the entire enterprise of "feminist" media crit that asks whether a thing men have told the writer is good/bad is actually good/bad is so bankrupt

actual useful feminist media crit engages with the context and background of the work in question, looks at how it was produced and what kinds of labor went into it, asks how it is received, looks at its rhetorical uses, and so forth

there is a lot to say about how canonical works are decided but that has to do with who has power and who doesn't and not whether some individual dude was annoying as shit

the closest i ever got to this i think??? was writing about being at shellac shows with a bunch of men screaming along to "prayer to god," and how unsettling an experience that is, but i also took care to situate the actual music in its context

(and also i think that is just kind of a different piece than 'my ex told me this was an important work but i don't think it's all that great'/'my ex told me this work was unimportant but i love it')