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[-] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago

"The author wrote the text so the victims are happy with their lot, so criticism of their treatment is invalid" is also an immature media interpretation, and worth about as much as "All characters depicted in this work are 18 or older even if stated otherwise".

As I've mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the house elves in Harry Potter are explicitly written as content with enslavement, but everybody sees that as transparently problematic. What's the difference?

It's fine to like pokemon (I liked/still kinda like it) but that doesn't mean I'm blind to the iffy nature of the premise

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Criticizing the game for eight year olds where your giant bee monster fights someone's rock-dragon-snake like it has any bearing on actual animal abuse is silly to the point of absurdity. We"re straying in denouncing chess as classist because you're expected to sacrifice the pawns territory.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

We"re straying in denouncing chess as classist because you're expected to sacrifice the pawns territory.

dont speak that evil into this forum

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I'm keeping it in my back pocket.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The house elves are born into it, in the Pokemon canon some Pokemon explicitly choose to fight while many others choose to remain in nature, or choose to do any one of the countless other things Pokemon have been shown to do besides battling. That's a pretty significant difference.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I like Mass Effect even though I have moral objections to fucking aliens.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

What is your moral objection to fucking a sapient being capable of consenting to sex?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah, maybe if there was a communication barrier I could get it but Mass Effect (presumably) has bullshit scifi communication tech

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

No real objection. It was meant to be sarcasm but upon re-reading the post I've realized it actually sounds pretty bad and not so different from a reactionary take. I am sorry about that.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Youre good. Thanks for clarifying!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Maybe they just have a moral objection to aliens, and the word "fucking" was an emphatic marker thonk

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Ashley brained take (joking. But fuck Ashley)

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