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Message: [QUOTE="jiyuuboyetsvi, post: 201219, member: 222172"] Is the context of the creation not directly influenced by the artist's personal life itself? The artist is showing you a peak into how their mind works by creating the art that they do. Nobody is asking you to follow their romantic/sex life, but posturing your take this way is dumb. Queer people's lives are fundamentally different in way to straight people's [I]because [/I]we're queer. And because we're queer, we have different views and ways of experiencing the world. Saying this comes off as disingenuous to me. I can see what you're "trying" to get at by saying this, but ignoring the context of someone's life and how that influenced their art is foolish. Now, how that art influenced YOUR life is a different story. How they live their life and how their art influenced your life are two completely different things. I think it's shortsighted to dismiss this type of conversation by using this kind of language. The type of rhetoric you used reads to me as very damaging even though you didn't intend it to be that way. There are tons of straight artists to draw from, and having queer artists as well that other queer people can look up to as role models is sorely needed. [/QUOTE]

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