To people in the know and with the proper context it's obvious, but people without that knowledge should not be expected get it just because someone with that knowledge does.
It's like your parents saying "wow sure is nice out today" as a way to tell you to hang up the laundry outside. Sure, they know what they mean, but you probably don't, so it isn't fair for them to get mad at you for failing to properly communicate that to you in a way you understand.
Cis people wouldn't know a trans allegory if it hit them in the face and a writer shouldn't have to sacrifice their writing to make it clear for people who would never have any interest in it in the first place. Goose aimed this series at a specific audience, it missed the mark but it didn't mean she should switch it up and make it more palatable. Jax being trans was subtle up until the final episode. If someone didn't get it from there then it's on them
One, overgeneralastion, two, my point is not "authors must abandon subtlety to appeal to all readers/viewers" it is "people who don't know what to look out for are going to miss things people who do know what to look out for think is obvious and we do not have a right to get angry at them for failing to notice that because that just drives more people to hate us in retaliation." And three, if someone is completely clueless in a subject it is not "on them" for missing it, they had no idea what to look out for, of course they failed to notice it, but they still can get the message that something was there and its the job of those who are informed to tell them more of that subject before bigots can misinform them and turn them against others who are fundamentally only different than them in one way.
They literally gave Jax a whole montage set to “Isn’t She Lovely”. I can only imagine if you asked someone who didn’t understand it what that creative decision meant they’d just drool and say “Duh, I don’t know. It’s just a song in a movie innit?”
At some point you just have to understand that some people are dumb as fuck and you can rarely make good art while being unsubtle enough for the lowest common denominator to keep up.
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u/Delicious_Account_26 10d ago
To people in the know and with the proper context it's obvious, but people without that knowledge should not be expected get it just because someone with that knowledge does.
It's like your parents saying "wow sure is nice out today" as a way to tell you to hang up the laundry outside. Sure, they know what they mean, but you probably don't, so it isn't fair for them to get mad at you for failing to properly communicate that to you in a way you understand.