attackfish ([identity profile] attackfish.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] attackfish 2010-09-22 05:51 pm (UTC)

I'm functioning on the belief that you are not a troll, however, interesting is not the word I would choose. I would advise you check out racefail 2009 and otherwise educate yourself about privilege and race and gender in media, especially in fantasy and sci-fi. It's erm... eye-opening.

Patricia C. Wrede wrote a series called Frontier Magic (http://www.pcwrede.com/FrontierMagic.html) which touched off "Mammothgate" (because she replaced First Nations peoples with ice age megafauna) an online discussion of the damaging nature of writing oppressed people out of existence in fantasy.

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