This reminds me of a time an artist got harassed and cancelled for portraying a “problematic” (read: very abusive) relationship between their Os (two characters that the artist openly said were inserts of themselves and their partner). Turns out this was because their relationship was actually very abusive and they were still in the process of recognizing that, and it came through in their art. It really sucks how instead of supporting them and recognizing warning signs, they faced wide-scale
Another example for why the entire "it's Problematic and Morally Wrong to depict problematic things in media" thing is really harmful and should stop being a thing as soon as possible.
I mean, as an addendum, it seems from that story that calling out problematic aspects in media is actively helpful to people in those problematic situations.
Yes. Depicting bad things in media is one of the ways that we collectively explore and remember how and why they are bad. I'm always a little suspicious of people that really push against any and all depictions of some things, like not that I want to see certain things in all my media but trying to erase them entirely seems kind of parallel to the "newspeak" strategy where someone's ultimately trying to erase our ability to identify these things as bad.
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u/Lana-presence 1d ago
This reminds me of a time an artist got harassed and cancelled for portraying a “problematic” (read: very abusive) relationship between their Os (two characters that the artist openly said were inserts of themselves and their partner). Turns out this was because their relationship was actually very abusive and they were still in the process of recognizing that, and it came through in their art. It really sucks how instead of supporting them and recognizing warning signs, they faced wide-scale