I would like to apologize for the shit that I’ve given you in the past about Treat Enjoyers.
Thank you.
I would also like to apologize for being more incendiary back then and not picking my fights more carefully. It's why I personally haven't said the t-word in that context for over half a year and counting. It's just not worth further provoking already toxic fans of lib/fash propaganda that they happen to be entertained by and therefore they refuse to believe that their entertainment contains propaganda.
As I've said for a very long time, it's possible to acknowledge propaganda in things that entertain us and accept that people can be affected by such propaganda. My problem is with tribalistic bullshit where the moral character, personal status, and even the sanity of the critic is challenged by a toxic fan.
I really wish there was a block function on this site, because it's always the same small handful of very left leftists that tend to have radioactive takes in other subjects that can be summarized as "fuck you, got mine." :grillman:
I agree. I like some anime that have bad things, I just don't kid myself about the bad things. Hell, I have been meaning to get into Berserk for a long time knowing full well about the bad parts (because Griffith seems interesting and the art is incredible), I've just bounced off it because the series started when the author, Miura, was very young and so it was a bit grimdark in just the way you understandably dislike (and I find boring). I hear it gets better later on and Miura even does a lengthy prequel arc to make the grimdark part a bit more compelling because it establishes characters and motivations leading in to it.
Dune is full of gender essentialist bullshit and its main plot thread is directly based on Great Man Theory (even if ostensibly as a cautionary tale instead of praising it but good luck getting that across to Paul/Leto II stans) and there's a lot of deeply baked in misogyny and orientalism (which gets worse under Frank's son, who I refuse to read from), but it's still my favorite literature of all time.
If I wanted to be a toxic fan like the few featured in this thread I would make lots of Thermian Argument excuses for how actually in the fiction feeemales are hardwired for specific roles and have specific limitations and so on and I'd do a lot of concern trolling, insults, and childish eyerolling emojis because that'd protect me from feeling bad about what I consume. :frothingfash:
Thank you.
I would also like to apologize for being more incendiary back then and not picking my fights more carefully. It's why I personally haven't said the t-word in that context for over half a year and counting. It's just not worth further provoking already toxic fans of lib/fash propaganda that they happen to be entertained by and therefore they refuse to believe that their entertainment contains propaganda.
As I've said for a very long time, it's possible to acknowledge propaganda in things that entertain us and accept that people can be affected by such propaganda. My problem is with tribalistic bullshit where the moral character, personal status, and even the sanity of the critic is challenged by a toxic fan.
I really wish there was a block function on this site, because it's always the same small handful of very left leftists that tend to have radioactive takes in other subjects that can be summarized as "fuck you, got mine." :grillman:
I agree. I like some anime that have bad things, I just don't kid myself about the bad things. Hell, I have been meaning to get into Berserk for a long time knowing full well about the bad parts (because Griffith seems interesting and the art is incredible), I've just bounced off it because the series started when the author, Miura, was very young and so it was a bit grimdark in just the way you understandably dislike (and I find boring). I hear it gets better later on and Miura even does a lengthy prequel arc to make the grimdark part a bit more compelling because it establishes characters and motivations leading in to it.
Dune is full of gender essentialist bullshit and its main plot thread is directly based on Great Man Theory (even if ostensibly as a cautionary tale instead of praising it but good luck getting that across to Paul/Leto II stans) and there's a lot of deeply baked in misogyny and orientalism (which gets worse under Frank's son, who I refuse to read from), but it's still my favorite literature of all time.
If I wanted to be a toxic fan like the few featured in this thread I would make lots of Thermian Argument excuses for how actually in the fiction feeemales are hardwired for specific roles and have specific limitations and so on and I'd do a lot of concern trolling, insults, and childish eyerolling emojis because that'd protect me from feeling bad about what I consume. :frothingfash: