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Jul. 30th, 2020 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feotakahariOriginally posted in response to an argument about whether Ghosts of Tsushima supports Japanese nationalism:
I feel like there has to be a win condition. Often there’s something interesting that I think should be discussed, and there’s a way that discussion could possibly be interpreted to be racist, sexist, transphobic, etc. if you were willfully ignorant to what the story was actually saying, and then surprise surprise, someone comes along and says yes it is racist, sexist, transphobic, etc. It seems like the desired endpoint is supposed to be “never discuss anything at all if it could be possibly be interpreted badly,” and that wipes out everything from Lolita to M. Butterfly.
(The last time I brought up Lolita, I was informed that it’s pedophile porn, and I’m a “stupid [expletive]” for thinking there’s any value in it.)
I feel like there has to be a win condition. Often there’s something interesting that I think should be discussed, and there’s a way that discussion could possibly be interpreted to be racist, sexist, transphobic, etc. if you were willfully ignorant to what the story was actually saying, and then surprise surprise, someone comes along and says yes it is racist, sexist, transphobic, etc. It seems like the desired endpoint is supposed to be “never discuss anything at all if it could be possibly be interpreted badly,” and that wipes out everything from Lolita to M. Butterfly.
(The last time I brought up Lolita, I was informed that it’s pedophile porn, and I’m a “stupid [expletive]” for thinking there’s any value in it.)
