IIRC, there’s a panel where Jesse Custer mentions that he “prefers Germaine Greer over the Dworkin Women” mentioned here. On the other hand, I’m not sure that any of the characters in Ennis’s novel would “make an appropriate Halloween costume for a child.”
There are too many damn issues in this conversation.
You mentioned Dream
which sort of nestles into Hollywood’s habit of making darker and edgier movies without bumping the rating from P13 to (gasp!) ‘R.’
And of course someone will come a long to denounce Germaine Greer for bashing trans people. As well as Morpheus for not eating.
Alternatively we could accept that some complaining can be a good thing. From the perspective of business it’s feedback, and if managed well can provide insights into how the market makes its decisions. From the perspective of art, it’s a key form of engagement, and it would be silly not to expect any worthwhile work to be looked at from a critical perspective.
Why do people keep comparing criticism to censorship, when it’s a key part of how things work in its absence? It’s like condemning boycotts as interfering with the free market, it doesn’t make any sense.
Don’t worry, I’m in total agreement with you. Criticism isn’t censorship, and I do encourage open discussion. A lot of people don’t realize that you have to move a lot of dirt to get to the diamonds, so we have to put up with a lot of what we don’t like to find those little gems that we’ve been looking for.
