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[Steven Snell]

Meanwhile Bridie appears -

I'm mixed on this.
On one hand, I'm a Steven Universe fan, i discovered it during the pandemic and it was one of the big things that helped me start trying to understand other people better (I'm autistic and thus developmentally disabled so it did what it's supposed to do for people who are roughly ~10). I just think it's a nice show about different forms of love and the work that goes into all kinds of relationships, and also a show about being nice to people and trying to help them get over their problems, and later letting them help you with your problems (Future got really relatable). A sizeable amount of people online are convinced that Steven Universe is a bad amoral show because it "defends colonisers" or whatever just because it showed that the Diamonds weren't completely evil (they are still bad people who hurt a lot of people and who wanted to take over the universe), and they also hate it because certain characters are "toxic" one of which being a woman with PTSD who is struggling to understand her place in the world after centuries of trauma. These people are fucking ridiculous.

However, I do find that certain moral reasons can affect my enjoyment of things. I'm trans and outside of hate-watches and things where the bad depiction is relatable, I loathe negative depictions of trans women as serial killers. I loathe cis people playing trans people. I am working on being anti-racist and old shows that engage with racist stereotypes (especially racist American Indian and Indigenous stereotypes due to people I am friends with) make me feel awful and I don't want to continue watching.
I also have trouble with overly violent shows, and as such I don't watch a lot of horror, a lot of crime , and a lot of action stuff, so I haven't encountered things like Breaking Bad or the Sopranos which people keep bringing up in this thread. I also still watch mysteries and in a show like Columbo I like the cat and mouse and I kind of cheer for both of them because even though I know Columbo is going to win, I like the moments when we don't "know" and I like how smart the villains are.

My general perspective on this as someone who works with kids both as a career and in helping out my girlfriend, is that you have to teach kids how to understand media. You don't just tell them things are bad and you can't like them, you have to get them to really think about it and also let them know that while old things can have bad things in them it doens't mean you can never like them, and just because something is fun doesn't mean other people have to enjoy it either. People like different things. It took me until I was 10 to work out that people like different things

There's no way this cunt works with kids. Not a fucking chance they'd let this nutter into a school.



https://www.resetera.com/threads/people-who-think-that-they-like-dislike-something-about-media-it-has-to-be-morally-justifiable-are-so-insufferable.863388/?post=122588592#post-122588592

The public adress system at my workplace plays music during the days and Two Hearts by Phil Collins started playing and I couldn't help to think of this whacko. I doubt they actually work with anything, I think in another post they basically said they're disabled and can't leave the house or something.