LOL WUTappropriating poverty for accolades is disgusting & i don’t know why we don’t talk about this more.

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 14 insightful - 6 fun14 insightful - 5 fun15 insightful - 6 fun -  (2 children)

Trans flag or pronouns in profile mean you just ignore them. It’s like people giving themselves a content warning for everyone else’s benefit.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 10 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

It's a great sign that the person is afflicted with perpetual asshole syndrome and unable to enjoy anything without being overtly critical of it. Unless it's LGBTQ focused media where it's automatically good regardless of quality. Make a complaint that the characters seem to just be projections of the writers own familial struggles and the plot is akin to wish fulfillment and an internal monologue of what the writers wish they had said in a world where everyone agrees with them rather than anything that resembles a normal plot and you'll get labeled a cinema-phobe.

[–]BenitoGreen99 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Don't forget anime profile pic

[–]fuck_redditThou/Thee/Thy 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

How do they know the authors didn’t do their “due diligence”?

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

They must have firsthand knowledge of the authors' history of failure in properly vetting corporate mergers and acquisitions. I'm not sure why else they'd pick that (very niche) legal term. I wouldn't think they'd just use it as a fancy-sounding synonym for "duty" or "job." You'd have to be a real fucking loser to go around talking like that.

[–]LyingSpirit472 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Well, you see...it's not them, personally, therefore they are obviously evil.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You find out by reading it and seeing if it's fucked up or accurate.

But the wokescolds want to stop people reading things by those they don't like and don't want get exposed to contrary opinions themselves so they can't do that.

They have to demand people list off their identities, credentials and, most importantly, victimhood.

Look at American Dirt, liked by pretty much everyone who bothered to read it but viciously hated by woke people who'd only read about it on social media because the author was the wrong type of person.

[–]The_Best_Yak_Ever 8 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

That’s not what due diligence means. It never meant what you are claiming. You are a blight on human intelligence and drag the average range of cognitive functioning deep into the dark depths of idiocy. They/them (she) should be as ashamed of herself as her parents are.

[–]FlyingKangaroo 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Appropriating poverty is worse when wannabe activists proclaim they’re poor because they can’t pay the rent (but can somehow spend money on many fandom gadgets and pride stuff) and organize crowdfunding, which was normally seen before as a way to help people with real problems or illnesses or people making creative projects they can’t fully afford yet.

Or the cyclical “it’s time to pay the queer folks because you’re straight” etc. E-begging basically.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

So basically they want to make the writing of fiction illegal. Acting as well.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Zoomers - wen get mah authentithity?

[–]GrilledTofuIdentifying as a block of tofu[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Surprisingly many people actually wanted the death of art in the comments

[–]Adventurous_Ad6212 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Serious talk here. How do they know the authors have never struggled financially?. They don't know what the authors life was like. How can they ascertain that at the very least the authors were never poverty stricken college students. For instance I myself while coming from a well off upper middle class family have lived in extreme poverty when living on my own to the point where I could not afford food and would go to sleep hungry 3 - 4 times a week. So please tell me does the fact I had it good growing up mean that any hardships I faced were irrelevant and that I cant understand the feeling of financial destitution?. You wanna know what's fucking hilarious? you know what being too poor to afford food taught me? It taught me in order to succeed I need to bust my ass and work extra hours/longer hours so that I could not just eat but also have excess cash. It taught me that you cant rely on someone else to constantly bail you but instead you put on your big xoy pants and grow the fuck up, get a fucking job no matter how menial the work is and miserable it makes you and start working your way up to something better.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

muh prilvilege

[–]jet199 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Middle comment is both funny and right.

OP is painting themselves as both humourless and bigoted.

[–]Newzok 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Do people not understand creativity?

[–]Femaleisnthateful 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Or empathy

[–]Newzok 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wonder if it's an autism thing or a being a teenager thing. These people are kids.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well no, a lot of them don't have access to that.

[–]KaijuJayTheSecond 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Deleted this earlier due to not being entirely relevant to this specific situation, (I misread something) but I decided to re-comment anyway.

I don't understand this attitude towards writing.

First of all: How are we supposed to write anything under such rules? Where is the line drawn and for who? That approach destroys just about every word of nearly every fiction ever written.

Second, and most importantly: One of the most powerful parts of the art of writing is empathy. Being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Many people's shoes, in fact. The idea of avoiding unfamiliar perspectives out of 'respect' or whatever can only serve to harm people's knowledge and artistic range, and deny them the ability to learn god knows how many things. I'm passionate about this topic and (mostly plan to) write characters from all over the world with a whole range of experiences, perspectives and personalities.

Third of all: Understanding another's perspective and experiences is not this unfathomable ability that only few have. It's not rocket science, it's humanity.

[–]GrilledTofuIdentifying as a block of tofu[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't get it either. According to this logic, you can never write a 1000 year old elf. And some people actually support that which is incredibly stupid.

Third of all: Understanding another's perspective and experiences is not this unfathomable ability that only few have. It's not rocket science, it's humanity.

Considering how sociopathic these twitter fellows are, I won't be surprised that it's an unfathomable ability in their perspective.

[–]alladd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

whenever you see shit like this it's a failed writer masking their jealousy at a particular person with a vague critique of similar writing.

[–]JasonCarswellSisyphus / Ouroboros 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

As a Palestinian Black Lesbian Dwarf, I think that people who want to exploit other people's identity first need to assume that identity, obviously, before they can properly exploit it with authenticity.

[–]alladd 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

if you write a good book, it's a good book.

if you don't, it's not.

if you're rich and yet empathic enough to portray a half-believable account of having less, good on you. nice skills. you writer, you.

fucking simple.

[–]handbananasrevenge 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Our entire society now revolves around managing the feelings of emotionally stunted retards.

[–]handbananasrevenge 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I love how some of the most hive minded, intellectually lazy people on the planet will use the phrase “due diligence” without a hint of irony.