I tried to find something to say but the words fail me.
This reminds me about the plans for Gina on BSG and how good Tricia managed to make RDM change the story. Sometimes I think the less I know the better. Somehow things are easier to like the less exposure to fandom and the less knowledge about the creative process the better of one is.
I used to hate Polish as i always found the 'what author had in mind' question incredibly annoying. Not only I didn't know how could they know but I tend to have completely different interpretation on things. For example I used to think Inara was the good, respectable person and the Mal behaviour was to show what anti-hero he was. The only way for them to ever get together was if he changed. I'd prefer live in a world when I don't know what creator though about it.
I love you for putting into words all I feel about the Hooker with the Heart of Gold stereotype and general treatment of female sexuality. I hate how it's treated as something that makes them evil and they have to suffer for it before being considered equal to "good" people. It's irritating trope even when applied to other things and with women and sex it become infuriating. All Inara does is consensual and advantageous for both sides. Sex is not something one needs to make up for.
I dislike the use of such a cliche storylines. But this one. This one enrages me. I hate everything about this. From the suggestion that she is a bad person just because she has sex and that's why bad things happen to her. To the implication that this suffering will make her worthy of true love and then it will make everything ok.
The other thing is that this kind of storyline always somehow becomes all about the pain a male hero suffers when "his" woman is attacked. I know our culture is not equipped to deal with the suffering of other people so the stories concentrate on the reactions of those close to them as it gives us a way to distance ourselves from the true pain. However I just have enough of brave men standing by their women and bravely taking their outburst of pain. It's not them I'm to sympathize with.
I now everything is one trope or other but this should never, never ever, be used again.
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This reminds me about the plans for Gina on BSG and how good Tricia managed to make RDM change the story. Sometimes I think the less I know the better. Somehow things are easier to like the less exposure to fandom and the less knowledge about the creative process the better of one is.
I used to hate Polish as i always found the 'what author had in mind' question incredibly annoying. Not only I didn't know how could they know but I tend to have completely different interpretation on things. For example I used to think Inara was the good, respectable person and the Mal behaviour was to show what anti-hero he was. The only way for them to ever get together was if he changed. I'd prefer live in a world when I don't know what creator though about it.
I love you for putting into words all I feel about the Hooker with the Heart of Gold stereotype and general treatment of female sexuality. I hate how it's treated as something that makes them evil and they have to suffer for it before being considered equal to "good" people. It's irritating trope even when applied to other things and with women and sex it become infuriating. All Inara does is consensual and advantageous for both sides. Sex is not something one needs to make up for.
I dislike the use of such a cliche storylines. But this one. This one enrages me. I hate everything about this. From the suggestion that she is a bad person just because she has sex and that's why bad things happen to her. To the implication that this suffering will make her worthy of true love and then it will make everything ok.
The other thing is that this kind of storyline always somehow becomes all about the pain a male hero suffers when "his" woman is attacked. I know our culture is not equipped to deal with the suffering of other people so the stories concentrate on the reactions of those close to them as it gives us a way to distance ourselves from the true pain. However I just have enough of brave men standing by their women and bravely taking their outburst of pain. It's not them I'm to sympathize with.
I now everything is one trope or other but this should never, never ever, be used again.