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Jack BC's avatar

The most offensive aspect of consciously 'woke'/'anti-woke' art is how boring it is. All of human experience gets compressed into one of two categories. Satire is killed, because it becomes a positive recitation of your team's beliefs, and a negative recitation of the other team's. Fortunately, interesting work is always being done, it just needs to be found.

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Maryellen Groot's avatar

This gives me hope. I'm entirely exhausted from playing moral teacher in my fiction and essays--something I never wanted to do. I think I was very afraid of readers placing me on the wrong side of an issue, thus "cancelling" me, and so I took this role on. It's only made my writing and voice worse. I appreciate this post very much. Btw, "Incel" is a fantastic novel title. I look forward to reading.

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