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December 29th, 2009
05:53 pm
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gabrielleabelle: Memo - But just cause you like something, doesn't mean that there aren't problems with it. Hell, every show ever made has problems with it. It's not a reflection on the quality of the show. Just on how the show stands up in the social issues department. -
- princessofg: Escape From Reality. If You Can. - I think any sort of worry about Crucially Important Difficult Topics like racism or sexism perhaps crowding out writing issues, or canon discussions, or the revisiting of various fandom concerns like the nature of canon in an RPS fandom or the definition of fanon or the role of Mary Sues is a false dichotomy. There is no either/or here. All these topics are important and they all belong in our metadiscussion. -
- idlerat: Avatar: I did not like it. Also stuff about fantasy and effects in movies. - But why does this movie convince people it's NOT animation? I think it's the coincidence between this slight of hand (this isn't a cartoon, it's so real!) and the tacky and offensive "nature" brand with which Avatar coats race, gender, economics, sex, religion, politics, and everything important that kicks my sense of bad faith, already at 11, up a few notches. -
- r_becca: Discussion on reviews - There's a lot of reasons why people don't appreciate critique in fests, and I think that some of them might not be the best. Frankly, no one wants to have their failings detailed in front of others. But the biggest reason that I'm willing to screen critique in the fest is that the authors are anonymous, and thus kind of defenseless. -
- la_vie_noire: Who, who the hell pointed a gun at my head - racism is based on erasure, genocide and domination of other cultures. Does Japan has a recent -or with still some impact on people's lives- history of doing that? Yes. Towards White Nations*? Big resonant no. Nor does any non-white culture. -
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gabrielleabelle: Memo - But just cause you like something, doesn't mean that there aren't problems with it. Hell, every show ever made has problems with it. It's not a reflection on the quality of the show. Just on how the show stands up in the social issues department. -
- princessofg: Escape From Reality. If You Can. - I think any sort of worry about Crucially Important Difficult Topics like racism or sexism perhaps crowding out writing issues, or canon discussions, or the revisiting of various fandom concerns like the nature of canon in an RPS fandom or the definition of fanon or the role of Mary Sues is a false dichotomy. There is no either/or here. All these topics are important and they all belong in our metadiscussion. -
- idlerat: Avatar: I did not like it. Also stuff about fantasy and effects in movies. - But why does this movie convince people it's NOT animation? I think it's the coincidence between this slight of hand (this isn't a cartoon, it's so real!) and the tacky and offensive "nature" brand with which Avatar coats race, gender, economics, sex, religion, politics, and everything important that kicks my sense of bad faith, already at 11, up a few notches. -
- r_becca: Discussion on reviews - There's a lot of reasons why people don't appreciate critique in fests, and I think that some of them might not be the best. Frankly, no one wants to have their failings detailed in front of others. But the biggest reason that I'm willing to screen critique in the fest is that the authors are anonymous, and thus kind of defenseless. -
- la_vie_noire: Who, who the hell pointed a gun at my head - racism is based on erasure, genocide and domination of other cultures. Does Japan has a recent -or with still some impact on people's lives- history of doing that? Yes. Towards White Nations*? Big resonant no. Nor does any non-white culture. -
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