[ SECRET POST #6287 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6287 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not gonna consume media that makes me feel bad instead of feeling good. And bad things written by bad people make me feel ungood.

[(Anonymous)]

Idk, these types seems to consume content that makes them feel bad all the time, in the sense that it tells them things are much worse than they actually are, that everyone hates them, and that they're in constant danger.

[(Anonymous)]

"bad people"

please define.

[(Anonymous)]

It's always either "people with opinions I don't agree with" or "people bad on account of writing about bad". Often a combination of both.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Are they bad things because they're written by bad people? Are they bad people because they write bad things? How about bad things written by good people? Would good things written by bad people still make you feel "ungood"? What if you didn't know they were bad people?

[(Anonymous)]

Double plus ungood?

[(Anonymous)]

My first thought

[(Anonymous)]

I would love to know what kind of person you think the writer of Dipper Goes to Taco Bell is. Or Blood Meridian. Or the Girl Next Door. Would you immediately send them to prison, or...?

[(Anonymous)]

Antis have gotten other fans sent to jail, fired from their jobs, driven to suicide, and more and laughed about it. If anon isn't a troll, they would one hundred percent send those writers to prison.

[(Anonymous)]

Antis are shit but I’m gonna need a source for these chief.

[(Anonymous)]

This is so spot on I feel it has to be satire, but taking it in good faith... fine? Outside of any literature courses you may take, no one is going to force you to read something that makes you feel bad. If you watch TV with family or roommates, or have movie nights with friends, and someone wants to watch something that you think would make you feel bad, you have the option to either veto it and choose something else as a group or just remove yourself from the situation and not engage, and I hope that you do make those choices for yourself!

But, I would caution you to not let yourself believe that just because a piece of media makes you feel bad or uncomfortable means that it or the person who created it is bad. Now, you still do not have to engage with it. Again, outside of a class where a piece of literature is required reading or a film required viewing, no one should be pressuring you to read/watch a specific thing that you don't want to. But I see a lot of people falling into the trap of thinking that if a piece of art makes them uncomfortable, it and its creator are 'bad'-- and that people who enjoy it are also bad!-- and that's not always the case. There are pieces of squeaky-clean feel-good media made by people who have done real world harm to others, and there are horrible, uncomfortable things written by people who have done their best to always treat others with kindness. You can't always know, and you can't judge people's goodness by the art they create. Especially when many works of art that make people uncomfortable get interpreted in different ways counter to the artist's intent.

[(Anonymous)]

Some of my favorite authors from when I was a kid have since turned out to have done horrible, destructive things in RL, but their stories still helped me through a very difficult period in my life. Marion Zimmer Bradley comes to mind. Her having done awful things has changed my perception of some of the things in her Darkover books, but that doesn't change the fact that those books were very helpful to me when I was growing up.

[(Anonymous)]

Is anyone demanding that you consume media that makes you feel bad? Like, if you read a book without knowing all the details of what it contains and part way through you realize you're not enjoying it, can't you just... stop reading it?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not gonna consume media that makes me feel bad instead of feeling good.

IDK, I would much rather consume media that makes me feel bad in a good way than media that makes me feel good in a completely shallow way.

[(Anonymous)]

Well said

[(Anonymous)]

I was gonna say, yeah, I'm all for people having their personal limits of what they can and can't handle individually in their fictional preferences, everyone should be able to figure out boundaries that work for them and make them feel comfortable and all that good stuff.

At the same time, I also think that sometimes people forget that sometimes stories making one feel bad or uncomfortable is kind of the entire point - you're supposed to have that reaction, for a specific reason. I think people sometimes forget that catharsis is a thing, and confronting scary or uncomfortable things in a fictional setting can be quite beneficial and help them better understand and learn how to handle and encounter those things in real life in turn.