Because it is totally the responsibility of the fic author to make everything squeaky clean, and no no no no! Racism never existed! If we ignore that it happened, it'll go away right?
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Also, re: cannibalism. Its just morbid enough that I think its funny. XD As long as it doesn't happen to me.
Yeah, exactly. Because you know, in the 1960s, two middle aged men are totally going to be saying 'Asian American'. *headdesks* It kind of reminded me of when I was reading Jason Publick's blog, and he was mentioning that the CN execs took him to task over what they considered to be unacceptable material shown in VB: having a 'good guy' smoke. WTH, people?
Hahaha, I don't know, it's one of those things that always kind of gets under my skin. In serious situations, anyway. :D
OH YEAH, DEFINITELY! TOTEMS OF MODERN VIRTUE, THE ORIGINAL TEAM VENTURE WAS! Hahaha, yeah. They were like 'make Brock stop smoking' and since then, there hasn't been a single episode where Brock doesn't smoke. :D
Yeah, and I have very, very few squicks (AS YOU WELL KNOW!) but that's like...the only one.
Cannibalism is one of the few things that still bothers me in fiction too. (And the last fic I finished had necrophilia...) It even bothers me with zombies. Somehow I'm glad I'm not alone.
I hope the person responds to your comments. I'm not familiar with the fandom but your reasoning sounds very sound to me.
I don't know what it is about cannibalism that gets me, but it always has. Zombies it really depends on how it's handled - usually it doesn't bother me any, but that one scene in Shawn of the Dead did.
I have no idea if they will or not. The series basically spoofs/plays homage to all those popular adventure/mystery cartoons of the 60s and 70s, and Golden Age comics - Jonny Quest, most predominantly, and Marvel. Which were rife with 'good natured' racism and sexism, and so that's touched on in the series. And never presented in a good light, which I tried to keep in my fic when writing the characters. They're racist and sexist. I'm not going to write them OOCly to 'clean up their language'.
About cannibalism, I think it's disturbing because it reduces human beings down to the level of food. We don't like that association, because because of the ideas of us having souls and being above the mindless killing that animals engage in.
I heard about this somewhere on TV. It's the ultimate de-humanization. It shows that they have no regard for you as a person and all the morals we've built up in society are for nothing.
We consider ourselves above the food because of our intelligence and morals. But when something eats us, it reminds us that we're still just animals that can be killed and eaten. And when we're forced to do it, if it's necessary to survive, it makes us feel guilty because we're basically discarding everything that has been ingrained into us in order to treat other human beings as food.
They wrote back, too, basically saying I'm promoting racism and as an author I have a duty to be sensitive to readers and 'just because it's "canon", it doesn't make it okay'. Um...what now?
DID SHE MISS THE 'OFFENSIVE DIALOGUE, ETC ETC' WARNING?!?!?
Neither do I. I'm just...really boggled. I mean, this is a canon that's riddled with offensive content. Of course it's going to carry over to the fics, if people are writing true to the source material!
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Also, re: cannibalism. Its just morbid enough that I think its funny. XD As long as it doesn't happen to me.
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Hahaha, I don't know, it's one of those things that always kind of gets under my skin. In serious situations, anyway. :D
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XD Yeah, if something's morbid or just out there enough I tend to find it amusing. But hey, we all have our squicks.
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Yeah, and I have very, very few squicks (AS YOU WELL KNOW!) but that's like...the only one.
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I hope the person responds to your comments. I'm not familiar with the fandom but your reasoning sounds very sound to me.
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I have no idea if they will or not. The series basically spoofs/plays homage to all those popular adventure/mystery cartoons of the 60s and 70s, and Golden Age comics - Jonny Quest, most predominantly, and Marvel. Which were rife with 'good natured' racism and sexism, and so that's touched on in the series. And never presented in a good light, which I tried to keep in my fic when writing the characters. They're racist and sexist. I'm not going to write them OOCly to 'clean up their language'.
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I heard about this somewhere on TV. It's the ultimate de-humanization. It shows that they have no regard for you as a person and all the morals we've built up in society are for nothing.
We consider ourselves above the food because of our intelligence and morals. But when something eats us, it reminds us that we're still just animals that can be killed and eaten. And when we're forced to do it, if it's necessary to survive, it makes us feel guilty because we're basically discarding everything that has been ingrained into us in order to treat other human beings as food.
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They wrote back, too, basically saying I'm promoting racism and as an author I have a duty to be sensitive to readers and 'just because it's "canon", it doesn't make it okay'. Um...what now?
DID SHE MISS THE 'OFFENSIVE DIALOGUE, ETC ETC' WARNING?!?!?
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