I'm torn between rageful flailing and a defeated sigh

[the_moonmoth]

Some days, you just lose all faith in intelligent life on the internet. Yesterday, I spent several hours reading a story called Metaphors As Mixed As You Can Make Them, by halflinen, until, after almost 50,000 words of emotional investment, I got slapped in the face by this little gem of an exchange between Eames and Yusuf:

“Oh my God, get up here. Come on,

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[alyse]

:( I'm sorry she didn't take your concerns more seriously, especially when you articulated them so well.

[the_moonmoth]

Thank you for your support. What would be really great, though, is if it wasn't just my concern but that of the entire fandom. It would be really great if it wasn't always the lone PoC pointing out hey, look, that's a bit racist isn't it? because it gets fucking tiring, I can tell you. Right now, my prevailing feeling is that Inception fandom has failed pretty hard, and I feel like an isolated voice lost in the roar of applause.

Some days, what you really want is a "F. U. Internets" icon :(

[rivier]

Eh, looked racist to me. I don't think she understands that it is, any more than she seems bothered by the casual justification of " oh well Arthur calls Eames a girl as a bantering insult, which would be sexist and offensive but only if you were equally foolish enough to take it the wrong way, which Eames obviously won't because he knows it's done with leurve

[rivier]

Oh - and stay angry. I wish I could think of a way to make you feel better about the lone battle, but I can't, because I'm fighting a similar one every damn day in life and online. You know, how albino's a joke term or shorthand for freakish evil, and how I tell people in our nice new refurbished office that I can't read teh fucking lift buttons or floor signs, and they laugh nervously or say oh dear... Or how fandom thinks disability fic is a satisfying emo porn kink. What can I tell you? It's probably all getting better and more equal, all around the globe, one micron here and another one there. Not in my lifetime though, and not in yours. Keep noting, stay angry, look to make your point whenever you can, and I suppose just accept that it's micron by slow, slow, fucking slow micron. But it's microns, or give up and let them trample on unrecorded. That's the only choice we have.

[the_moonmoth]

Riv, I would just like to take this opportunity to tell you how awesome you are

[anon_j_anon]

re all getting more equal all around the globe one micron at a time

[stexgirl2000]

:headdesk: Well you pointed it out and other people will read the comment and it will swirl around in their heads and hopefully make them think, even if she was an idiot and tried to brush it off.

As it was said below, it was wrong and she was wrong. No amount of "irony" will make it unwrong.

[the_moonmoth]

other people will read the comment and it will swirl around in their heads and hopefully make them think,

Let's hope so.

Thanks for your support x

[aurora_84]

OH SHIT. :(

[the_moonmoth]

Yep. Pretty much.

[labseraph]

And worse, completely OOC. :p

It is canon that Eames respects and treats Yusuf with professional courtesy and amity through out the movie. After all, he recommended Yusuf to Cobb for the job.

It wouldn't hurt to fix that little line which will improve the fic immensely but I suppose the writer is too enamoured with it to change anything.

[the_moonmoth]

You make a good point, although I'm not convinced the logical or the moral argument will work on this person.