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Well then quote the whole bit: > Take a stand behind your creators who make revolutionary independant content. Stand behind your women and LGBT creators. In m
by Certhas 9y ago
Well then quote the whole bit:
> Take a stand behind your creators who make revolutionary independant content. Stand behind your women and LGBT creators.
In my reading they do always lead with the general call to stand behind vulnerable creators, before specifying some more affected groups:
> We know people who would be homeless if it wasn’t for making porn on Patreon – and it’s not a small number. We know people who now employ many queer performers, workers, subcontractors – all working to make beautiful content.
That is inclusive: There is no identity for whom being homeless would not suck, and they don't limit that sentence in any way.
Reality is also that if you are a porn director targeting a cis male audience you have other options than patreon to get work.
But seriously, I am fortunate to be cis male and heterosexual. Yet still active in a scene that is not represented in the mainstream (and where content creators are often targeted by credit card blocks). I had absolutely no problem reading that letter despite not getting a specific call out to my community in it. Because almost all of the authors there are not queer disabled gender-fluid people of color. They might be one of the above, or two. But they wrote a letter that gives shout outs to all these different dimensions that don't affect them directly. And it strikes me as a misreading that they intended this list of dimensions in which you can be out of the mainstream to be exhaustive.
I see zero evidence in this letter that the authors would consider an alternative independent cis male porn creator, who values the independence that patreon brings, not one of them. As somehow excluded from that call.
Queer-normative cis/hetero exclusionary behaviour exists, and I've seen it. In my reading this letter does not contain any.