I really hate the 'we must defend bad art because the Hypothetical Standard Woman likes it' argument. Choice feminism is about degrading feminism into a series of consumer choices that are correctly gender and marketed, nothing radical or boundary pushing about it (just like cozy art).

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Coziness is fundamentally about escapism, which in turn flattens human life into less complex and less honest forms to tell stories that preserve comfort against all other thing, and that's why a lot of horror people find it repulsive when applying that formula to horror. I'm not a genre utopian...

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horror is susceptible to the forces of the market as much of anyone, but my particular bugbear with this cozy movement is that it is a colonizing force, because art becomes about comfort, discomfort becomes an attack on that comfort, and all of a sudden art is a place for cultivating moral hygiene.

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My mom was diagnosed with cancer and it killed her within 2 months. It took every single member of my family to spend nearly every cent we had just to make sure my step father wasn't left homeless after everything was said and done. This was *with* insurance.

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medicaid recovery is some hyper bullshit, talk to your parents/grandparents/etc about setting up trusts if they own property. this is the kind of thing put into action that effectively works to take minority family owned property away.

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