Hypocrisy pisses me off
Nov. 16th, 2025 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamuzzy Ultimately I hate this hypocritical attitude that fandom believes whatever the author puts on paper is not the representation of their IRL belief system. UNLESS it's something the fandom hates. Then it's suddenly a manifesto.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2025-11-19 06:29 am (UTC)Morality theatre is really a good way to put it. I know that from time to time there is this re-emerging moral panic and it will pass eventually (hopefully...). Just experiencing it is truly devastating and demoralizing.
It's interesting because lately I had a chance to acquire an edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray which also includes detailed author notes and sidenotes, and they described this exact phenomenon: people believed that what writer put on paper is equivalent of desires and intents, therefore art can be used against the artist in court as an evidence of crime. And that was in the 19th century. It's insane how history is always seem to repeating itself.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2025-11-19 08:34 am (UTC)It's okay. I've had readers flip out over a character saying something nice or respectful, just because when people said that to them it was manipulative or abusive.
>>Morality theatre is really a good way to put it. <<
Yeah, it's not about being good, it's about being seen as good. They care about appearances, not substance. That's a problem.
>>I know that from time to time there is this re-emerging moral panic and it will pass eventually (hopefully...). Just experiencing it is truly devastating and demoralizing.<<
People flail a lot. Often it's because they don't actually have a moral code or undestand how ethics work. I know some people care a lot about what others think, but I just can't be arsed, especially when it's this dumb.
>> people believed that what writer put on paper is equivalent of desires and intents, therefore art can be used against the artist in court as an evidence of crime. And that was in the 19th century. It's insane how history is always seem to repeating itself.<<
History repeats itself because most people don't do their homework. But if you study history, you see the patterns, you learn to recognize them unfolding in real time -- it becomes easy to predict a lot of what will happen. Which is damn depressing.