A thing I wrote about the TERF Wizard Game Discourse, pulling from my experiences as a punk fan. On “killing your idols” and still living deliciously.
Eating shit and insisting it’s good when there’s an abundance of delicious food nearby feels like such an own-goal that instead of feeling any kind of “outrage” over your media consumption habits (which have nothing to do with me otherwise), I just pity y’all.
Two other quotes from this I really like:
Artists are just people, they do shit that sucks sometimes, and you’re not under any moral obligation to sign the umpteenth “solid dude backed hard” petition or reactively financially support them anymore if they turn out to do shit that sucks. You can call this cancel culture if you want, but this is typically the tack I’ve taken over the years.
Is this fair? Shouldn’t I give an artist (writer/filmmaker/painter/actor/game developer) more of a chance? Don’t they deserve to make their case as to why they’re not shitbags? As a participant-fan, I am neither responsible for accepting their apology or interested in participating in their accountability process. It has nothing to do with me. They hurt someone else, they chose to drape themselves in fashy bullshit, they chose to act a certain way, and whether they like the social consequences or not is not my problem.
