[ SECRET POST #5042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5042 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

OK but literally NO ONE is saying that "this specific person is marginalized so their writing can not be criticized on the basis of that marginalization."

Anyone's writing can be criticized on any basis whatsoever. Critics are not being silenced.

Critics can be disagreed with, though, and often should be. For all the talk about how authors can't handle criticism, critics are often even much worse at taking dispute than authors. There are a lot of Very Online critics who think they're being "silenced," when all that's really happening is they're being disagreed with, and they can't cope with that.

[meadowphoenix]

I don't disagree with your last paragraph, but regardless, coming out is one of many options you have which is not a requirement to refute criticism and it's questionable to therefore call it forced nor does the lack of coming out to refute criticism undermine the point of #ownvoices

[(Anonymous)]

How about we just don't do facile criticism based on an ignorant guess of what we think the author's identity might be? If we don't do that, then it won't force authors to come out, in situations where they might be unsafe, just to defend their work and their lives and their "right" to write a fictional story.

[meadowphoenix]

while considering that I don't think that it's force in such a situation since I don't think that's a great way to confront criticism, and considering that like "i hate men" it's very much possible to understand the social underpinnings of statements go beyond a literal reading, I can't agree.

[(Anonymous)]

Different anon. Uh no. "I hate men", or any other vague, vast group, is always a bigoted statement. Doesn't matter if the person means it literally or not.

[meadowphoenix]

lol