Okay I mean Even if I reserve judgment re: whether bombsfall had any role in directing harassment toward her, I certainly don't think of myself as an abject rube for thinking the thesis "white rural America is fundamentally decent at its core" is a reactionary take
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Also i swa what bombsfall said snd did, AFTER she had been yelling about him and his game, and tbh i don't think anyone on this hellsite is required to stay silent when they're being misrepresented and lied about. I think proportionality is important!
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I just think maybe cishet white dudes who don't leave trans women the hell alone should be judged for it.
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idk, at what point are people allowed to speak up when someone has been shouting falsehoods about them & their work for weeks?
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Nah NitW is bad and even though Ellie feels more strongly about it than I do her analysis is broadly correct
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The big sticking point that got everyone to say she was "lying" -- "She said Mae solves the town's problems by starting a union and that never happens!" -- was itself a misrepresentation
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Ellie was referring, hyperbolically, to Mae talking about her dad getting into organizing at his job in the epilogue, which while it does not "solve everything" is clearly presented as being a glimmer of hope It is the whole tone of the epilogue that she rightly objects to
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Ellie may have been guilty to some degree of hyperbole in her criticism but her own critics were FAR MORE GUILTY She did not in fact say "You're not allowed to portray small towns without showing them to be fundamentalist fascist hellscapes"
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She did say that she finds this whole genre of bittersweet encomia to "the forgotten places of rural America" an alienating and problematic genre, one whose aesthetics often go totally unquestioned by people primed to lap that sad Bruce Springsteen Youngstown shit up And I agree
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I mean, okay, but you didn't yell about it for months and call everyone who disagrees with you about the text a fascist? Ellie, however, cannot be disagreed with in any way without treating it as a devastating personal betrayal. Which is why we're not friends anymore.
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Ellie did not continuously "yell about it for months", she wrote a Medium piece about it that attracted some noise for a few days and then sank out of view until someone discovered it and posted it in order to start a pile-on over it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
I definitely have different memories of how that all went down but i could be wrong here.
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