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thuviaptarth) wrote2006-04-19 05:09 pm
thuviaptarth) wrote2006-04-19 05:09 pm
Trust the tale, not the teller
Thank you to everyone who responded to this.
I really do think this is the oddest meme. I don't even know how to express what strikes me as so odd about it. The phrasing seems to depend on assumptions about how fiction writers relate to writing, and fiction readers relate to reading, that ... are just so far from the way I have always thought of these things that I don't even know how to say what's off about them. Maybe also about how people present themselves in particular circumstances versus what they really think or feel, too.
Also, either some of you are much better at stripping out what you know of people than I am, or else I haven't made clear things about myself that I think are perfectly obvious. I haven't been able to respond to posts by people I know even a little because I do know them even a little, and unless I remember very clearly my impression of them before talking to them, it's ... no, I can't make it go away.
I really do think this is the oddest meme. I don't even know how to express what strikes me as so odd about it. The phrasing seems to depend on assumptions about how fiction writers relate to writing, and fiction readers relate to reading, that ... are just so far from the way I have always thought of these things that I don't even know how to say what's off about them. Maybe also about how people present themselves in particular circumstances versus what they really think or feel, too.
Also, either some of you are much better at stripping out what you know of people than I am, or else I haven't made clear things about myself that I think are perfectly obvious. I haven't been able to respond to posts by people I know even a little because I do know them even a little, and unless I remember very clearly my impression of them before talking to them, it's ... no, I can't make it go away.
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If it helps, the meme originated because a Harry Potter fan posted a rant about how J.K. Rowling was a hypocrite, since she wrote on her website about female body issues (young girls under tremendous pressure to be thin) and yet, in her book, all fat people are evil*. Thus this makes JKR, in addition to her many other sins against fandom, a hypocritical fatphobe, and consequently, someone the ranting fan would hate in real life, since she is surely anti-feminist too.
In response to this rant, another irate fan posed the question in her LJ, and it developed into a meme. But there was an agenda behind it, and perhaps that's what you're getting.
*pointed out to her by commenters that this was not true.
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(Snacky! Are you going to be in Boston in the next few weeks? Can I meet you if I come up to stay with Vee?)
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(::reminds self will see Vee in May, is less jealous::)