I feel like it would blow some people on hereās minds to learn that thereās an entire field of study dedicated to looking at how we use media, how people and things are depicted in media, how media influences us and other things of this sort.
Itās annoying as hell that people still use the boogeyman of the overly sensitive crybaby who shirks whenever a serious topic is shown regardless of how the story handles the topic, when barely anyone like that actually exists. Pretty much every time I see someone who actually reacts like that, theyāre a teenager and there is no fucking reason for a bunch of adults to start yelling and whining at/about them. Of course, for most people making up strawmen is always easier than reckoning with the idea that they may have to think about how a work handles and depicts a topic, instead of just mindlessly watching/reading /playing.
sorry this is a bit long and rant-y, I needed to get some steam out. Second part was originally just going to be tags, but it got a bit too long for that.