"EVERY DAY I don't fly through the country crushing the skull of every bigoted, selfish, abusive, bullying fuckface I see, they should give me a medal Every scumbag on this planet gets away with their petty little sins because they're NOT AFRAID OF ME, and THEY SHOULD BE"
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And it's like yeah Having seen it and felt it from her perspective, I can't *hate* her But it's... not okay This situation shouldn't happen It's wrong to put the responsibility for not hurting people on the shoulders of someone already so burdened
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I cannot actually sympathize with Roman Polanski for being so traumatized and sad he raped children I can, however, say that, trying to look at it from the POV of his own welfare -- it was a bad thing for him to carry the weight of so much loss *and* so much power at once
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To be lauded and celebrated as a filmmaker such that he made his living and affirmed his own worth based on how deeply he could dwell in his own pain To have immense amounts of money and fame and the ability to fly to another country to escape consequences
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It is obvious that not only would his victims be better off but also he would be better off if he hadn't had power (Even continuing to live a life of luxury and celebrity as he does, he wouldn't be racked with guilt and constantly looking over his shoulder as he obviously is)
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It's just, you know How do you go around judging people before they've actually done anything saying "Well it's not a good idea to let you have too much power" Who judges, who gets to take that power away, and how can we trust them not to keep it for themselves
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It's kaleidoscopic, right, like everyone right now is talking about how fucked up Sia's relationship with Maddie Ziegler is and how fucked it is that people let it go on for so long, but Sia herself says she's a survivor of abusive relationships and her art was her way of coping
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Before Sia shat the bed with her latest movie and made everyone double-take like "She's been doing this kind of shit with this girl since she was HOW old?", if you were the one standing in the way of her making her art with her muse everyone would call you the asshole
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All the other progressive academics circling around Avital Ronell saying that her unique way of working with her students was a form of queer feminist liberation, before her advisee gave a full accounting of how invasive and fucked up their relationship was
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Like I think this is a deep dark thing at the heart of how we look at art and creativity I did a thread before on how this is the message of the fucking Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie with Gene Wilder
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Charlie wins the game at the end because he understands that as abusive and unfair and tyrannical as Willy Wonka is, the Chocolate Factory is beautiful, it brings countless people joy, it's TOO IMPORTANT to let it be destroyed over his own grievance
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It's a choice people make all the fucking time Probably way more of the Great Artists and Great Works that make up our culture wouldn't exist than we're willing to admit, if everyone stood up for their rights
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It's a stereotypical way creative men leech off of women, but it's by no means a special power only men have And, like WandaVision is about it not being an easy question to answer
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The easy way out is to just say "Well fuck you, your pain isn't real, the very fact that you have power and privilege means this is just narcissistic wank and you can be dismissed" It's a very common response nowadays when a celebrity faces a "reckoning"
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But like WandaVision doesn't let you have that out The pain *is* real, and the suffering *is* real, and the power is *powered by the suffering* The citizens of Westview suffer precisely because her grief is so strong, because its echoing constant reality binds them to her
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And Westview *is* a beautiful thing, something that watchers like Darcy get "invested" in The twin boys and the false Vision are real within the Hex, and alive, and worthy of life in their own terms, and to give up the Hex is to sacrifice them
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The big moral question is whether it's worth it to keep on abusing and using and sucking the life out of the background NPCs to keep Westview going And of course the answer is no Of course it's an atrocity that must stop, no question But *actually doing it is fucking hard*
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They were trying to get at that with the last scene but ultimately I think, especially with the constraints that still being in the MCU put on them, they didn't have the range It's a tough fucking thing to try to confront and stay on that tightrope
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So much easier to fall on one side of the tightrope ("Wanda's a fucking monster and the Hex has no value, bullet through the head now") or the other ("It was a false choice and everyone calling Wanda a monster was a liar, the Hex can and should live on without harming anyone")
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(Lol okay if you want an obscure artsy reference to make you feel better than the MCU plebs -- This is essentially the final choice between the Bachelor's ending of saving the Polyhedron and the Haruspex's ending of saving the town in Pathologic)
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(And the Changeling's magical third option of saving both has a much darker cost in the end than either of the original two terrible choices)
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