A Personal Schema for Meta, by cupidsbow

[cupidsbow]

A Personal Schema for Meta, or Why You Say Po-tay-toe, and Sometimes I Hear Po-tah-to

an essay by cupidsbowI had no idea until today that I had a personal schema for meta, let alone that it's quite sophisticated and complex

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[cupidsbow]

You know, you're right. I have mislabelled. I was thinking about it from the perspective you allude to, of the way in which the word "tone" is used as a supression technique, especially in discussions of race or gender.

I was wondering if I'd unwittingly been doing something similar in my knee-jerk reaction to the Position Statement poster.

I don't think I was -- I think it was that she and I were involved in different discourses, as you suggest. I actually agreed with her position, for the most part, but she expressed it as lecture on the power of women's expression and why women have rape fantasies. I've just re-read my cached version of it, and she only mentions her own emotional reaction to darkfic (in abstract terms) once, and the rest is structured as a counter-argument. She doesn't address the fact that my emotional response to such a story was the actual topic.

So for me reading it as a direct response to my emotional take on a story, yes, I can totally see why it came across as an attack; and also why she was clueless about what had upset me.

I think that answers the question you asked in your other comment, too, which is very economical of me. :)