The overwhelming negativity is indeed souring. And it bothers me a lot of the times, too, because the "criticisms" I read seem to be as steeped in the same stereotypes as the problems themselves. A fannish equivalent of someone saying that a white lousy driver is just a lousy driver, while an Indian lousy driver is a lousy driver because he's Indian, if that makes any sense as an analogy. Boring and poorly written white characters are just boring and poorly written. Boring and poorly written PoC characters always seem to have their failures framed in terms of their ethnicity. I find that really troubling.
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Date: 2007-11-21 07:59 pm (UTC)The overwhelming negativity is indeed souring. And it bothers me a lot of the times, too, because the "criticisms" I read seem to be as steeped in the same stereotypes as the problems themselves. A fannish equivalent of someone saying that a white lousy driver is just a lousy driver, while an Indian lousy driver is a lousy driver because he's Indian, if that makes any sense as an analogy. Boring and poorly written white characters are just boring and poorly written. Boring and poorly written PoC characters always seem to have their failures framed in terms of their ethnicity. I find that really troubling.