[I]n this context, the “___ are people too” narrative is the most insidious kind of oppression, the kind that masquerades as acceptance.
Yeah, the way these narratives bleach characters of humanity is awful. If they were few in number they'd be laughed at as bad fiction, but somehow a different standard seems to apply to Very Special-type works. Their sheer predominance and the lack of other narratives about these groups turn what is at heart bad storytelling into an erasure of whole groups.
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Date: 2014-05-28 03:58 pm (UTC)Yeah, the way these narratives bleach characters of humanity is awful. If they were few in number they'd be laughed at as bad fiction, but somehow a different standard seems to apply to Very Special-type works. Their sheer predominance and the lack of other narratives about these groups turn what is at heart bad storytelling into an erasure of whole groups.