"Don't criticize this book/movie/film for the problematic elements it's touting in the blurb/trailer until you've seen it!" = "I want to see you hurt yourself and then explain to you why you're not actually hurt."
We heard this over and over about that book. "You can't judge from an excerpt!" Then it was, "You can't judge from an ARC because sometimes things change!" and now that it's out and EVERYTHING fat people said about it is true? "HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU DIDN'T READ IT?!"
If someone can't say, "I heard this book/show/film is harmful," then no one can ever again say, "I heard this book/show/film is great!" before they see it. I want NO BUZZ for ANY PIECE OF MEDIA EVER AGAIN if this the hill everybody is going to die on.
And I don't want to see anyone say a comic book movie or a beloved show's reboot is going to be terrible for some superficial bullshit reason before THEY SEE IT WITH THEIR OWN EYES if we're not allowed to do that about media that is clearly gonna be harmful to someone.
Because somehow it's perfectly acceptable to hate something you haven't seen for reasons like, "I don't think they cast the right actor," but not because like, it's going to dehumanize a significant portion of a vulnerable population.
