Today's generation just blindly accepts what is given to them and at most shrug their shoulders and make a simple tweet or remark:
It's like going into Taco Bell and say to the manager 'HEY! Your burrito sucks!!!' and he can rightfully say 'So do you bye bye!' where as a proper way is saying the burrito didn't come at proper temperature/not enough or too much ingredients (though usually the former) and the kitchen you see is a filthy mess please clean it up ASAP!.
Enough customers pointing it out the manger will HAVE to fix it or risk getting fined/shut down.etc which then Taco Bell Corporation may say 'Well nobody likes Taco Bell' which isn't exactly true. Nobody likes dirty kitchens!
If the manager just constantly hear 'Burrito sucks' it won't help him to know where the problems lie before he eventually gets inspected if he is in an area that regularly enforces such things.
It’s important to articulate the criticism and be more specific besides “the burrito sucks” as I’m sure you know but in today’s society any attempt at constructive criticism can be taken by some people as being racist, sexist, etc.
Another issue is constructive criticism is taken so personally. We comment on someone's words, story, art, it's like we physically hurt the person whose work we're critiquing. We can't separate ourselves from our work anymore. Ffs I know this and I have the same damn problem!
And, it's not just there, look at fandoms. You say, eg., "Harry Potter is an awful series" to an HP obsessive and it's like you kicked their pet. We are so stunted in our own sense of self that we have to take on the things outside of us to have any sense of our own personhood.
I think part of this may have to do with a lack of resilience owing to relatively easy lives, but honestly, I think a tremendous (and growing) part comes from more and more people growing up to be dysfunctional, mentally ill neurotics. Grow up like that and it's inevitable you'll be emotionally/mentally stunted and (unconsciously or not) look to things to fill out the sense of self that never had a chance to fully grow into being due to the environment you were raised in.
"And, it's not just there, look at fandoms. You say, eg., "Harry Potter is an awful series" to an HP obsessive and it's like you kicked their pet. We our so stunted in our own sense of self that we have to take on the things outside of us to have any sense of our own personhood."
Isn't this, more or less, the boiled-down (and patently non-sexual) original meaning of the word "fetish"?
I personally find a lot of faults with BOTW but I still love it for horsey rides. I've heard that riding a horse in Elder Scrolls sucks for example not so in BOTW where it depends on the type of horse you have AND bond values.
Your just repeating what I already posted though I didn't think about the 'racist sexist' thing but that happened to me a lot on Fanfiction.net and AO2.
You write fan fiction? What stories? I am a huge Skyrim fan. You got attacked as racist/sexist?
No I review fanfiction and get attacked by authors when I call out how the OC's mistakes are often COMPLETELY avoidable. So much head banging instances.
Oh I see. They can’t handle it. Do you see a lot of self inserts?