PEOPLE. It's okay to just say you enjoyed or didn't enjoy something! You don't have to pretend all you love is politically correct ad all you dislike is politically bad!
Right? RIGHT? From a persuasive standpoint it's even a very bad idea, because it means people no longer believe you when you say XYZ about a work. I mean, if you're trying to get me to read a book and one of your arguments is that it fights back against heteronormativity and the last time you used that argument it was because a man and a woman kissed? I'm not going to believe the book is non-heteronormative.
Also, I have spent years and years and years feeling guilty about the ~quality~ of my entertainment and so now my attitude is basically FUCK THAT. It's fair enough saying why you did/didn't enjoy a work, but the moment you start implying that makes you better than people who had the opposite reaction, you start acting like an asshole.
Oh yeah, I remember that incident! It has fuckall to do with him being gay, though. I think there's a big difference between "bad stuff happens to this character because he's gay" and "bad stuff happens to this character, who is gay" and the book definitely falls into the later.
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Right? RIGHT? From a persuasive standpoint it's even a very bad idea, because it means people no longer believe you when you say XYZ about a work. I mean, if you're trying to get me to read a book and one of your arguments is that it fights back against heteronormativity and the last time you used that argument it was because a man and a woman kissed? I'm not going to believe the book is non-heteronormative.
Also, I have spent years and years and years feeling guilty about the ~quality~ of my entertainment and so now my attitude is basically FUCK THAT. It's fair enough saying why you did/didn't enjoy a work, but the moment you start implying that makes you better than people who had the opposite reaction, you start acting like an asshole.
Oh yeah, I remember that incident! It has fuckall to do with him being gay, though. I think there's a big difference between "bad stuff happens to this character because he's gay" and "bad stuff happens to this character, who is gay" and the book definitely falls into the later.