I hate to break it to you, but everyone is “problematic.” Human beings are flawed. If they weren’t, literature and art would not exist. You’ve been duped by an ideology that will happily rob you of all joy and complexity in life and art.
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Your mother is problematic. Your father is problematic. Your son is problematic. Your aunt is problematic. The cashier at the local Tesco is problematic. You've probably bought a cookie from a bakery made by hands that have done unspeakable things. Every chocolate bar you've ever eaten has probably killed a 7 year old child slave in Cameroon. The gas that drives your car is fueled by engines of death. Every person who has ever smiled at you in the streets has committed some act that if you knew about it, would make you profoundly dislike them.
We have all been bad, small, petty, unlikeable, cruel, downright mean. Authors are not special "problematic" beings, they're just more public. Part of being an adult is recognizing that without mercy for our fellow human beings, and ourselves, we'd all be condemned to death. Reading fiction should help us understand that we're all irreparably tainted with evil, every system is corrupted, every line is broken.
And like, that's okay. That's what it means to be alive.
@frostipineappIs@All_Lee24 Morals and rules, and stop the moral absolutist mindset I had. After that, mistakes became easier even though I still deal with Moral OCD. If you’d give others grace for the mistakes you made, why should you be put on a pedestal? You aren’t the messiah!
@frostipineappIs@All_Lee24 That’s understandable, but it takes a whole mindset change for it to really work. I had to drop the social justice warrior act and stop pretending to care about things I really didn’t care about. I moved away from alot of leftist spaces which were quite strict with-