Andy Shanahan
1 min readOct 5, 2020

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Respectfully, trying to achieve balance by going to the other extreme is NOT, in fact, balance. It's revenge. It seems many now consider the only way to fix society is for supposed 'perpetrators' to 'see how it feels when you're made to feel bad for things about yourself you have no control over'. I'm not 'for' misrepresenting minorities, nor do I see the need to point out the many many examples from the past decades that defy your take on 'villians', or indeed 'goodies'. The whole thing is based on an idea that since whites (and males) have had it 'too good' in the modern world, we as a society must now push them BELOW others, and give them a taste of their own medicine. This is supposed to lead to a more harmonious world, somehow, while simultaneously demonstrating we're still putting people into boxes and treating them as a group as a result of how we 'feel' about the box. It also seems to rely on the idea that changing themes in media and fiction will make real world changes for the better across societies, but the mechanism for how this works is never really discussed or even considered. It's as silly (and dangerous) as blaming metal musicians for violence and suicide, all men for rapists, or all Muslims for terrorists.

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Andy Shanahan
Andy Shanahan

Written by Andy Shanahan

Musician, Audio engineer, Educator. Dear friend to my fellow humans.

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