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May 21st, 2009 - 04:51 am
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That's perfectly all right.
To me, this discussion needs to take place, considering how disturbing Ms. Wrede's attitudes seem, now that I've read more on it.
(I start to ramble a bit after this. If I make no sense, I apologize.)
Ms. Wrede's responses and Director's Commentary (I don't know the proper name for it) just makes me twitch for some reason. I know that a writer is not their work and the worldviews held by their characters are not necessarily those of the author behind them. But when someone tries to justify simply whisking a whole people out of existence because of wishful thinking or to "play with cool megafauna"...makes me twitchy for so many reasons. One point that sticks out to me is that even if it is difficult to write a different culture from one's own without falling into stereotypes used by authors who have gone before, pretending that those cultures do not exist isn't the solution. It's just creates more problems, not to mention the fact that it magnifies even larger problems, such as her using language that basically dismisses Native Americans as a threat, or as "nonhuman". That's just...I have no words for that. None at all.
I'm sorry again if that made no sense, or if I've rambled. |
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