“There is a common attack on art that thinks it is a defense. It is the argument that art has no impact on our lives, that art is not dangerous, and therefore all art is beyond reproach, and we have no grounds to object to any of it, and any objection is censorship.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve encountered that view (specifically about SF, from someone who I suspect was some sort of puppy – it was a random encounter on another person’s G+ comment thread, so I can’t be sure). I disagree with it profoundly. Who we represent in media, and how we represent them, matters, because it both reflects and shapes how we, as a society, think about our fellow humans. That’s what I mean when I say that fiction is political.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(via MrsA Wiggins)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Originally shared by Chloe CD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n […]I was trying to articulate that there is a canonical body of literature in which women\u2019s stories are taken away from them, in which all we get are men\u2019s stories. And that these are sometimes not only books that don\u2019t describe the world from a woman\u2019s point of view, but inculcate denigration and degradation of women as cool things to do.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n