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⌈ Secret Post #2624 ⌋

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[Outlander]

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[The Walking Dead]

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[How I Met Your Mother]

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[Twitch Plays Pokemon]

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[Batman, Kill La Kill, Borderlands]

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[Overlord]

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[Red Dwarf]

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[Paranatural]

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[Pitch Perfect]

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[Insidious: Chapter 2]

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The problem with using authorial intent as some kind of deciding factor, though, is that it can be abused to defend works with problematic implications. Let's look at Twilight for instance. A lot of people see the relationship between Edward and Bella as abusive. I'm sure that Meyer did not intend at all to imply this. Should people who have concerns about what younger girls could take away from this story then be silent? Should we not address problems that we perceive in the text (say, if an author wrote all of his or her minority characters in a stereotyped manner)?

Conversely, do you think that if one likes a book does that mean the reader agrees with the author's views/intentions? Or do you think readers can form legitimate interpretations separate from the author's intent?

I say this because it was something a lot of my friends who love Ender's Game had to resolve when Orson Scott Card's virulent homophobia became apparent. I think they should still be able to enjoy the book and the message that they took away from it regardless of what Card might have intended.

And then, of course, there's the fact that in 100 years, a lot of people who read the books/watch the movies or TV shows might not have easy access to interviews or statements by the author elucidating his or her intent. So the work must stand on its own for those people.

That's why, when it comes to a work, I'm personally all for "Death of the Author."

I want to clarify, though, that I feel that a reader has the right to interpret a work a certain way but not the author. If you read sexism in a book, for instance, I think it's fair to define the work as sexist, but not necessarily the author. I know that if I wrote stories based on the memories my grandmother told me about from when she was young, they could well be construed as sexist, but they were things that actually happened.

I agree.

The people who see concerns in something "problematic" should first address their views of what is "problematic" and see if they aren't projecting their ideologies and wrongful convictions on the text, rather than assume everyone but them is an idiot and, at the same time, be completely blind to all the positive elements in the text. Every time I've seen something addressed as "problematic" I've found out it wasn't "problematic" in itself, the sjw's interpretation purposely twisted it and made it look so. It's too easy to just misinterpret something, cry "think of children!!" and end up with censorship.

Except I've seen "death of the author" being brought up to dismiss a lot of interpretations different from yours for no reason except the "critic" didn't want to admit their confirmation bias. No honey, I don't think you're wrong because the author told me so, I think you're wrong because the text itself shows you so.

How about we learn to enjoy stories as stories without assuming everything is to be treated like american biblethumpers treat the Bible instead?

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