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yvannairie) wrote2019-09-10 11:09 am
yvannairie) wrote2019-09-10 11:09 am
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I shoulda listened
Me, a year back, seeing people making snippy posts about the whole "Pennywise is a gay icon" thing: FFS, let people fucking have fun, it's a scary clown and some people are into that, sometimes marginalised people look at the forces that eat them from the inside and go "lmao same" and it's not that deep.
Me, now, seeing people uncritically complain about how Pennywise, the force that eats marginalised people from the inside, furthers homophobic, misogynist violence: never mind, people having fun is bad, apparently
Seriously, though, I've only read a summary of the book b/c I'm not into horror, and even I picked up on Pennywise being an embodiment of the social forces that harm marginalised people. The point wasn't subtle. Saying IT isn't an empowering narrative for marginalised folks is fair enough but was it really portraying itself as one, though?????
Me, now, seeing people uncritically complain about how Pennywise, the force that eats marginalised people from the inside, furthers homophobic, misogynist violence: never mind, people having fun is bad, apparently
Seriously, though, I've only read a summary of the book b/c I'm not into horror, and even I picked up on Pennywise being an embodiment of the social forces that harm marginalised people. The point wasn't subtle. Saying IT isn't an empowering narrative for marginalised folks is fair enough but was it really portraying itself as one, though?????