When Lifeaffirming = Tired Leitmotif
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darlas_mom asked: "From genocide to celebrity assfucking in ten easy steps? WTF?! How could anyone think that could possibly be okay?!"
I came back with the following:
darlas_mom asked: "From genocide to celebrity assfucking in ten easy steps? WTF?! How could anyone think that could possibly be okay?!"I came back with the following:
It's lifeaffirming. The people that live there are poor but happy even though they have much less than the fabulous young lovers.
"We're a couple of rich white guys and we're just on vacation and more in touch with our humanity than ever before." Cue sunset.
Maybe they'll adopt a smiling child and learn more about love and laughter as the child is more in touch with life, nature, and What's Really Important than kids back home.
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Date: 2007-10-23 09:36 pm (UTC)Not only that, but we used what was in their lifes, not something like the Killing Fields or Katrina or 911, etc., which is another point. Anyone knowing what's going on with those two characters would get why they'd 'reaffirm' that way--it's not just an empty 'hi, we're here in an extoci places screwing each other's brains out'.
And that's the whole problem with the story, the writer, and slashfic in general--it's all backdrop for them, and even when they say it isn't about the sex...it's about the sex.
I mean, I didn't comment when I followed the links, but I know my first question was 'If you were really trying to treat the place and historical event with any sensitivity and with an eye towards awareness, then why wasn;t that the focus of your character's intentions? What does sex, really, have to do with that. And if you took the sex scene(s) out completely, would the story still stand? Would the intended message about re-affirming life still come across?
If not, then you're fooling yourself into thinking that you've managed any awareness at all...and yes, it was about the sex at that point.
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Date: 2007-10-23 09:52 pm (UTC)Which is, to whit, since the 'backdrop' is just 'backdrop', even the writers who research stuff to use come at it with the mind of 'get just enough to link it with the exact place/situation I want it to match.
Which means, no, they don't take into account that some people might have actually experienced the things that happened in Cambodia, or lost people in 911, or lost their entire lives/belongings/homes/family in the after math of Katrina. They're looking for the cheap way to jerk tears if they can. And sometimes, they don't even care about that.
It's like giving a monkey a hammer and expecting it to be able to make of those little ship-in-a-bottle things with it. Except in this case, the monkey is white, and the hammer is all the prejudicial things mentioned in this discussion thus far.
...and now I'm rambling, so I'll shut up.
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Date: 2007-10-24 12:06 am (UTC)Pretty much, also GENOCIDE.
It's bigger than two people, and...maybe I'd have to read the rest of the fics in her series, but if she was writing about genocide and life and death...maybe she should have done a better job. Even if her fanfic was meant to be escapist.
The link?