A word about Waylon Boggs (Patreon)

Family, if you haven’t listened to Build Mama a Coffin or Black Mouthed Dog just yet, we advise you to skip this one. For those who have…

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We have received a couple of emails and messages from folks who are upset about Waylon’s character in Black Mouthed Dog. Specifically, from folks who expressed the following concerns:

1. That we are “glorifying an abuser.”
2. That we are portraying our first queer man [which he isn’t] as an abuser.
3. That we are throwing Glory Ann under the bus by having her eventually paired with a man “who could never love her” or was “only using her for his own ends.”

Family, we love you, but we’re gonna need you to step all the way off our porch with that.

To the first two criticisms, there is one scene in BMAC involving Waylon acting aggressively toward his family. Some of y’all appear to have built up his character as some sort of monster, when we never wrote that. We ask that you actually finish listening to the story we’re trying to tell before you write to tell us how disappointed you are in us.

To the second, bisexual men exist. Your narrator and co-creator of this show Steve, who wrote the episode in which this detail is revealed, is a bisexual man who has been happily married to a woman whom he loves very much for fifteen years. This does not negate his attraction to men. His attraction to men doesn’t invalidate his love for his wife. We respectfully ask that you miss us with that biphobic bullshit.

Our show is in no way immune to criticism, family. Steve and Cam are just two people doing our best to make good art, and we are far from perfect. We know that, and we try to listen with open hearts when fans come to us with concerns about particular storylines or details in our show that may have missed the mark of what we try to do here. But we ask that you come to us with things we actually wrote, and that you allow us to finish telling a story before you criticize our work based on conclusions you’ve drawn that may not be accurate.