also a million other characters, but i saw someone arguing silence of the lambs wasn’t transphobic the other day so that’s on my mind

  • yoink [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    good will arguments are always such a privileged take to me

    like, its incredibly important that we don’t judge the creator for the results of their work for some reason? like there’s this great need to make sure no one has the wrong idea about this particular person who just so happens to be more relatable to the commenter than the groups affected by their work? i genuinely don’t understand the motivation behind arguments like that other than because you want to re-assure yourself that if, in the future, you end up offending somebody or furthering the hurt of a minority group, you can wash your hands by saying you didn’t intend it

      • Cromalin [she/her]@hexbear.netOPMEnglish
        21·
        9 months ago

        no one has argued we should beat the author to death, and in fact you were the one who started defending his honor. i don’t know why you’re acting like we tried to cancel him. the final product is incredibly transphobic regardless of intent and quibbling about whether the author is a transphobic piece of shit or not (he was! it was the 80s, lots of people were!) is ignoring the actual issue at hand, which is the material harm caused by the book and its adaptation

          • Cromalin [she/her]@hexbear.netOPMEnglish
            24·
            9 months ago

            you started off by saying “oh in the original book the author said he wasn’t trans”, then acknowledged “now his character might still be detrimental to the perception of trans people,” but still only say it MIGHT cause problems and follow it up by further defending the author. you then ignore everyone talking about how buffalo bill not being trans doesn’t make it better and continue to defend the author despite the fact that you’re the only one who cares about the author

            regardless of your intent all you’re doing is defending transphobia. just admit it’s transphobic and move on! it’s a 36 year old book, it doesn’t matter! stop trying to defend it when that’s exactly what the original post was about!!!