Capitalist Bullshit

[rsadelle]

I've seen a couple of tweets making the rounds with the sentiment that instead of mourning the future art we won't get from men who are (finally) losing their jobs because they've harassed and assaulted women, we should mourn the art we never got from those women. On the one hand, I think this can be useful framing to redirect people lamenting those men's potential future work to caring about the women they hurt. On the other hand, it rubs me the wrong way because I think valuing people for what they can produce is such capitalist bullshit. I'm so angry that women were/are/will be harmed because they are people and I think people shouldn't be harmed. And I'm also so angry that so many of our cultural and political arguments for doing the right thing center around productivity and/or saving money.