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| Along with "Cancel," "Toxic" should be dropped from our current vocabulary | |
| Posted by: Jax 03:15 pm EDT 04/11/21 | |
| In reply to: ^ This Is 100% the Truth of Our Toxic Industry - Singapore/Fling 02:42 pm EDT 04/11/21 | |
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| It's become a cliche from bleeding hearts who want to throw a blanket condemnation on everything. So the theatre is "toxic?" Compared to what? Coal mining? Policing? Janitorial work? There are tons of people who would kill to be in the theatre, have glamour jobs, expense accounts, the like. Which is part of why there is so much competition to get into the theatre and get those jobs. Which is why petty tyrants like Scott Rudin can flourish....they're holding the bag of candy. The way to bring about better behavior by bosses in entertainment -- a HUGE project, sort of like asking the King to curtsy to his subjects -- is not by branding the whole culture "toxic." It's just more empty talk, pure cant |
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| Let's also drop excusing toxicity in one workplace because another workplace has it worse - they're all examples of the same problem | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 06:41 pm EDT 04/11/21 | |
| In reply to: Along with "Cancel," "Toxic" should be dropped from our current vocabulary - Jax 03:15 pm EDT 04/11/21 | |
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| And that problem is late stage Capitalism. I think you put it perfectly when you compare entertainment bosses to kings and the employees of those bosses to the king's subjects.You make it even more perfect when you say that to be treated with respect by your boss would be as equally difficult as a King (or Queen) to genuflect to the common people who they regard as below them. And that situation, which is rampant across global capitalism, is, I'll use the word again, Toxic. |
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| re: Along with "Cancel," "Toxic" should be dropped from our current vocabulary | |
| Posted by: ryhog 03:50 pm EDT 04/11/21 | |
| In reply to: Along with "Cancel," "Toxic" should be dropped from our current vocabulary - Jax 03:15 pm EDT 04/11/21 | |
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| When I read your subject line, I thought maybe you had a point, and then I opened your post and discovered that you undercut that by spewing your own brand of toxicity. Toxicity - or whatever you want to call it - is not something justifiable by comparison. Is it ok that we have asbestos in office walls because it does not cause as much pain and suffering as what miners breathe in coal mines? Wanna know what's toxic? Excusing Rudin's behavior because people want to "be in the theatre." That's what let's Rudin's behavior flourish. Now to your point, yes all of this labeling and all of these petitions etc etc etc are not going to bring about change. But they do highlight the behavior and from that we get new and better laws to combat the evils of workplace bullying and worse. We now have stronger laws, that provide both added encouragement to complain and compensation for doing so (which also serve as an added deterrent to ogres) and mechanisms to prevent the chilling and silencing of complaints. (The voiding of confidentiality agreements in relation to purposeful communication is a big deal.) So yes let's rise above the labels, but let's stop with the fucking apologies. | |
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