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As someone who dips her toe in the "problematic" pool of the monstrous and monsters more often than not, there's a real dichotomy that exists between the academic understand and engagement of topics, and the social consequences surrounding thereof.

I've endlessly been told that problematic desires and media aren't themselves despicable, but rather that the manner in which we choose to engage them is the litmus test that must be examined. This, of course, ties back into discussions of negotiating, understanding, communication, and consent. Arguably when one creates that media, it's just the same - And that there's an understanding to be had from the audience about what it is they're being presented with.

Nevertheless, there remain topics that one can engage with on this axis, and just by engaging with them, there will be social consequences. And to some extent I understand that. In other ways, I don't.

I wish I had a better answer, and I'm sorry I don't.

The older I get, the more I think about the war-on-subtext. Fascists asserting that art should glorify their ideas and never embrace ambiguity. Objectivists asserting that art should glorify their ideas, never embrace ambiguity, and also fascism is bad. Influencers posting videos to explain the one true interpretation of a movie. Franchises that collate all the lore and that invent multiverses so that Superman never dies or that Nelson Mandela does.
None of that changes that I'm just here. 🤔 They say, "make the art you want to see in the world", but it's not art unless other people are looking at it.