She literally wrote this whole goddamn thing about how "You can't say that Jane Eyre, the character, is racist, because the author, Charlotte Bronte, liked Jane Eyre and wanted us to think of her as the hero, and being a racist entails judging her as bad"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
That is hilarious and fragile AF. Why am I not (still) in grad school right now
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Replying to @klarth
I do on some level think it's really funny that people get PhDs in the kind of fandom discourse we used to spend all night on LiveJournal arguing about And that Doc Stock's take on this question is so fucking stupid it would get her laughed out of the room instantly
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Replying to @arthur_affect @klarth
"Okay you can't use the word 'racist' for what the protagonist of the Turner Diaries is, because 'racist' means 'bad' and IN THE UNIVERSE OF THE STORY AS IMAGINED BY THE AUTHOR his white supremacist beliefs are noble and correct" Basement-tier dogshit takes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @klarth
Like if you actually seriously believed this then almost all critical discourse would instantly become impossible Of any kind "You can't say this movie is 'dumb' and 'boring' because the creators intended it to be good and fun"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @klarth
She got a PhD for a long-winded version of the "Shh let people enjoy things" comic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @klarth
Oh, also her piece on Jane Eyre revealed she hadn't read Jane Eyre, or at least hadn't read it in a very long time -- she confused Jane Eyre with the fanfic/unauthorized sequel Wide Sargasso Sea (she says Bertha's real name is Antoinette, a fact Jean Rhys invented for WSS)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @klarth
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@arthur_affect did you just call Jean Rhys' work fanfic? FANFIC? (And it wouldn't be either 1) unauthorized, nor, 2) a sequel.)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @msanthropetweet @klarth
Sorry, prequel And yes, it is obviously unauthorized and fits the definition of fanfic Fanfic is good
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Replying to @arthur_affect @klarth
It is not "unauthorized." Jane Eyre is in the public domain. There is literally no one/entity to "authorize" any use. And it is not "fanfic" as Jean Rhys was not a fan of Jane Eyre. Did you not realize that? It seems you missed the point of the work.
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