Stevens life. He's apparently older, runs with a different crowd, all that stuff. 

Marty comes back for one episode 

Not only do they run the most cliched plot imaginable about a deadbeat father and artsy dreamer son and the man who doesn’t get their passion but they do this basically to setup a virtue signal and reconcile sour cream and yellowtail in perhaps the worst way imaginable. In the first episode they actually share a scene.

But they don't share a scene in anyway proceeding to their actual reconciliation. All of that is cut aside just so that we can get to our cute little happy ending. This kind of ran things into the ground for me in some ways. Everybody defends moves of aborted long-term plot like this by saying that Steven Universe is more about people and characters and it is not about big plot twists and Sci-Fi Action. 

That might be true but they're doing that character and living the life stuff in a bad way as well. By not having the family reconcile but by having Yellowtail basically come around and agree because Sour Cream suddenly has a villain for Yellowtail to prove immediately better than.

  For a show that's often praised for its diversity and lack of stock archetypes this was too cliche    You see this time and again with long setup plot points whether it's the eventual return and revelation of the backstory of lapis Lazuli, the face off with the cluster, and others- That isn't to say all long-term plot points have fallen on their face but a lot of them have and it seems as if what succeeds or what gets the necessary follow-up is arbitrary and random

This isn't the usual complaint of "this is filler! where is the plot?" This happens whether it's character Focus-interaction that often feels as if it's taking forever to happen or gets bogged down in Mindless drama such as the entire relationship between Sadie and Lars to the point that Lars doesn't feel as if he has a real character until these last 7 or so episodes. 

He was basically the Grump. A cartoon stock archetype, a television stock archetype, a place talk archetype. 

You didn't have to think about why he was grumpy because there was no reason other than to make him and grumpy.  And remember this is the longest term character that's been on the show (was in the pilot) and he had a ridiculously thin characterization.

 All of this would still be bad even if he didn't have a plot line that made me cringe 

mackon, post: 36912103, member: 9256

Sure there are a lot of scenarios where the Zoo could be where it is and Pinks holdings only cover the solar system but just looking at what we have seen so far it looks like Pink administrated space covers more -shrug- How the Gempire is governed is sure to be more complex than X diamond runs this area and Y diamond runs that area anyway.

 And this just all ties it together. We get all of this stuff that's supposed to matter then push it all to the side and then come up with confrontation that's in many ways not satisfying because there's no build-up or it's just confusing or inevitably leads to more stupid questions that aren't even asked in the show.    I guess what makes this so frustrating is that the show has great set up. it does set up very well. But every time, or at least many times, when it's time for the payoff for those Domino's to go it always goes off like a bad fart. 

All of these are pointing to the same issue. . .

For some people this is the climax of The Cluster. For others It's the Return of Marty. For others it's The Search For Answers.  Some others feel disappointed because they think that there hasn't been enough queer text in the show. Others feel like characters are often push the Wayside and not given enough time to interact with the world shaking plot.  All of these are pointing to the same issue, broadly speaking. Crewniverse throws something in the air but they don't follow through. Or they passport or just suddenly resolve something with another IOU. 

The weird part is when they do this with a plot point they say that it's about the people. But Fusion Cuisine (wryyyyy) I think keeps hurting me because it's the episode that proves they don't respect people and character interaction.   

 Character interaction has to have consequences. Those consequences can be negative.  It can be positive but it has to arise and seem to follow from each other. Subtle or flagrant but the consequences of character interaction, if having dramatic focus, have to be observable and meaningful. Instead, all too often, we see artificial ways in order to create drama and then arbitrarily end or ignore it. For some people this is Stevens disturbing naivete childish behavior when he supposed to be a mid teenager. The lack of follow-up questions or the way that plot points will conveniently go off screen for months at a time only to then pop up in order to keep up interest and tease us and then come off with a lack of resolution despite lots of build up to no change or wasted opportunity.  

I think one thing that's bothering me is the reintroduction of there being some mystery to the death of Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz's crime against her. We've been here. already.  we know what the answer is supposed to be. And yet apparently there's a new mystery. 

Only I bet this new mystery is going to end up just as dissatisfying as “What is Lapis’s backstory?” or “How are we going to find Malachite?” or “How are we going to resolve The Cluster?” or “How will Beach City recover and her people deal with overwhelming change and trauma of an unnatural disaster?”

This shows up in other ways such as the not taking care of the Rubies when they have a ship. Or the fact that Homeworld keeps taking its sweet damn time in order to take care of the Crystal Gems and Earth even when it keeps on being a hostile instigator in the lives of the gems.    

And I think Fusion Cuisine is emblematic of this fault with regards to character stories and showing that statement about character over grand plots as a poor excuse. They will create a situation that literally doesn't require any crisis which won’t be treated or result as one. The family just needed basic common sense or respect, even between strangers, and then they won't follow through on the natural consequences of the family’s disrespectful lies or dangerous actions. 

And underlying this is a sense of- I don't know-  condescension or virtue signaling? On one level the Crewmiverse really do follow through on the implication that yes Steven has a queer family. On the other it feels as if they've set up the Maheshwarens as strawman that they've spent the rest of their appearance just being someone in order to goof with. I still claim this due to the fact that Dr. Maheshwaren is treated as if she's overprotective or crazy because controls her daughter media consumption; when connie lied to her (twice) regarding her experiences and activities with STeven and his family.  She lies about taking dangerous lessons from a person who partook in an assault of her daughter and has expressed bigoted opinions of her race -as in the human race- for months. This disobedience, to make Connie a fighter, is Justified because the story made Dr. Maheshwaren too damn stupid to notice not only does her daughter not wear her glasses anymore but that the three limbed candy colored being with no heartbeat is a gem Fusion and Connie saves her from it.   So the resolution is Connie NEEDS to be a sword fighter for the growing dangers of the Cluster.

 only we remove that as a valid point 

 For a show that keeps purporting being about togetherness, the cast herding and other things kind of put that as a lie. And Fusion Cuisine is an exemplary of this. It exists for a lot of reasons, but the number one thing it ends up doing is helping justify this sense of distance between humanity and the gems and completely ignoring ways in which they can come together and be understood.  Or conflict and come to resolution and understanding. So the character conflicts and development feel artificial or low stakes or superfluous and the plot and combat and Magic feels as if its always being sandbagged for these meaningless character beats.

 I think the show is going to lose me.    And I don't think there's any big thing that it can do now to convince me. It's spent so much of the goodwill and belief from its initial run and set up.  It has undermined all of it set up when it's actually gotten anywhere. I no longer trust the show to turn out to be well. At least in a way that I think will be satisfying for when they pull another “wait until you see the payoff for this” move AGAIN. And I suspect it's going to keep misfiring in ways while implying that it's so damn clever. 

There's just something incredibly artificial about Lars being captured with Steven and effectively telling all of his emotional issues that I feel like they have not been appropriately Illustrated despite multiple character Focus episodes.    And given the track record on how long it takes to actually engage with plot points or how they can be unsatisfying-ly resolved and then put out the way until they are unsatisfying-ly resolved is also bothersome. 

I was kind of okay with the end of The Cluster but I also understand how that could frustrate some. But one way that I can agree it was bad is we effectively spend all this time setting up the end of the world and the resolution of The Cluster basically put it out of mind and hasn't been Revisited or had any further effect.  The only lasting consequence has been the Turning of Peridot.[and according to some that’s been flattened to irrelevance too] 

So that meant that The Cluster basically existed so that that way we would have something in order for Peridot to oppose to justify her becoming a good person. Which reminds me of how they handled Marty and Sour Cream and Yellowtail and so I'm really really uncomfortable about them trying to go “oh, we're going to be all about character don't be all about the magical Destiny b*******.” only characters remain thin and ignorant and nothing but potential fodder

  Maybe I'm just in a really nasty mood[edit- looking back I was]. But I will say this; I think after this much time the show has set up its relationship with the audience and I think it's made me distrustful and doubtful of its reliability. I don't want any more promotional material. I don't want any more interviews covering for stuff not in the show. I don't want any more teases. I want an actual story executed on the screen in a satisfying manner.    And honestly I think what with the relative Circle walking season 4 and the reintroduction of more complications about mysteries about Rose and more drama about Steven feeling sad and more “Steven is going to have to introduce Humanity to this alien-person” as his own life seems as divorced from Human Experience as possible. 

The artifice of the show is coming out. It's much like how some can't take Game of Thrones seriously anymore. It makes sense to kill off the characters that they have killed off but there's no more emotional investment and we’re getting more and more sense that all of this is a bunch of Sensational nonsense.

[periidote]

LONG and really personal rant

i really like pokemon. like. REALLY like pokemon. i get the criticism of the games and the franchise but honestly? i just really like it anyway. there’s a lot of strategy that goes into battling that anyone of any age can enjoy. i watch the pokemon battling championships like a person would watch sports. also the pokemon are really cute...

but the biggest thing is that pokemon is mine. pokemon is a part of who i am. my 300 (or 500 idk) hours on alpha sapphire is something i am very proud of. completing both the national pokedex with every single pokemon (except volcanion) in oras and the alolan pokedex in moon is one of my greatest achievements. 

there’s always these gatekeeper monuments in a fandom. “u must have watched x seasons to be considered a real fan” “u must have known x random things to be a good fan”. pokemon has some gatekeeper stuff, like u are put into a category depending on the first game u played. but i “pass” all these things so i’m fine.

the thing is. pokemon is my thing. it’s a fandom i can always go back on. and that’s a big deal to me. there are so many things that i can be considered “not a real fan” of. i’m not high enough level on overwatch, i watched star wars too late, i don’t watch steven universe the second it airs. i always feel like an outsider for these things. but not for pokemon. it’s my thing. 

one of my other things was a manga i had found in 7th grade or so called kagerou project. it was based off a series of vocaloid songs, and vocaloid was a huge part of my life back then. i read the manga and then watched the anime as it came out. i showed it to my friends and i loved it. it was a combination of everything i was. 

but recently i feel like it’s not mine anymore. i feel like an outsider again. one of my friends recently got very into it again. they draw the characters all the time, they know all the lore, and they talk to their friends about it constantly, rping it all the time. they talk about it so much i’ve been driven out of something i once considered my favorite thing. 

plus they always talk about it with other friends. like other friends. friends that no one else in the friend group is friends with. they aren’t our friends, they’re their friends. and there’s a lot of them. there’s like ten people that my friend talks about constantly. they talk constantly about their other friend group. i don’t know about my other friends but this is starting to get to me.

i’m all for having pride in your friends and loving them but. just. i don’t know??? it’s beginning to hurt when the talk constantly about these people they love. i feel. like. left out. there’s been a lot happening lately that i feel like they’ve left me out of. it’s not on purpose like some other friends i had but it’s still getting to me.

i was raised by my mom mostly who had a strict set of rules on how to deal with people and be social. she had very strict rules on how to make small talk and talk to friends and what you can and can’t say. whenever i have friends over she has very strict rules of how i must ask them at least once an hour if they would like food or drinks, i must always be the one that does any work of setting up or something.

there were also a lot of rules on what you can and can’t say to friends. you can’t talk about events to something if that person did not come and other friends had (i’ve broken this rule a few times and i feel bad every time i do it), you can never ask for someone to stop talking about something or change the topic no matter what, you can’t make the conversation about yourself, you must always ask questions about the other people, never share your opinions or thoughts unless asked or if they are part of the conversation. 

usually my friends follow these rules and when they break them i don’t really care. they weren’t raised with them. but there are a few rules that i think people really should know. like the “you can’t talk about events to something if that person did not come and other friends did” rule means a lot to me. i know firsthand how it feels to be excluded, and talking about things that you did with friends but not the friend you’re talking about is shoving it in their face that they weren’t included. like i get telling someone about an event they couldn’t go to (telling someone about a party they were too sick to go to), but talking about how you got together with another friend or group of friends and how fun it was is a bit rude. you’re telling them how fun life was without them. and never put the “you should have been there” or “why didn’t you come?” if they weren’t invited. 

and that’s what i feel my friend is doing. i hear about all these stories and it’s like “look how great these people are and how fun it is without you”. i know that’s not the meaning but it gets to me. 

and there’s also the fact that they relay everything relatively funny that happened in the rp to the point of it being very annoying. 

i’m really sorry i know this is selfish to think this way but idk

[beatlenumber9]

My thoughts on the movie Split (as well as the outrage it’s seemed to have generated). *SLIGHT SPOILERS*

So, I saw the new Shyamalan movie, Split last night. When I first saw the trailer months ago, it peaked my interest, but also worried me. I thought the premise sounded interesting; a man who suffers from DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) has 23 different personalities, and one of them kidnaps a group of girls. But what worried me was how they were going to portray the real mental illness that is DID. I wasn’t just worried that they would portray the mentally ill antagonist as a mindless cold-blooded murderer and nothing more, but was also worried how accurately they were going to represent DID.

But I was still curious and, because I work at a movie theater, I get to see movies for free, so I decided to check it out. I figured if it was bad or offensive, at least I didn’t financially support it. I went in kind of expecting the worst, considering it’s Shyamalan. I was expecting an interesting idea and story, held back by a problematic portrayal of a real disorder. But I got something very different. I’m not sure if I “loved” it exactly, but it’s definitely not the “demonizing of people with DID” movie that everyone on Tumblr has already labeled it as.

Here’s the thing, the trailers and other advertising are very misleading, and I think purposefully so. The only scenes they really show are those that happen within the first 30 minutes of the movie. In the first half of the movie it does seem like James McAvoy’s character is in fact suffering from DID. I could be wrong because I don’t suffer from DID, but from what I’ve read on the illness, they portray it relatively accurately. Similarly to how I feel they portrayed high-functioning autism in The Accountant. Each of the personalities we see has their own age, sex, and manner of speaking and body language. But we also see other symptoms associated with DID, like anxiety, mood swings, and compulsive behavior.

But as I said before, at the beginning it seems like he’s suffering from DID, but as the movie goes on, you see that it’s something else entirely. Essentially, he suffers from a fictional disorder, it’s basically like if DID, or any mental illness could some how mutate into something worse, which obviously can’t happen in real life. And that, I think is one of the signs that this is not trying to “demonize” mentally ill people, or people with DID, specifically. The movie knows that it’s fictional, and doesn’t claim to be real or a representation of something a person with DID, or mental illness in general, could do. It’s obvious that as the plot unfolds we can see that it’s not something that can happen in reality. And it’s not like M. Night’s other movie The Happening where it’s pretty much treating the ridiculous plot like it’s totally something that could actually happen.

The other reason I feel it’s not trying to demonize mentally ill people is that it does try to get the audience to sympathize with James McAvoy’s character. In fact we probably spend just as much time, if not more, with his character as we do with Anya Taylor-Joy’s character, who we see also seems to be suffering from some sort of mental illness (not DID). We learn more about McAvoy’s character, about his past, and about why these personalities might have formed. I really appreciated that it showed these two characters as actual people, and not just a bunch of sociopathic nut-jobs.

This movie is not something like The Visit (I still like that movie), that’s very grounded in reality, so you could make the claim that it might be exploiting the elderly or mentally ill people. This movie is very unexpectedly a science fiction story in addition to being a suspenseful thriller. 

The movie is genuinely very suspenseful, with a story I didn’t always know where it was going. 

I also like that they didn’t make the three kidnapped girls dumbasses in distress. They don’t just sit around looking terrified and wait to die. They actively try and think of ways to escape and try to learn more about the different personalities.

I also have to really give credit to James McAvoy, he has to essentially play 9 characters, and I think he pulls it off. He’s not just wearing different clothes and talking with different voices, but he’ll have different body languages specific to certain personalities. He’ll move his lips or parts of his face in different ways when he talks.

The last third act of the movie, while pretty ridiculous in retrospect, was so intense that I was willing to buy the unreal reality it was presenting.

But I do have some problems with the movie. The major one being that although the movie says that McAvoy’s character has 23 different personalities, we really only see 9 in the movie. I don’t exactly know why they didn’t just say he has 9 personalities. If you don’t show the other 14, there’s really no point for you to say that they’re there.

Another one is that we’re spoon fed pieces of Anya Taylor-Joy’s backstory as to why she acts the way she does. It will often cut to scenes from her childhood, which some are only a few seconds long. And it cuts to them seemingly at random, without warning. I mean, you know they’re building up to something, but I feel like they could have revealed it gradually in a better way.

Another problem I have is with the Psychiatrist character. I was really worried she was going to end up being another antagonist who willingly makes McAvoy’s condition worse, but thankfully that’s not the route they took. But I still have an issue with how not entirely observant she seems. It’s like, there are moments in the movie where she can clearly see that something is going wrong with McAvoy’s personalities, but she doesn’t pursue it as much as she really should until it’s kind of too late.

Some of the dialogue is a little awkward too, it is a Shyamalan movie after all. It’s never laughably bad like with The Happening, but some of it is still random and just like, “Why are you telling me this?”

Also, after the girls are kidnapped, we don’t really see very much being done to try and find them. All we really see is a news clip a few hours after they’re taken, but that’s really it. This makes for a few really confusing scenes, including one in which one of the girls gets their hands on a walkie talkie, with someone else on the other line. They are clearly expressing that they’re in distress, but the person on the other line doesn’t really seem to take her seriously, it’s really weird.

Another small problem I have is with the ending. I won’t give too much away, but it’s one of those endings where I feel like the writer kind of didn’t know what to have for the ending so they just kind of settled on something. The ending really just kind of leave more questions than answers, and not the good kind. I’m not exactly sure it’s trying to sequel-bait with this, but this wasn’t a very satisfying ending.

Overall, I would still say to give this movie a chance, even if you already have preconceived notions about the film. Though, I would caution people who suffer from DID who might see this movie. Some might be offended by the portrayal of their illness, but I think most would find the events that come later in the movie to be so over the top that it’s just annoying. I personally really enjoyed it, but I would totally understand if people thought it was asking a lot of them, even for a sci-fi type movie.

Final Rating: 7/10

I feel like I really have to say something about the outrage this movie has generated, but I know some people might only be hear for the review, I’ll just insert a “Keep Reading” link so this post doesn’t take up 80% of your dash. Click the link to read my very long rant.

I feel like I need to talk about the outrage that this movie seems to have caused, at least on Tumblr, no real surprise there. I’ve constantly seen people, who haven’t seen the movie mind you, saying that it’s just another movie that demonizes mentally ill people, specifically people with DID. I understand why some people would have some uneasiness about how the mental illness will be portrayed in the film, but some of the comments I’ve seen from people treat this movie like it’s some sort of documentary proclaiming that this is how DID operates, and this could totally happen to you.

I can’t help but wonder why it’s this film that’s suddenly got people raging about something like this. Because I haven’t really seen as much outrage aimed at other similar pieces of media in recent years.

I don’t remember seeing people get outraged for this reason at the first Outlast game. I mean that game takes place in a mental institution, and the people you are trying to avoid, and most of the fear factor comes from are the patients. The patients even look monstrously deformed.

I’ve never seen people get outraged about the show Bates Motel, as the character Norman Bates has a clear mental disorder, very similar to the character in Split, and he’s killed so many people over the course of the show.

I didn’t hear any similar outrage for Shyamalan’s previous movie The Visit. Where the grandparents are clearly deranged, and the main child characters are clearly not safe around them.

Ableism, like the word triggered, is a word I see tossed around often on the internet (not in the same ways, but still). I’ve seen people use it to describe something as serious as Donald Trump mocking a disabled reporter, to something ridiculously unimportant like that one Steven Universe fan artist that drew the character Rose in a slightly different style (that people harassed to the point of her attempting suicide). And now I’m seeing the word being tossed at people who go see this movie, and the actors and anyone else involved in the production of the movie. And frankly, as someone currently recovering from a mental illness, I’m sick of a word to describe a very real prejudice being thrown around so casually like this. This movie is not fucking ableism, not even close.

Ableism is a restaurant owner refusing to install a wheelchair ramp because he doesn’t want to pay the money, or because he doesn’t “believe” in giving people “special treatment.” Ableism is someone telling a person they know is suffering from Depression to “Get over it.” Ableism is what Autism Speaks does on a regular basis; constantly treating people with autism like they’re completely non-functional, and that a family’s life is 100 times harder if they have to care for a family member with autism.

Ableism is not a fictional piece of media in which a person with a disability is the antagonist. At worst, it’s most likely someone who is ignorant of why what they’re depicting might be seen as bad taste. And if they’re truly ignorant of they’re actions, and had no malicious intent, they should be educated, not blindly insulted.

I feel like giving people who seem to be apart of this “Cult of Outrage” on this site some advice. The next time you encounter someone you think is doing or saying something “offensive” and they’re clearly ignorant as to why it’s offensive, instead of relentlessly spreading information about them online saying that they’re a terrible person with “Call Out” posts, potentially ruining their life, how about you actually reach out and try to calmly educate them as to why what they did or said was wrong, so that they understand why they shouldn’t do that again? Try having a fucking conversation with them, instead of blindly labeling them as racist, sexist, ableist, etc.