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The January Challenge: Lily revisited

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The January Challenge: Lily revisited

[info]sylvanawood
1/3/11 04:02 pm
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The Challenge for January 2011:

Lily revisited



Years ago (we've been around for a while, oh yes!)we had 'Severus and Lily' as a monthly challenge.

[info]alicekinsno1 suggested to take a closer look at Lily's character:

Maybe something that discusses the character of Lily more deeply? I'd love to see what some of your ideas are for just how Lily went from treating Snape so harshly and talking back to James, to being the stereotypical "saintly mother" at the end of her life. There's something about her personality that doesn't add up.

That is to say, how her apparently selfless decision to die for her baby makes sense in light of the way she treated Severus or even James. With possibly a side comment about how despite being so powerful and gifted she didn't really show any of that by dying pleading for her baby's life without even trying to take on Voldemort.

Please post your entries here or in a separate post. I'm looking forward to your entries.
If you have ideas for new challenges, please post them here. (This is a new list, your earlier suggestions are still in the old post).
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  • Re: An addition and plea for moderation

    [info]ex_sailorlum330
    1/11/11 08:59 pm (UTC)
    Why don't you and your friends write a post about your stand on this, where others can reply, for a change? It's so easy to hop in here and there, anonymous or not, and yell at other people's ideas.

    What do you mean by this? Do you want a stand made here at Snapedom? Is anyone here really open to that? You have drawn the line at the latest instance of a blatant racist statement (and I'm glad to see that), but the aversive racist (and also the aversive misogynistic) statements have been defended to the death, here. And the problem is that the people making these statements and defending them, don't see them as being bigoted statements (unless they do, in which case it is conscious bigotry going on as opposed to unconscious). And no argument or debate has convinced the people making these statements that these statements are problematic to say the least, no matter how civilly made or well thought out the argument/debate was.

    I believe that no one here intends to say bigoted things, but bigoted things get said here nonetheless. And you can't change what you don't acknowledge. And no one here seems to want to acknowledge the underlying real life problem, nor do they seem willing to to do so. I don't see the point in trying to change anyone's mind here. It seems like a lost cause, to me.

    Just in case it isn't a lost cause, I offer up this article: Aversive Racism - SUBTLE BIAS, COMBATING
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