this is the issue i have with fandom purity

themadcapmathematician:

themadcapmathematician:

The same ppl who are always rallying for works of fiction to be morally black and white fail to realize that often when works DO take that view of morality

1) they are limited in the scope of what social issues they can handle well

2) limits what questions you can ask about the work and the believability of a world

3) traditionally the “good” and “bad” is labeled by the majority and by social norms of the times, which we have already established can be really dangerous; this is part of why these kinds of stories fell out of favor in the first place

4) are also often misremembering favorite works as morally black and white when they were actually quite grey and nuanced with no easy answers (e.g. atla) or that works that DID have that kind of approach to morality often struggled to add nuance to their storytelling, make character motivations believable, etc. and many times this was a disservice to the work (e.g. star wars), or that the work was greatly benefited when the fandom proceeded to add texture to the work by exploring moral greyness better than the text did