I am growing weary of the specific subgenre of politicized criticism that states “yes, {X} is clearly doing {Y}. But what about audiences that don’t realize it is doing {Y}? Because its intentions have not been made clear to an imagined audience i just made up, it is problematic”
It's not always imagined, though. I mean, haven't we all known dudes who clearly saw in Scorsese's gangsters something to emulate and admire, who go around quoting Goodfellas and wanting to experience some of the patriarchal glory his characters experience for themselves?
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Maybe it's the time I spent in the trenches of video game fandom as a trans woman who constantly encountered men whose ideas about what the roles of women in that space should be were clearly influenced by games and games media.
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But my lived experience tells me that there are vast swaths of people out there who are seduced by hegemonic masculinity, patriarchal violence, and misogyny in our media, even when the context in which that stuff is placed encourages some measure of thoughtfulness.
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