...are the children actually cancelling Sesshomaru now? Seriously? You all don't have better things to worry about?

This kind of vicious attack on fan media is often so misplaced, misrepresents real issues to justify simply disliking something, and encourages a creepy gatekeeping culture that drowns out genuine problems.
Being a fandom anti is like being an Evangelical Christian, it really is.
And the reason is because being an anti is a culture that's based on negativity, not positivity. You have to be mean and aggressive about any perceived issue AND you have to be all-in about it. You can't express any feelings that oppose the mob or you're out.
This is not the same thing as simply not liking something. Sometimes people just don't like something and sometimes they can explain why, other times they can't. Sometimes they find other people that don't like something. But that's usually not the foundation of their group.
Anti culture in fandom, much like Evangelicalism, is organized around attacking others and misrepresenting issues, media, and situations to justify and double down on these attacks.
And much like Evangelicalism, anti culture is very black and white. You're either with them or against them. There is NO nuance, there's no room to agree on one point and not another. You have to be all-in or you're considered part of the problem.
And often times their arguments are based off of not having consumed the media at all, or on a very reductive look at the media (if they consumed it). There's not usually a lot of critical thinking. It's extremely reactionary.
TL;DR anti culture is extremely hypocritical and bullshit that's my TED talk
Anyway, you are allowed to not like something. You are allowed to talk about why you don't like something.

Being part of a mob is usually pretty gross, esp. when directed at the fictional characters/stories themselves

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

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On Feb 22, I'm delivering a keynote address for the NISO Plus conference, "The day of the comet: what trustbusting means for digital manipulation."

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Planet Money on HP's myriad ripoffs: Ink-stained wretches of the world, unite!

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Strength in numbers: The crisis in accounting.

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#15yrsago Bad Samaritan family won’t return found expensive camera https://t.co/Rn9E5R1gtV

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Part of what is going on here is that large sectors of evangelicalism are poorly equipped to help people deal with basic struggles, let alone the ubiquitous pornography addictions that most of their men have been enslaved to for years.


On the one hand, there's a high standard of holiness. On the other hand, there's a model of growth that is basically "Try Harder to Mean it More." Identify the relevant scriptural truth & believe it with all of your sincerity so that you may access the Holy Spirit's help to obey.

Helping sincere believers believe and obey the Bible facts is pretty much all the Holy Spirit does these days, other than convict us of our sins in light of the Bible facts.

If you know you are sincere and hate your sin and believe the right Bible facts as hard as you can but continue to be enslaved to your pornography addiction, what else left for you to do? Just Really, Just Really, Just Really Trust God and Give it to Him?

To suggest that there are other strategies available sounds to those formed in this model of growth like one is also suggesting that the Bible is insufficient, but it also suggests something just as threatening- that there are aspects of reality that are not immediately apparent.

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1/ Here’s a list of conversational frameworks I’ve picked up that have been helpful.

Please add your own.

2/ The Magic Question: "What would need to be true for you


3/ On evaluating where someone’s head is at regarding a topic they are being wishy-washy about or delaying.

“Gun to the head—what would you decide now?”

“Fast forward 6 months after your sabbatical--how would you decide: what criteria is most important to you?”

4/ Other Q’s re: decisions:

“Putting aside a list of pros/cons, what’s the *one* reason you’re doing this?” “Why is that the most important reason?”

“What’s end-game here?”

“What does success look like in a world where you pick that path?”

5/ When listening, after empathizing, and wanting to help them make their own decisions without imposing your world view:

“What would the best version of yourself do”?