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Rants and Stuff / Re: More Grumpiness
« on: November 14, 2005, 04:10:29 PM »
Yeah, e, what is this "pants money" of which you speak?
A lot of people describe Scalzi’s Old Man's War novels as military science fiction, but I would classify its sequel Zoë’s Tale as a space opera. It’s a story about, well, Zoë, a teenage girl whose parents are invited to take leadership roles in building a colony on a new planet. Zoë is an enthusiastic member of the group sent to colonize Roanoke, despite the risks—and the risks are considerable even before the political machinations of greater powers boil to the surface. Continue reading Zoë’s Tale
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Truce called and observed. (although the word calls up more acrimony than either of us felt I think )
I'm grumpy because I'd like to say "Only a guy could miss something like that based on her talking about her crush" but I'll be jumped upon for my gross generalizations. ...
I was accused of having an eating disorder tonight. . . . she said, "Are you eating? You look thin." . . . .My London friend said, "But your face looks thinner, too." Then she turned to the guy I was talking to (who happens to be my crush) and said, "Make sure she's eating!"
Great. Now my crush thinks I'm anorexic. Just what I wanted.
Thanks shrain for your nice post.
Shrain. My entire point was that your very accusations/concerns of racism were racist. . . .
If you approach an analysis of the film from a neutral perspective there are plenty of explanations that do not involve racism. Yet you passed those over without a thought in order to call white folks racist. . . .
You're probably used to being called open-minded and tolerant when you assume white people are racist and judge them on that basis, . . .
And it doesn't matter at all that there actually were prevalent racist attitudes when that film was first made. . . .
I dunno, I think that putting off having to sacrifice one of their own is plenty good enough reason. If this strange new toy is the one, so be it.
Besides, their own women hadn't stopped him, so why not try something different? I don't see at all why there has to be a logic of "she's innately superior to our own women" behind their motivation. I think that's projecting a racism on to it that isn't suggested in the text as I know it.
If they say "She's more beautiful than any of our women because she's white and ours aren't" that's one thing. But even if they say she's more beautiful on the basis of being strange and different, being the first white chick they've ever seen, I think you're pushing the use of the racism card.