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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-01-10 04:16 pm

[ SECRET POST #2929 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2929 ⌋

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People just need to be more specific

(Anonymous) 2015-01-10 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems like, all too often, a work gets blanketly labeled problematic as a code for "This is bad and you should feel bad for liking it."

Instead of saying that, people should point out specific things and instead of saying they are "problematic" (which tells us fuck all besides that there's apparently a problem) they should point out in what ways the work stumbles and how to fix it.

For example, instead of saying Star Wars is problematic, you can say something like:

Star Wars needs more women of color (and this is true in the first six movies) and just women in general. It would have been interesting to make Mon Mothma in Return of the Jedi a woman of color, for example. Or to have a man of color play Qui-Gon Jinn (a man of Asian descent, for example, as Lucas originally wanted for Ben Kenobi) and make Mace Windu a woman of color.

Things like that. Because then you're not labeling a work as a whole problematic and you're actually proposing possible solutions instead of just tossing out criticism willy nilly.