The Artist Is Free, and So Is the Audience
I have seen a tendency, since around 2014, for filmmakers, actors, comic book creators and even prose fiction authors to tell the public, "This is what I/we have created, if you don't like it, you're wrong." The biggest names in Hollyweird tend to be the guiltiest parties to this tactic, extolling the virtues of their projects' messages, demeaning and/or mocking large swathes of the consumer public, and adamantly insisting that their finished product will be "exactly what audiences need to see and hear." Then, when the released film, show, presentation, book or comic nose dives into the earth harder than the bombs dropped from B-52s undersides, these same folks deride the public and blame their Istophobia in all its various forms for the project's failure.
"It wasn't made for you!" Okay, then I'm not going to go pay for a ticket to see it.
"You didn't watch it because you hate women!" Obnoxious screechy ones, sure, but if you're obnoxious and screechy and have a beard and a dick, I hate you too. The equipment in your pants doesn't matter to me, it's that you're obnoxious and screechy and demanding I give you my money while simultaneously calling me a piece of trash for something I can't control. Walk on home.
"You just don't want to see diversity on screen!" I'd love some, actually, so if you could give opportunities or tell stories from OUTSIDE of the hard-left political realm, I'll believe your push for diversity a bit more. Also, 'diversity' doesn't mean 'misrepresent actual average demographics data to suit an agenda'. Try again.
"We don't need men anymore to have what we need/get by." Often, this is spewed out of the mouths of OnlyFans brainlets, to which I would answer, 'Without men, how're you making your money, sweetheart? Do you think there's THAT many lonely lesbians forking over their hard-earned cash for videos and pictures of you? Because I tend to doubt it."
Now, these filmmakers and writers and actors and musicians, artists of all types, are free to make whatever they would like. But they need to understand, in no uncertain terms (and this includes me as an artist whose form is the written word in prose), the following:
The audience is also free. Free to tell you your product sucks, or didn't appeal to them. They are free to explain, or not. They are free to say, 'didn't want it in the first place, so I'll not be paying for that.' They are free to say, "Your warning that I, as a fan of Franchise X, would be upset by your project in that Franchise, opted not to go see it, to avoid being upset." You have no right to demand the discomfort of the audience.
There is a term for that; it's called 'assault'.
As much as I'd like to say that my work is for everybody, I know it's not. It's likely to offend the far left because of the underlying message that men are men, women are women, there is good and bad, and freedom is important.
Will I force people to read it? No. I will put it out and let those who want to read it read it.
The kind of assault Hollywood people understand most is the kind that has "and battery" legally attached to it. Some of them have been accused and convicted of just that.
The level of presumed entitlement these people have is outrageous. They've been sucking in too much Los Angeles smog.
At this point in my career, I'll be happy if anyone even gives my work a casual once-over. I always interact with my virtual audience as I would physically with people, and show them the proper social and intellectual respect for their opinions. We owe them at least that much.