Do we need to talk again about how female protags get called Mary Sues more often then male protags, and why?
@jennygadget Enh, issues like writing to formula and trope overuse are valid points to critique, aren't they?
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@chaosprime not when 1) the tropes they are talking about so closely match traditional complaints about Mary SuesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@chaosprime and considering 2) the history of who traditionally writes Mary Sues (teen girls writing fanfic)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@chaosprime and 3) which genre is being mocked (the genre that gets read by teen girls)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@chaosprime and not when 4) the piece concludes by praising another trope-y genre.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@jennygadget It just seems more like they were critiquing What People Think of YA than, y'know, actual YA. -
@chaosprime O.o if so, they totally failed. bc that's not how I read it, that's not how the authors I follow read it. -
@jennygadget I didn't mean that they were critiquing people's attitudes, but that they were substituting those attitudes for a real survey. -
@chaosprime which is useful crit how? -
@jennygadget I'm saying it's not, and that it would've been a better piece if researched more deeply than by reference to stereotype. -
@jennygadget I mean, just lumping THG in the blonde-and-brunette-love-triangle bin, by itself, is a crime against written communication. - End of conversation
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