prettysweetprettysweet:

louisdelac:

genuinely feel like most people would have a much easier and more joyful experience engaging with media if they stopped trying to apply real life moral judgement to fictional characters. like you don’t have to excuse a character or condemn them, actually. they’re allowed to do things, and you’re allowed to examine those actions in terms of what it means to the characters and the story itself, without having to worry so hard about whether those actions are justifiable or not.

thank u @louisdelac

animentality:

harpyhormones:

again. bodily autonomy, fundamental bodily autonomy HAS to have room for people doing things with their own bodies that you do not and will not approve of. if it doesnt, it is not bodily autonomy

heich0e:

this is the realest tweet i have ever seen in my life

demongender-vibes:

athingofvikings:

tookas-have-teeth:

tookas-have-teeth:

Y’all “critical thinking” does not equal “criticism”.

I am very tired of saying positive things about characters and getting told I need to do some critical thinking (so that I’ll see the characters are actually bad). No. That’s not how that works. I already did some critical thinking and came to the conclusions that these characters are wonderful. Criticism or straight up character bashing is not more enlightened and is not how critical thinking works. “Critical thinking” is not “thinking about all the bad or problematic aspects of something.” It’s looking objectively at evidence, looking at context, recognizing and examining personal biases and assumptions, considering what assumptions and biases are being used in a given argument by other people, etc. Sometimes this process brings up criticisms, yes, but sometimes it also leads to the conclusion that something is actually good despite it being made out to be bad. 

yeah it’s really annoying how people have mistaken bashing parts of a story and inciting harassment against fans who like those aspects counts as critical thinking. vitriolic hate with no sign of lenience being offered is not critical thought.