: Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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deepad: I Didn't Dream of Dragons - Asking an author to write the Other with respect and assuming it to be sufficient, is like telling a person that being polite to everyone is sufficient in their goal of being an anti-racist ally. This is crap. Your definition of individuality, just like your definition of politeness is culture-specific. And just like I do not want to see yet another Indian princess or lascar stereotype, I do not want to see a White American with brown skin and kohl and an elephant sidekick. -![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif)
matociquala: whatever you're doing, you're probably wrong. - Well, I think the first step is to stop thinking about those people as The Other. Because they're not. I mean, okay, they may not be a lot like you? But they're also people, and if you can question your own cultural assumptions about what people ought to be like, and also the stereotypes you've probably assimilated without knowing it, you can hopefully write people who are not just like you. -- snacky: Poll time! - Does everyone go from one fandom to the other, following the crowd, regardless of whether they like the fannish source? -
- trobadora: Groups of OCs - How do you handle original characters when they appear in whole groups? In fact, original or fanfic, how do you handle groups of characters in general? What do you do when you have a whole group of extremely minor characters around? -