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In your opinion, would pirating the show and not talking about it to my friends count as supporting it?
You're still gonna have cancer.
I'm sorry, could you spell out what you actually mean?
Because if you think I'm gonna become a shitty transphobic person because of one piece of problematic media, I can assure you I won't. I grew up in the 90s and 00s. If transphobia was gonna get me through media, it would have by now.
I personally don't think someone who is aware of the transphobic views of the creator, and who takes steps to deny the creator commercial success by pirating the media as a result, is the problem.
Watching the media isn't itself the problem. Hell, I watch Matt Walsh's films as opposition research - that doesn't make me a transphobe.
We should campaign and pressure WB to not work with JK Rowling because of her views, and we should boycott and undermine WB's commercial success for the works they collaborate with her on - so we need to find ways to push that boycott movement into the mainstream, and maybe applying a strongly moralizing taboo is one way to do that, but that can also alienate people who don't get it, so finding a way to reach those people is important.
I guess my point is purity testing among the devout is less important than building a mainstream boycott movement.
That's my attitude too. I'm just trying to see how other people are thinking about it too, y'know? I tend to be deeply pragmatic and wouldn't want to alienate any of my friends or allies, but I can definitely understand why some might be tempted to be less practical and more devout, as you put it.
i mean i think that's fine friends are just your social circle. talking or live tweeting while it airs would give them legitimacy