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Art is Political
Don’t believe what empathy-challenged perpetual playground bullies (PPBs) tell you.
I’m occasionally haunted by manipulative lies told by enemies past. Frequently someone good, sane, honest, qualified, and devoid of a gaslighting agenda says the extreme opposite of what I remember empathy-challenged perpetual playground bullies saying once upon a time. This of course is profoundly validating and confirms my impression that SpongeBob Psychopants and Arrogant Asshole were as full of shit as they seemed. (And just for the record, gaslighters, my not having amnesia is no excuse for attacking me and accusing me of holding grudges. I see right through your mindfuckery.)
An example:
Arrogant Asshole, a cishet white male who started a novel critique group, obviously found my feminist novel threatening. My protagonist came from a verbally and psychologically abusive family. In addition to having entirely different views from Arrogant Asshole, she has traumas he doesn’t and mental health issues he doesn’t. As a patriarchal asshole who wallow in his privileges and weaponizes them, he had zero compassion for me or my protagonist.
Arrogant Asshole stood over me barking, “ART ISN’T POLITICAL! ART ISN’T POLITICAL!”
Nobody told him off. I was shocked speechless by his behavior. Maybe other people in the group also were shocked…