Wow, thank you so much for posting this. I especially appreciate your exegesis of the Eminem song at the beginning of this post (and your points about the ways in which the song choice is problematic.)
Fuck you, fandom, for forgiving pretty white boys and girls anything, for cherishing every bruise on their skin and every drop of blood they shed, while never giving a fuck for all the people of color or white women or poor people they hurt on the way, let alone all the people of color and white women and poor people who aren't represented.
That was pretty much my interpretation, but I'm willing to own the reality that I brought that lens to the vid; given the program blurb and given the conversations about fandom and race and gender which I've observed or participated in over the last year, I assumed this was what the vid was trying to say, so I've been trying to shoehorn the vid into fitting with that interpretation.
So the fact that I can get the COMPLETELY OPPOSITE readings of 1 vs. 2, and the completely different intra-textual as opposed to extra-textual readings of 1 and 2 vs. 3, are because, as an argument, the vid's a mess.
I'm glad you said that also, because I have a tendency to assume that if a vid doesn't make sense to me the problem is in me as an unsophisticated vid-watcher. It's useful to be reminded that sometimes the problem is that the vid isn't clear.
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Fuck you, fandom, for forgiving pretty white boys and girls anything, for cherishing every bruise on their skin and every drop of blood they shed, while never giving a fuck for all the people of color or white women or poor people they hurt on the way, let alone all the people of color and white women and poor people who aren't represented.
That was pretty much my interpretation, but I'm willing to own the reality that I brought that lens to the vid; given the program blurb and given the conversations about fandom and race and gender which I've observed or participated in over the last year, I assumed this was what the vid was trying to say, so I've been trying to shoehorn the vid into fitting with that interpretation.
So the fact that I can get the COMPLETELY OPPOSITE readings of 1 vs. 2, and the completely different intra-textual as opposed to extra-textual readings of 1 and 2 vs. 3, are because, as an argument, the vid's a mess.
I'm glad you said that also, because I have a tendency to assume that if a vid doesn't make sense to me the problem is in me as an unsophisticated vid-watcher. It's useful to be reminded that sometimes the problem is that the vid isn't clear.