So why should that mean that people like me don't get to exist in fiction? Why is a happy bisexual more "edgy" than a fucking unicorn?
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@chaosprime@seananmcguire Not so. Unicorns were highly sexualized symbols before they left Medieval texts and sauntered into kids' books. -
@ShanBarnsley@seananmcguire i realize that and find it very interesting, but the mass market does not react to what symbols *used* to mean -
@chaosprime@seananmcguire Little Red Riding Hood's crimson cape disagrees. -
@ShanBarnsley@seananmcguire we can talk all day about how symbols *should* be regarded as edgy if we were reading them closely; so what? -
@ShanBarnsley@seananmcguire the question is why X is seen as edgy and Y isn't, & the answer is that Y fits in a culturally constructed box -
@ShanBarnsley@seananmcguire or, more precisely, is understood to fit in that box even if it doesn't remotely do so on a close reading -
@ShanBarnsley@seananmcguire in some ways that's good because it can facilitate slipping all kinds of things past the censors -
@ShanBarnsley like i bet@seananmcguire could write a book about a happy bi *unicorn* that would be regarded as "just about unicorns" - 1 more reply
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