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  • Fear_and_loading [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    this is just my life.

    Now yer gettin it!

    Real ife. Right now. 2020. that shit? Dystopia fam. Now you can either roll with it or tie yerself into knots about it

    • the_river_cass [she/her]
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      what here says to you that the artist wants you to take away that this is bad? it's /just/ depiction. it's neither criticism nor endorsement. we live in a deeply transphobic society. that means that bare depiction operates as tacit endorsement - it merely reinforces the latent bigotry in society.

      dystopias are fantastic tool to critique oppression but this ain't it.

      • Fear_and_loading [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        every depiction of somethiong bad has to come with a 90 minute lecture directed at the audience to make it cool?

        It existing in this fucked up world is already criticism of the ad brh. It's like getting mad a racist poster in Bioshock infinite even tho thats where the game is set

        • the_river_cass [she/her]
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          some alternative options:

          1. don't include shitty depictions of marginalized groups. you don't have to be an asshole.
          2. criticize the shitty depiction in some way.

          I strongly recommend option 1.

          It existing in this fucked up world is already criticism of the ad brh. It’s like getting mad a racist poster in Bioshock infinite even tho thats where the game is set

          we've come full circle. settings don't arise whole cloth out of nothing. human beings choose the elements to include and those choices influence the people who consume the art. Bioshock is an example of a work that sets out to do political criticism. it's the exact opposite of 2077, which is using shitty depictions of trans people while offering no substantial criticism of that depiction.

          and don't come back with cyberpunk is criticism of capitalism - that 1. has virtually nothing to do with the elements I'm pointing to as problematic and 2. cyberpunk is being used in this work to evoke an aesthetic, NOT to criticize capitalism, in the first place. this is liberal art intended for a mass liberal audience.

          it's just lazy art and a cashgrab. it's okay to like problematic things but get the fuck out of my notifications telling me whether or not to feel grossed out by a dehumanizing depiction of my own god damned body. this shit is personal to me. death by a thousand paper cuts still leaves you dead.

          • Fear_and_loading [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            t get the fuck out of my notification

            lel. you can just ignore my responses if you want, you choose to reply m8. You choose to get mad at shit. You're choice.

            Anyway have a nice day. Try not to get mad today :^)