seriously, people, do we need to have a conversation about AUs?
Hey, it's cultural erasure in a big bang part two! Hopefully this will not get lost in the wake of the spn incident.
sohotrightnow posted on Thursday about a bandombigbang story that erased Gabe Saporta's Jewish identity, making him into a Catholic priest. There's the usual "anti-Semitism doesn't exist anymore" crap, later, rinse, repeat-check that post for details and other links. As the story has been taken down I'm not going to mention the author or any of that.
However, if you don't think there aren't plenty of folks who do hate Jewish people-well, as usual, Choire at The Awl said it better in his post earlier this week:The most irritating and troubling part, I think, is that we all do have to acknowledge (over and over again, for real) that, in the real world, people actually hate Jews so much. Oh my God, everyone still hates the Jews. Believe it! And if the hard Christian wing of the Tea Party crowd weren't mostly convinced that, yay, the End Times are here, because blah blah the Jews are back in the promised land or whatever, and therefore are sort of uncomfortably pro-Israel, then this would be the worst time ever for the Jews, because don't think that gang wouldn't be lunging at every "Jew Banker Friend To MUSLIM PRESIDENT" or whatever that they could. (Allies, take 'em where you can!)
AU's just work better when instead of having a script in your head that you need to plug the available "cast" into, you have a loose scenario, see how the "cast" fit into that, and go where they lead you. It's more fun to write and certainly more fun to read. Sometimes fitting them in is a stretch, and sometimes one has to change things, but one hopes in a way that is at least respectful to the people/characters in question.
Which is all to say: it all strikes me as so unnecessary! Which is the worst of it!
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sohotrightnow posted on Thursday about a bandombigbang story that erased Gabe Saporta's Jewish identity, making him into a Catholic priest. There's the usual "anti-Semitism doesn't exist anymore" crap, later, rinse, repeat-check that post for details and other links. As the story has been taken down I'm not going to mention the author or any of that.
However, if you don't think there aren't plenty of folks who do hate Jewish people-well, as usual, Choire at The Awl said it better in his post earlier this week:The most irritating and troubling part, I think, is that we all do have to acknowledge (over and over again, for real) that, in the real world, people actually hate Jews so much. Oh my God, everyone still hates the Jews. Believe it! And if the hard Christian wing of the Tea Party crowd weren't mostly convinced that, yay, the End Times are here, because blah blah the Jews are back in the promised land or whatever, and therefore are sort of uncomfortably pro-Israel, then this would be the worst time ever for the Jews, because don't think that gang wouldn't be lunging at every "Jew Banker Friend To MUSLIM PRESIDENT" or whatever that they could. (Allies, take 'em where you can!)
AU's just work better when instead of having a script in your head that you need to plug the available "cast" into, you have a loose scenario, see how the "cast" fit into that, and go where they lead you. It's more fun to write and certainly more fun to read. Sometimes fitting them in is a stretch, and sometimes one has to change things, but one hopes in a way that is at least respectful to the people/characters in question.
Which is all to say: it all strikes me as so unnecessary! Which is the worst of it!
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