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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-06-07 03:55 pm

[ SECRET POST #2713 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2713 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-06-07 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
People are complicated. This is what a lot of conversations about social justice get wrong to me: they want to come to a final answer about whether or not someone is an awful woman-hating misogynist or an evil imperialist racist who we can ignore and hate and scorn and strike with whips. Moffat does a lot of bad stuff and has a lot of bad attitudes. He's also done some good stuff. It's not actually that weird for those things to coexist. It's the black-and-white attitude that makes it seems that way.

(Anonymous) 2014-06-07 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
This is basically it. It's a lot easier, and more satisfying, to see people who do problematic things or hold problematic views as being cardboard cut-out villains. But that's not how it actually works, and pretending that it does isn't actually all that helpful in the end.

(Anonymous) 2014-06-07 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.

And, beyond that, fandom seems to want everyone, especially all fictional characters, to be the exactly the same, to tick all the right SJ boxes, to be 'redeemed', regardless of the part they play in the story... It's like Hollywood's insistence on making everyone's teeth uniformly straight, but applied to personality traits.