The way low density and isolation fundamentally rob human beings of *freedom of choice*, that they enable petty tyranny -- every man's home is his castle, and therefore every man a tinpot dictator over his household
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Something that, in theory, is the whole thing NitW is about -- the bittersweetness of being lost and alone and forgotten etc etc -- but that Ellie is right to be angry about because the game very much *does* softpedal the issue
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I am completely on board with her hobbyhorse about how a twisted consequence of "diversity mandates" in casting and the uwu Internet culture of saying "portraying trauma is causing trauma" is a whitewashing of what society is still actually like
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I'll say that she (and other people with this complaint) has no apparent awareness that the things that get the big bucks are the trauma porn. This remains true across most if not all creative industries.
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yeah, not real happy with my performance in the last iteration of this topic because it went in weird directions and I wound up arguing from a position I didn't interrogate well, though people grandstanding to me in my mentions about the AIDS crisis and then sulking off was wild
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @benjanun_s and
fwiw I had been moderating an ask-lgbt account on Tumblr for a minute and got deluged with angry calls from the rainbow cops for my cancellation because I said that policing BYG from OwnVoices writers was a form of silencing and I've still got a chip on my shoulder about it
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @benjanun_s and
honestly what I'm realizing is that while I'm personally disgusted by cishet writers making porn of my trauma for a *cishet* audience, as long as they're making porn of my trauma for *me*, I will lap that right the hell up Figuring out how to navigate that ideologically is a WIP
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Yeah this seems to be a theme in why, in the current environment of 2020, lots of people are heaping praise on Bit for successfully doing a movie about a trans person that speaks to trans trauma "in code", that *never once* says the word "trans" or "transition" onscreen
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
It may well be that in 20 years the tide will turn on this and people will call this a cowardly writing decision and say that this makes the film feel awkward and alienating to them I dunno, you can't predict these things, it's how the culture goes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I mean to be clear while there were a lot of people within the community who disliked, say, Rent when it came out (and were often accused of crab-bucket-style envy for it) it would've been hard to imagine at that time that *this many people* would backlash against it so hard
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Likely because, yes, times change, and putting a trans sex worker onstage in a sympathetic light at all felt like a way bigger deal in 1996 than it did now, and all the things Rent doesn't do are things much of the audience never considered asking anyone to do
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Like it seems bizarre now but at the time "portraying HIV-positive people onstage in a positive light" was a big deal, conservatives flipped the fuck out over it, it was "controversial"
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