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I’ve figured out my problem with the whole representation debate. It feels so capitalist. It’s taken for granted that buying the product, a book about gay people, actually does something to help gay people aside from the author. Or that buying a competing product means you don’t support the movement. If there’s any kind of moral imperative, I’m pretty sure it’s not about commodities.

I’m still playing Lobotomy Corporation

CENSORED: the monster's name, and also everything you'll say after attempting to deal with it.

Originally posted in response to an argument about representation

I don’t know how to do this without people saying I’m putting words in their mouths. I don’t see the chain of logic that led from point A to point B, so I say what I mean in the hopes that I’ll clarify the situation. Then they take that to mean I think I’m contradicting something they didn’t actually say, and they didn’t mean that, they meant something else entirely! Only they don’t actually specify what that something else entirely WAS, so I still don’t know what they meant. Then I try to further lay out what I meant, and they still think I’m contradicting some DIFFERENT thing they didn’t actually say. And this keeps happening over and over, and I never find out what they actually meant!