#honestly mostly calling him a misogynist and queerphobe lmao | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

badscienceman · 7 months

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forever annoyed by the inability to have constructive conversations involving media criticism anymore. I feel bonkers because it's like everything immediately dissolves into reactionary, all-or-nothing arguments that leave me baffled and usually uncomfortable

#personal #thinking about the person who joined the book club I'm in then got mad at the queer and/or poc members #because we were reading a book by a poc author that involved queerphobia #and when this person reached the queerphobic part she just could not engage with it at all #which obviously it's fine #you don't have to read those things #but to accuse everyone reading of excusing queerphobia because we were trying to discuss the context of when and where the book was written #despite the fact we had for like weeks been having very nuanced discussions about this author and his work #honestly mostly calling him a misogynist and queerphobe lmao #despite the fact that a woman from the same area the author was from was there discussing her experiences etc #and then the other side of this is like #you're an sjw if you discuss the implications of how poc/disabled/etc characters are treated in fiction or whatever lmaooo #obviously people don't generally say “sjw” but it's basically what they mean let's be honest #thinking about the person who got mad that I had a rule not to send certain content in a discord server #because obviously that meant I was engaging in (insert shipping discourse)#obviously it meant I disapproved and was being an sjw type #but really it was just that someone helping to mod had trauma surrounding this one specific thing #so when the mad person decided to show me who's boss by sending that content anyway they were literally doing nothing to me #but they were hurting someone else #all or nothing you're not allowed to have boundaries because if you have boundaries it's actually commentary on your stance or whatever #so annoying

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