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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9405878" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Sure, but 80 to 90% of people don't care about dead authors and their opinions. Even Hussar, who has been very very vocal in their dislike of H.P. Lovecraft and their virulent racism, has never once said that someone cannot enjoy works in the Mythos... the most they have ever stated is that they cannot enjoy them (because of the racism) and that they wish DnD didn't recommend the books to people (because of the racism). And stating that Lovecraft was a racist, and that you don't want to read his works, because they are full of racism... really no one I have ever seen has seriously said that they can't understand the that viewpoint. Where we tend to get a lot more muddled and complicated, is living authors. Because then there is no historical events to research and see that we live in a different Era. No... they live today, in our era. They are actively working in the industries they are in, they are actively shaping conversations around them. And sometimes those "alternative takes" on their work is important. I mean, Rowling can state she had no alternative motives with her crime novel, but as a very active voice declaring that all transwomen are really predators seeking to harm women, and pushing for laws against their existence, making the murderer in her story a mentally unstable (and ugly) man who dresses as a woman (but is clearly an ugly man) to sneak into women's spaces to murder women.... Well, she can state that she wasn't pushing an agenda, but kind of hard to defend that, isn't it? And for many people, it becomes really concerning when people go and buy that particular book "because it is such a good story" Or when the guy behind Shadiversity published his book that was practically pro-rape, right around the time his misogynistic beliefs were coming to light. Makes it really hard to say that you want to go and buy his book and support him, because it is REALLY clear what was motivating some of his writing. [I haven't read the book, but passages of it were read in a review I watched, and it was HORRIFYING]</blockquote>

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