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manifesta ([personal profile] manifesta) wrote 2010-04-22 08:16 pm (UTC)

Yes, definitely. As both a reader and writer I cringe at the notion of censorship. I'm not trying to tell writers what they can or cannot write; I'm trying to explain how what they write--or, more ctitically, how they write it--can have a negative psychological impact that they didn't intend. It feel like this is part of what RaceFail09 was trying to convey with SF/F, but has yet to be addressed in YA and adult romance.

I teeter back and forth on Dollhouse. Whedon had good intentions, and he's stated (in more words than this) that he wanted to illustrate how terrible sexual slavery is, but like you I wonder if he missed the context boat. Playing with conflicting images with the eventual goal of choosing one over the other only works if you build enough of a foundation to do so.

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