[ SECRET POST #3356 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3356 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The ayrt wasn't affirming that remark, though. They were bringing up the point that it doesn't have to be an issue of "everyone stay in their own box", it could be a case where "do diligent research and talk to people outside of your box as preparation for writing outside your box".

[(Anonymous)]

But the one above them said exactly that. "Stay in your own sandbox lest you offend someone!"

Well, fuck that noise. Hell, I'm a woman who writes mostly male POV stories. I GUESS I SHOULD STOP DOING THAT, according to the weenies who want to shiver in their own little corners.

No, thank you.

Alternatively, that makes me part of the patriarchal problem. In which case I should also stop doing that. *snort* How about I keep writing what I want, and if people don't like it, they can refrain from reading it?

[(Anonymous)]

The difference between those situations is that there are male POV stories written by men all over the place; no one will ever assume things about or stereotype men based on your stories, because it's already a really commonplace thing in fiction & real life?

There really aren't any mainstream, recent stories about native people or their traditions around, so someone who isn't a part of it, or educated about it at all, going around writing fiction about them can give everyone the wrong ideas, create stereotypes and it's just a touchy situation in general.

Also, making up your own strawman and then writing a rebuttal to an argument no one here made doesn't really prove otherwise, haha.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series uses it. And Carrie Vaughn used a skinwalker in one of her Kitty novels. I think Faith Hunter does too, in the Jane Yellowrock books?

But I don't know if those are "mainstream" enough, though all three of those are NYT bestsellers.

Also, it's not really a "strawman" if we're talking about sticking to our own sandboxes. It speaks to the larger issue of not daring to stray from your niche. We're fantasy writers. Straying from our niches is a given. Adding a "thou shalt not" to that when no one thinks we're writing actual damn history is ridiculous.