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frnko-mars · 4 years ago

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someone on tik tok being like “donna tartt is problematic because she made bunny say gay slurs against the gay character, call another a jew and a nazi in the same sentence, AND he’s misogynistic to the only main female character... like all for no reason whatsoever lol cancel her” like ok no it was for a reason because they murder him? like you know going into the book that the plot is that they get sick of his entire personality and behavior and his reaction to being excluded and they straight up murder him... what’s not clicking? like there is really a huge difference between active bigotry and writing bigoted characters who get their ass handed to them in the end

#personal #they also called her racist for not having poc in the goldfinch but like honestly imo #for example if she'd made theo black that would have been fucked up because then it's like #'oh the white woman is gonna write about a black man's drug addiction. relationships with his parents and misc women.'#'and him struggling with his sexuality and internalized homophobia? racist'#like when you write a story from the POV of someone and they're struggling with a lot of diff experiences that are wildly diff between races #.... maybe she should keep them white when she is white herself lol #and another thing they were like 'she had boris say the n word twice and for what'#.... because he's russian/ukrainian/polish and hasn't lived in america very long so why would he know the history of the word?#he's got a white girlfriend who thinks because she's poor and has had a rough life that she's black so of course he would pick her shit up?#it's called being a 15 year old foreigner in america and being impressionable?#that's why i think it's fucking hilarious to see finn wolfhard stans be like 'ugh boris unproblematic fav'#like read the book bitch he's said the n word and hit his girlfriend who tf are you talking about?#it's characterization some people are a little bad or fucked up goddamn that doesn't mean donna tartt hates poc or gay ppl

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