May 19th, 2009

04:19 pm

elynross: When The Thirteenth Child was in the planning stages - I find it disheartening and... eye-opening makes it sound like it's something new, which is isn't, but my eyes did widen a bit reading through the whole thread, so -- I guess what fascinates (and nauseates) me in a really horrifying way is the blithe way in which the natives are planned out, the problematic language throughout, laid out for me to read through and boggle, as I see that in some ways, it isn't that Wrede never considered the ramifications of writing out an entire people: she planned for it. -
(tags: mammothfail writing race)

commodorified: Methought I was enamored of an ass ... - I'm bothered by the expression "showing one's ass", as used to denote racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or otherwise bigoted or just plain nasty behaviour.//And yes, I know it's a metaphor. That's why I don't like it. -
(tags: discussions language)

sami: Mammothfail: An explanation for the hard-of-thinking - If you write a people out of existence as background, rather than as the setup for an exploration of how the world is different without their influence, then you're almost guaranteed to be doing it for reasons that are entirely offensive. -
(tags: writing mammothfail race)

elynross: When The Thirteenth Child was in the planning stages - I find it disheartening and... eye-opening makes it sound like it's something new, which is isn't, but my eyes did widen a bit reading through the whole thread, so -- I guess what fascinates (and nauseates) me in a really horrifying way is the blithe way in which the natives are planned out, the problematic language throughout, laid out for me to read through and boggle, as I see that in some ways, it isn't that Wrede never considered the ramifications of writing out an entire people: she planned for it. -
(tags: mammothfail writing race)

commodorified: Methought I was enamored of an ass ... - I'm bothered by the expression "showing one's ass", as used to denote racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or otherwise bigoted or just plain nasty behaviour.//And yes, I know it's a metaphor. That's why I don't like it. -
(tags: discussions language)

sami: Mammothfail: An explanation for the hard-of-thinking - If you write a people out of existence as background, rather than as the setup for an exploration of how the world is different without their influence, then you're almost guaranteed to be doing it for reasons that are entirely offensive. -
(tags: writing mammothfail race)