I think it's fair to say we've both been thoroughly childish throughout this exchange. Which again I find odd because I can see from your other articles that we share the same politics, in spite of not having the same taste in shows (which is fine). I apologize for being rude and I agree that it's counterproductive. But you can't sit here proclaiming that you didn't dish out exactly what you were served--in insults and attitude. And in my defense, there's an extremely combative army of Schitt's Creek fans who will say absolutely anything to anyone who disagrees with them, and I'm a human being. It upsets me to hear those things, and it upset me to see how people were railing on a Black woman who wrote a very sardonic article about SC fans when, based on my discussions with a lot of queer womxn of color (certainly not a universal view), it is a hard show to watch for precisely the reasons I describe--particularly the ones about racism and pinkwashing.

Have you ever watched "Pose" on Netflix? It's another show that really highlights how difficult the realities of intersectionality are for Black queer femmes--Black trans women are the ones who incited Stonewall, but for decades were left out of white gay establishments (which is a legacy that's still very extant today. A lot of white cis gay men don't support the rights or freedom of other people in the LGBTQ+ spectrum, especially if they're POC or champion anti-racism in the way that you would assume people who understand oppression would). Frankly I don't think I need to pontificate about intersectionality or racism to you because again, based on your writing, I assume you understand all of this. What I don't understand is why you would get so defensive over a show. Why can't you just like what you like and accept that it is problematic in some ways? We all love things that are problematic because MOST if not all things in Hollywood are. That doesn't make you a bad person.

But to call someone, a Black womxn no less, "humorless" for writing a goofy article about a show where you refuse to see any of the harmful sides of it (which, again, yes, there are beautiful and goofy and meaningful aspects to it) is not only childish but also ignorant and kind of cruel even. Black women are silenced and assaulted for much less, and I don't understand why someone passionate enough to regularly write progressive political articles feels the need to chime in with the choir of insults, rather than just say "No way, I thought it was so funny! What didn't you like about it?"

You incited the tone the second you insulted someone, even if in jest, and then expected anything else to be returned to you.

I don't understand how someone so vehemently defending satire and having a sense of "humor" is so quick to take my calling the show "garbage" so literally. There are infinite publications across the web that use exaggerations and hyperbole in headlines to attract readers today; it's one of the great travesties of modern journalism. And clearly I'm not above it, on some level because it hooks people since they love the drama and suspense of extreme statements or hooks, but in this case also because it had a goofy tonal parallel to the show. And some part of me figured that some viewers of Schitt's Creek might understand that dramatization as satire. Again, if you'd read the article you'd see that I in no way think that it's literally the worst show ever made, and in many ways isn't any more or less garbage than most content.

I respect that you enjoyed the show and I appreciate that it's felt like a break to many people during a hard time. I *also* at the same time am doing my due diligence to pursue my calling in the world, which is to remind people of our inherent multiplicity; we can both enjoy something and have hard-earned rest AND be wary of the implications and consequences of the things we love that may still be causing harm when we're letting our guard down and just letting go. No, neither you nor anyone has to be on guard all the time. But it helps to keep an open mind when other people are expressing criticisms of some of the things you love and spend time with. You don't have to agree, but at the very least you can examine why you feel compelled to respond in such an immediately combative manner as you did in the original poster's article. You could literally even amend that to say "#sarcasm... but seriously what didn't you like about it?" and it wouldn't be so mean.

I just think we need to get beyond a place where we feel that criticizing each other's favorite show's is the same as saying something horrible about each other. I get very sad that people seem to get more worked up over anyone publicly expressing contempt for Schitt's Creek than about pressing, existential issues. You have every right to love Schitt's Creek and I'm glad you have derived joy from it. I do not, and I wish that it had held itself more accountable because it had such a massive fanbase and it could've still been just as fun (in my opinion) without playing into these. Many other shows are so egregiously empty that I am not even bothering to critique them, they are what they are. But because this one positioned itself as having more of a moral backbone, and because people were so darn in love with it, and because they have such a devoted audience, they could've done better. That's all. They don't "owe" me or anyone, but there are certain realities about who gets access in Hollywood and who doesn't, and they could've done more with the opportunity they had.