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Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as āproblematicā in class and our professor was like, āThatās cool, but āproblematicā doesnāt really mean anything. It means that the thing youāre describing has a problem, and in and of itself thatās not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else itās not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like youāre trying to say that this is bad, but you donāt want to say ābad.ā Is that right?ā
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the ābadā thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, āIām uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.ā
Once we stopped calling things āproblematicā and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, āthatās racistā or āthatās misogynisticā or āew capitalism grossā out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, āUhhh... Iām not sure whatās so bad?ā and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I canāt help but think of this professor being like, āGood starting point, now letās get specific.ā I think when we have to commit to saying āthatās ___ā it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever weāre claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes itās art, and it should be full of problems, because thatās what art is.
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anon I want you to know that I am always thinking about this
there's always posts on here like "this is why I feel misgendered by the assumption I must be a man/masculine because I'm trans and cafab" and I'm like yes me too and they go on to be like "and this is why it's trans women's fault" and I'm like Jessie what the fuck are you talking about
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not to subtweet my job but it's pretty crazy to lay off people from your localization team the same week you have a public oopsie where your AI translation tool incorrectly subtitles someone as saying they like masturbating so much it's affecting their writing
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When people talk about all art being political (hard agree) they always talk about the content, themes, etc present within the art itself. Which obviously I get and obviously is a huge part of it. Of course. But Iām personally always struck by the politics surrounding the more metatextual elements of the art; that is, stuff like access to the tools needed for the creation of the art. I mean the literal materials of which an artpiece is made. This is a low-hanging-fruit example but Iām reminded of that Disney adult who tried to claim art isnāt inherently political by being like āI just drew a stick figure on a napkin, is that political? š¤£š¤£ā & while I think there are multiple different angles from which one could criticize this blatantly pathetic argument, I remember being really struck by like⦠the flagrant āwasteā of implicitly throwaway resources that many parts of the world just literally donāt have and/or that carry with them deeply fraught histories of capitalist labor exploitation and destruction of natural resources. Like. Napkins?? The apolitical canvas that is paper napkins?
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i think kids should get whatever they want forever life is hard enough