as small as a world and as large as alone, BOYCOTTING ENDER'S GAME HURTS SO MANY PEOPLE. The...

4:15am October 25, 2013

Anonymous asked: BOYCOTTING ENDER'S GAME HURTS SO MANY PEOPLE. The cast has spoken against Card's views, so many people who aren't homophobic worked on this movie, should we really hurt so many while Card already got the majority of the money for selling the rights and won't get it from the % he gets on tickets?

madeofpatterns:

chavisory:

wintergrey:

thegamingmuse:

I get what you’re saying

but I will not see this movie

I can’t even with this anon. Hurts so many people? 100? 200? I’m not even sorry. What about the millions of people Card injures with his vehement homophobic campaigning? This is a man who said he’d rather start a civil war than see marriage equality. Not hyperbolically. He feels that was the correct course of action—he would rather see his fellow citizens dead and the country in flames before allowing queer people the same basic rights to marriage as straight people.

More than that, to go and see this movie means that you really, really would rather HAVE FUN and WALLOW IN NOSTALGIA than give a shit about discrimination, violence, and murder being committed against other human beings.

The same vile prejudices and policies that Card espouses and supports financially seem hyperbolic and ultimately not sustainable in our country but the religious faction historically and presently exports that same ideology to other countries where it is instituted as law. SEVENTY-SIX (some sources say eighty-two) countries have anti-gay laws. Homosexual activity is punishable by death in some countries—the death penalty laws developed in some countries are directly linked to campaigning by North American religious groups. None of this occurs in a vacuum. When you pretend that supporting homophobic ideology—especially financially—stops at the borders of your country, you are being deliberately obtuse. Homophobia is a major export and it is killing people world-wide.

(tags via thegamingmuse)

Also, the people who worked on the movie, have been paid for their work. It’s not like a lot of people are going to lose work if people boycott the movie—the crew, designers, actors—have done the work, and they have been paid.

What will happen is that the studio and producers will lose money. Hopefully that will make them think harder about which authors’ work they want to take on next time.

Also as I’ve said before, Card’s views would be a non-issue to me in the matter of whether or not to see the movie, if he weren’t actively working to institute discrimination against LGBT people. A lot of artists and business owners have views I might find unfortunate but I don’t feel like it’s my job to police that every time I buy a movie ticket or book or household product, if someone isn’t actively using their profits and visibility to promote discrimination or harm to other people. Card is. I have absolutely no duty to support that with my money, any more than I have any duty to see any other movie for any other reason…which more often than not is simply that I don’t have the time or the money to see very many movies. Any time I go to see a movie (once or twice a year at most), I’m choosing not to see 10 or 12 others. Card has given me non-arbitrary reason not to make his movie the one I choose to see.

But also, Ender’s Game is horrifying in itself. You don’t actually have to know a single thing about his other views to have a legitimate reason to object to the Ender’s Game movie.

I mean, the whole Bean arc is about how disability makes someone non-human, and how he’s only sort of allowed because in his case it also makes him high-IQ.

And it’s also a world in which ~giftedness~ is the only thing that matters and you can identify the most important kid in the world when they’re six because of how they score on a bunch of tests.

No wonder it was so damn popular with “gifted” kids I knew. Things like that always were, because most of them legitimately saw themselves as better than “ordinary” people. (Reason #18234 I despise the entire concept of giftedness and don’t see it as applying legitimately to anyone.)

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