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Whenever I see people discoursing online about how all fiction must model good behavior and explicitly state that any bad behavior depicted is wrong, lest someone in the audience mistake it for “glorifying,” all I can think of is that line from Arrested Development where Buster, in his mid-30s, objects to something by saying “that’s not the way mother is raising me”

Like yeah maybe YA books and kids’ cartoons have a responsibility to demonstrate the difference between Right and Wrong, since the audience is, like, actual children, but if you’re consuming literally anything more advanced than Disney XD’s Ducktales, you should absolutely be expected to bring your own moral framework from home and not need your media to spoon-feed morality to you

if you see a show about a a man manufacturing and selling methamphetamine while abusing his wife and murdering people and you can’t tell whether the author intends for you to think his actions are right or wrong? That might be more your problem than the text’s. You might just, at that point, be an idiot.

[banging on the notes of this post with a broomstick from below] yo shut the fuck up in there

I mean yeah it should be like that, but we love in a world where characters Tayler Durden (Fight Club), the Joker, or Rorschach (Watchmen) are considered the heros and whose behavior is glorified by full grown adults (mostly males) so…

Soooo those people did a piss poor job reading the text and should be responsible for how bad they are at reading. In all three of those cases the writers have done their job of clearly demonstrating who the villain is incredibly well and those people have chosen to misinterpret them as heroes anyway. Why should the writers be held responsible for the bad choices of anyone who picks up their book and ignores what’s actually in it in favor of the version of the book they made up in their head?

04 February 2021   ♦   57,865 notes
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