it's not like I didn't know better

[domarzione]

*makes actual tumblr post*

*within 24 hours someone replies with unnecessary comment about ideology, presumably to inform me that something I like is problematic and they are purer than me for knowing it*

It's taking far more energy than it should to not reply back with a snarky comment about the necessity of interrogating the belief system of every creative before appreciating their work. If that's how you have to function to get through life, then you be you. But I get to be me and you don't get to shame me into going along with you. 

.... and this is why I was happy six weeks away from Tumblr. Maybe it's time to revisit that. 










 

Comments

[sian1359]

You being you is one of the highlights of my on-line life. I miss the days when enjoying fandom was about being a fan and not about purity politics.

[domarzione]

I've come around to the position that being a Fandom Olds is a curse as well as a blessing. We know with the concrete certainty of firsthand experience that fannish ecumenicism is possible, but it feels like remembering what the world was like before The Great War. It wasn't perfect, but it was a simpler, happier time and we will never taste it again.