sources that, like comics (and other SF/F stories), pretend real life oppressions don't exist while superimposing a fictional oppression (like mutantism) over everything. And in doing so, they actually perpetuate RL oppressions by erasing or warping fictional representation of disenfranchised people.
Oh, awesomely said.
But if the meme makes people think about these things -- how it works, how it doesn't, how it runs up against other stereotypes/intersectionality -- then, IDK, I tend to think that's a better result than simply being able to swap characters' race or gender without much thought?
Totally agreed. In almost every case I am an advocate of more thought. :D That's why I suggested it as an anti-fail check because I think in writing and in criticism we tend to overgeneralize our metaphors, whereas this points to how specific and non-metaphorical factors that both reveal what is actually being written about, and what isn't.
(BTW, I am v. aware that I owe you a comment from like a week ago! I got all excited and flaily when I read yours because SO MUCH TO SAY and then promptly lost my ability to sort any of it out. Which is to say, I utterly agree with your suggestion of Mad Men's worldview expansion and have a very conflicted relationship with the show for that reason.)
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Oh, awesomely said.
But if the meme makes people think about these things -- how it works, how it doesn't, how it runs up against other stereotypes/intersectionality -- then, IDK, I tend to think that's a better result than simply being able to swap characters' race or gender without much thought?
Totally agreed. In almost every case I am an advocate of more thought. :D That's why I suggested it as an anti-fail check because I think in writing and in criticism we tend to overgeneralize our metaphors, whereas this points to how specific and non-metaphorical factors that both reveal what is actually being written about, and what isn't.
(BTW, I am v. aware that I owe you a comment from like a week ago! I got all excited and flaily when I read yours because SO MUCH TO SAY and then promptly lost my ability to sort any of it out. Which is to say, I utterly agree with your suggestion of Mad Men's worldview expansion and have a very conflicted relationship with the show for that reason.)