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⌈ Secret Post #5967 ⌋

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Re: Inspired by 6 - drama bombs

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I don't know anything about the show, or the characters, but I'm tired of fans being super-willing to accuse other people, just like them, of being morally deficient when they don't like certain media, simply because that media had some minority in a leading role. Yes, when you're dealing with a million people on the internet, some of them are going to misrepresent their motivations when they say "I liked this" or "I didn't like this." But none of the stuff we actually enjoy talking about in depth gets discussed, when the knee-jerk reaction is to assume bad faith, based on something that could mean any number of things other than "I'm talking to a bigot!" And it seems to me that the media companies are exploiting this conversation-ending-cliché to the hilt. Because we used to discuss the quality of work a lot more than we currently are.

Also, it doesn't seem like any coincidence to me that, when a lot of people realized they don't have to rely on some American making a show or a movie with the things they wish they had more of,* the media suddenly discovered representation as a moral good. After DECADES of turning a deaf ear to academia's calls for less dehumanizing and othering of women, gays, non-whites, etc. But the fact that they're making a very half-hearted attempt compared to what already exists or we can do for ourselves would be very plain, if people weren't so defensive on their behalf.

*Competing media from non-western countries has become a lot more readily available, and writing stories and sharing them online with everyone has become much easier!

Because I don't see the media's current attempts at engaging people that they'd previously alienated and insulted as a self-sacrificing gesture, I also don't see it as something we have to be uncritically grateful for. The quality will not improve while half the audience is paying handsomely for mediocre storytelling, and loudly praising it, and everyone who says "this is not very good" will keep having a lot to poke fun at. When someone who is not invested in the principle of watching media for altruistic reasons tries something and then decides the only reason people were fawning over it was because they like the idea of the protagonist being a woman, or whatever, they have a perfectly rational reason, in the future, to wonder if the self-described lefties are lying to them. That's a problem.

When I got into fanfiction, no one had to tell me I should read books written by women, ever again. I was convinced, and there is no going back from what a revelation that was. And I didn't have to convince any of my peers that this writing was electrifying, they found it without me and went "holy FUCK, have you seen this? Wow," and read a hundred more stories in the same vein before they came up for air or sleep again. That's the quality I want in media. And it would settle whether "it's possible to tell a good story" about people who aren't straight, white, men so definitively that no one who brought that up would want anyone to remember they had. Whereas, the quality of the commercial stuff we've got just makes that stupid argument drag and drag. And not because you haven't had the right argument about why it's actually good, yet. Or enough of them. That's not the problem, here.