Strawberry Wizzard

It’s the same shit it’s been for years and years now. You can’t say shit like this or enable Republican victories by withholding your vote and relentlessly lying about the Democratic Party or openly say you don’t care about handing the Supreme Court to the far-right in 2016, and then cry that people hate you for being “too left." No, it’s that you’re much too similar to Republicans, not simply in enabling GOP victories, but in your reactionary bullshit.

tl;dr (screenshot from mariacallous, as I try to stay off twitter)

You are stuck as a soldier in this historical war

(this is a magical universe where people who wouldn't usually be able to fight would. so you can all suffer.)

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Just say "elemental construct" or something.

I'm not saying nobody who isn't Jewish can write a golem story, there are some that have been very well done... Terry Pratchett springs to mind.

However demanding that you be able to do so without comment or judgement from the community that you are taking from is too much.

I think that a Golem story must be representative of the Jewish people/contain Jews and Golems in general should be guardians of the community that created them and not monsters... But I'm not going to be breaking your door down because your story glued a bunch of corpse parts together and called it a "flesh golem". I will say you're tactless and that characterisation of a beloved part of Jewish culture is in poor taste.

"cultural appropriation" as a term is about how poorly you researched your source material and how tactless you were in your portrayal of that culture. Not that you can never take inspiration from other cultures.

Surely you want to be well researched and tactful in your writing? Or are you just a shock jock?

When you can just call your rock giant a Rock Giant instead of a "Golem", why would you call it a Golem when the former is more descriptive? Are you a person with imagination or not?

Why does being asked to not use this name inaccurately stir such anger in some people?

Because I suppose "automaton" and "construct" could be used for all the other types. And "homunculus" could work as a name for a Frankenstein's Monster sort of creature.

But I think it'd be unfair to deny the use of the term when it's used to describe something that actually fits the description.

They were originally going to arrange them Mexico, Canada, USA but then some Disney lawyers appeared from the shadows. 🤣