: Monday, May 11, 2009
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jonquil: A is not B (a Rand-free zone) - In other words, you can substitute assumptions without regard for context: deleting a country from the world is the same as deleting a people. And, once again, that's false. Context matters. -- sixquarters: [activism] the thirteenth child - Do words only have power when they want them to? -
- ithiliana: Personal/Political, Time/Money, Choices/Freedoms/Responsibilities - Choosing not to buy or read a book (etc.) is not censorship. It is also not bookburning. -
- rushthatspeaks: an historical redux - So, I turned to fiction, as one does, to help me understand my country's roots and lack of them, and I turned to science fiction and fantasy, because I am me. -
- sami: Derailment Redux: Lois McMaster Bujold Hypocrisy Special Edition - It's not "just fiction", as you damn well know - stories have meaning, stories have power, and stories contribute to the ways in which we define the world in our "own self-centered (sic) universes". -
- gabrielleabelle: Why I Bitch About Female Characters All the TimeRacial and ethnic minorities often get the burden of stereotypes. The urban gangsta, the smart Asian, the lazy Mexican (And now the terrorist Middle Eastern person). If that's what we see portrayed on TV, without real-world examples to show us differently, this is what will oftentimes be believed. And some people don't have real-world examples to tell them differently.
The same happens with female characters. - sami: Because I need to think about things that are differently stressful, sometimes... - These are not just unfortunate byproducts of history - they are integral, causative factors of the shape of history as it turned out, of the shape of America. It is intrinsic. -
- moniquill: So racefail... - And now it's about Patricia Wrede going one step further and saying that we just never existed at all. Because that's cleaner and neater and avoids all those sticky questions about genocide and imperialism and cultural appropriation that make a book no fun. After all, kids shouldn't have to worry about things like that, and it's a kids' book. -
- nicki: Words are important: Fiction, a game of Clue, and racefail-the-return - Our entire culture is made up of words and the stories we tell with them, and how we use them to pass overt, coded, and unintentional messages. -
- gavagai: well meaning white girls against cultural invisibility and colonialism. - Mostly, I want to talk about this "social engineering" idea. -
- rosefox: "My head can't tolerate this bobbing and pretending" - I've been thinking about what to do when a heated discussion next crops up in the comments of one of my journals. -