I think we should normalize acknowledging reality. JK Rowling is a POS, Neil Gaiman is a POS, many others are POS or problematic for different reasons. A lot of products are owned by problematic companies. Some have better alternatives.
Bashing people for it is just going to make people tune you out though. Just be aware. I’m really not interested in the Harry Potter show. But the movies are a staple. If I see Tom Cruise is in a movie I get a lot less interested in it. I still like Edge of Tomorrow though.
I wanted to see Edge of Tomorrow so bad because it looked like a cool scifi movie but my wife HATES Tom Cruise as if he’d wronged her personally. Told her he dies like 100 times. I got to see it in the theater with her.
The comic is very explicitly bashing people who keep giving a bigot money when hiding behind their apparent need to consume the media. It’s a very specific problem relevant to a very slim subset of problems.
I think we should normalize acknowledging reality. JK Rowling is a POS, Neil Gaiman is a POS, many others are POS or problematic for different reasons. A lot of products are owned by problematic companies. Some have better alternatives.
Bashing people for it is just going to make people tune you out though. Just be aware. I’m really not interested in the Harry Potter show. But the movies are a staple. If I see Tom Cruise is in a movie I get a lot less interested in it. I still like Edge of Tomorrow though.
I wanted to see Edge of Tomorrow so bad because it looked like a cool scifi movie but my wife HATES Tom Cruise as if he’d wronged her personally. Told her he dies like 100 times. I got to see it in the theater with her.
It wouldn’t have been the worst thing in the world to see it alone though. With all due respect to your wife.
Oh, I would have gone alone and enjoyed it. But it was nice to share her catharsis.
What usually happens is people conflate critique of the media they consume with an attack on them as people.
That is a problem. I think there are different ways to engage with media, and consuming purely for validation is a very fucked one.
This comic is very explicitly bashing fans not the media.
The comic is very explicitly bashing people who keep giving a bigot money when hiding behind their apparent need to consume the media. It’s a very specific problem relevant to a very slim subset of problems.