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Btw when critics say "this is fetishistic" we don't just mean, i think the author was writing this one-handed

A "fetish" can be when you fixate unduly on an object and end up worshiping the object rather than what it represents or what it's made up of, so your fixation bears no fruit

It's not really a problem if an author gets off on what they're writing, the author's feelings about a subject aren't inherently an obstacle

But treating a specific theme or topic as one-note, so that your portrayal of it is one-dimensional and unnuanced? That IS an artistic obstacle

So when we say that an author's portrayal of women is fetishistic, for example, it's that they're reduced to their sexual appeal and lack depth as characters, or only serve aesthetic or shallow emotional purposes within a given text, and THAT's the problem, not whether or not they're hot

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An excellent addition hiding in the tags

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the more i talk to extended family the more i learn that it was EXTREMELY obvious to all the adults around me as a child that something had gone horribly wrong and i needed professional help, but i guess there's some sort of prime directive thing where you can suggest to the kid's parents that the kid might need help but you can never ever ever let on to the kid that you can tell something is wrong. you just have to hold on to that until the kid becomes an adult who's able to say "so i think i experienced a lot of trauma when i was very little" and then you can say "yes, i know. i didn't know what happened but it was completely unmissable that something had." okay. thank you. that's very validating. but why did you leave me to suffer and keep feeling like there was no other explanation than that i was broken and going insane. would it really have been so bad to sit me down and go "i see you. i can't help much, but i can tell something happened and you're in a lot of pain. you deserve help and support. you're not going insane." or something. i don't know. my internal experience was mostly that i had suddenly become a bad child who couldn't seem to get anything right and was always being yelled at. maybe it would have helped if someone had said something.

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Same. I always think about Nick Hornby’s _About a Boy_ where this adult (but vapid) man has accidentally befriended a kinda sad kid and his depressed mother, and he accidentally asks the kid whether he still thinks about the day his mom attempted suicide. The kid goes, ‘of course, all the time,’ and he responds without thinking, “Fucking hell.’

the rest of the chapter he’s freaking out about how inappropriate that was, but the kid is pondering why it was so comforting to know a grownup also thought his bullshit trauma was very upsetting and worth swearing about.

I could have used a ‘fucking hell,’ or two when I was where you were. Just acknowledge me, dammit. Just don’t pretend I’m a perfectly normal four year old who no-one feels comfortable around, who’s unhappy all the time and who it isn’t possible to love or comfort.

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in my little pony universe youd go to a job interview and theyd be like so how does your cutiemark reflect your dedication to this position. And every time youd have to spew some bullshit about how your cutiemark of two tennis rackets actually means youre a team player and good at multitasking and view the market like a playing field. or whatever. and you wouldnt even get the job

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