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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-05-19 06:34 pm

[ SECRET POST #3058 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3058 ⌋

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blitzwing: ([magi] drakon)

Re: Ughhhhh

[personal profile] blitzwing 2015-05-20 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Objecting to a specific relationship between two characters as portrayed in the work is not the same as disliking an entire genre, so your analogy doesn't work very well, I'm afraid.

Care to elaborate on that? Whether you're objecting to an entire genre, or to an entire trope (student/teacher relationship, age difference) if it's because that genre or trope doesn't appeal to your personal tastes, then it's not an appropriate critique.

You don't like dogfucking? Okay! That doesn't make this dogfucking novel badly written. And it doesn't mean your dislike is the same as a critique.

Re: Ughhhhh

(Anonymous) 2015-05-20 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
It's not clear to me that the anon is objecting to all relationships between older men and younger women the way you're assuming. It seems to me that they were critiquing a specific relationship, in a specific work, which is entirely valid and correct.
blitzwing: ([magi] drakon)

Re: Ughhhhh

[personal profile] blitzwing 2015-05-20 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
I pointed out that having a fifty year old guy marry a twenty-two year old might be a little creepy.

That doesn't sound specific, that sounds general, as if the creepiness applies to all instances where a 50-year old marries a 22-year old. Same here:

if you're fifty year old, and you're falling for a twenty year old, and you're ~feelings are hurt~ because someone calls you creepy... Grow the fuck up, and maybe think a little bit about why people are finding it creepy.

Re: Ughhhhh

(Anonymous) 2015-05-20 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry, but that sounds like a specific reference to the characters in the story. I guess you could interpret it widely, but that's a stretch and I'm not sure why you'd go out of your way to take offense.

Re: Ughhhhh

(Anonymous) 2015-05-20 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
OP says "A fifty year old guy" and "A twenty-two year old", not "THIS fifty year old guy" and "THIS twenty-two year old."

That's wide. That's non specific. That's OP's personal opinions coloring their response.

Re: Ughhhhh

(Anonymous) 2015-05-20 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
*sigh* The context is the critique of a specific story, not an essay about age gaps in relationships. Anon was referring very specifically to the 50 year old guy in the story they were critiquing and to the 22 year old woman in the story they were critiquing.
blitzwing: ([magi] aladdin)

Re: Ughhhhh

[personal profile] blitzwing 2015-05-20 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. How does "having a fifty year old guy marry a twenty-two year old might be a little creepy" not be a general statement? It's a fifty year old guy. That means it's a statement that applies to their 50-year old guy, Jim, and my 50-year old guy, Sam, and other nonny's 50-year old guy, Tom, even if they were only referencing Jim.
Edited 2015-05-20 03:13 (UTC)

Re: Ughhhhh

(Anonymous) 2015-05-20 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Stay deluded, anon. Clearly your mind is made up and you're okay with being both completely wrong and with making a fool of yourself arguing over it.