#im really sitting here like they said f terfs but are they still contributing to this world that a terf created

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Do not get defensive on op because your favorite is being critiqued. Listen to what they're saying before you respond. But I just want to know everyone else's thoughts because I know personally this gave me a different perspective.

I'm not 100% sure how I feel about MisMag. But I do want to say that they can't just slap the word parody on something and say that's enough to make it a critique. Crown of Candy doesn't critique Game of Thrones. Coffin Run doesn't critique vampires. Weird Al doesn't critique music. Parody is just adopting a style fir humorous effect. It contains no other meaningful engagement with the source material

exactly. Something being a parody doesn't make it a critique or satire. Something being BASED on something else doesn't even necessarily make it a parody. Like, you can't just pull together commonly used themes and pop culture environments and call something parody or satire. Is Anne of Green Gables a parody of Canada? Is Percy Jackson a parody of Mythology? Or are they just Set In Those Environments.

You NEED clarity of purpose, intent, execution, and message for satire. You need to actually have the insight and want to take a look at the source material, understand how it impacts the world, and use comedy and contrast to lay bare it's problems and impacts. There is a reason good satire is hard to do, and good satirists few and far between.

This is why without insight or input from actual trans women or Jewish people, mismag could never be satire. No one else has the experience in those identities enough to hold a mirror up to the source material and in any way create satire of it's issues. The Creator is attempting to say something in a conversation she simply doesn't have the experiences to speak about.

A love letter to a wildly misremembered transphobic childhood obsession isn't satire. Even if you say ""fuck terfs"".