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My $.02 about Captive Prince:
It is a story with problematic and morally squiffy content. It& #39;s not free from critique. Nothing is! But there& #39;s a difference between critique in good faith, and jumping on the Hot Take Discourse Train to shame and stone anyone who enjoys it.
I.e...
It is a story with problematic and morally squiffy content. It& #39;s not free from critique. Nothing is! But there& #39;s a difference between critique in good faith, and jumping on the Hot Take Discourse Train to shame and stone anyone who enjoys it.
I.e...
Critique: "the fantasy of a romantic relationship growing out of a slave-based society is rooted in white supremacy, because colonialism is seeped into our society. Those disadvantaged by white supremacy may have a different experience/reaction to that fantasy, despite the >>
>> negative or critical ways in which slavery is depicted in the work."
An uninformed hot take: "anyone who likes this is a straight white woman who loves to fetishize slavery and gay men and they deserve harassment for not liking this other more morally pure content!"
An uninformed hot take: "anyone who likes this is a straight white woman who loves to fetishize slavery and gay men and they deserve harassment for not liking this other more morally pure content!"
No shit a book that has a master/slave and colonizer/captive relationship would be distressing or off putting for some people. There& #39;s very good reason for that! Western society is shaped around colonialism and disenfranchising non-whites.
But I am not convinced that the mere existence of a particular trope, with no other analysis or consideration for the ways in which the work explores it, is automatically fetishizing.
You dont have to like or consume anything you don& #39;t want to. But not everything is fetishizing.
You dont have to like or consume anything you don& #39;t want to. But not everything is fetishizing.
Gotcha, thanks for informing me, I& #39;ll delete that now. I repated the term because CS used it specifically in talking about themselves (and their MC), but now I know! https://twitter.com/meltingcyan/status/1252194826532958210?s=19">https://twitter.com/meltingcy...
I know the author is nonbinary & a member of a minority ethnic group in their native Australia. That matters, too, & is overlooked by bad-faith critics.
But assuming death of the author, i still think trope existence alone isn& #39;t enough to explain to whom or why it appeals.
But assuming death of the author, i still think trope existence alone isn& #39;t enough to explain to whom or why it appeals.
