kingloptr:

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kingloptr:

i have met five year olds with a better grasp on critical thinking, human nature, and the creative mind than every single anti ive ever seen

you are so wrong, anti’s are the most critical thinking people I’ve ever met…sure they have a tendency of cursing in their blogs but anti’s are what you’d call critics. Literary criticism is actually a field of study by the way. 

Um, no. My exact problem with antis is that they are NOT doing any proper criticizing. They misuse buzzwords to guilt trip anyone who doesn’t follow their rhetoric. You try to talk it out with them and nope, you’re terrible/bad/wrong and ‘just trying to get away with keeping your nasty fiction’. Antis know fucking nothing about proper critiquing of the subject matter they love to fucking harass and suicide bait people over. If they were just properly analyzing literature I would have zero problem with them whatsoever but their movement (meaning of course its not every single person who might call themselves ‘anti’ bc they probs don’t know the disgusting reputation other people with that label are developing for themselves on this hellsite) is based on purity culture, bullying, telling people to ‘piss their pants’ and generally acting worse than 5 year olds because they can’t understand that not everyone sees fictional topics in the same way they do and they can’t for the life of them keep in mind that its NOT THEIR BUSINESS TO POLICE OTHER PEOPLE’S FICTIONAL DESIRES. So….sorry. If you really agree with antis after I’ve said all this then I have nothing more to say to you at all, ever.

I know most people use “criticism” to mean “saying bad things about something,” regardless of the tone or depth of the bad things. But if you’re going to use “criticism” in that loose, colloquial way, you can’t then turn around and appeal to the academic discipline of literary criticism as if it’s the same sense of the word.

The discipline of “literary criticism” is not about crapping on great works of literature. It’s not even (primarily) about pointing out how socially Problematic™ they are (though that has become a major theme in recent decades…). It’s about sensitively interpreting literary works, drawing out non-obvious meanings, making connections with the historical context or other works of literature that shed light on the significance of features of the work. Have you ever seen an anti do that? I don’t think so.