Crucially, we're always changing and growing. Our awareness of the world changes, just as our surrounding culture changes, and that can have a seismic impact when it comes to our memory of old books vs the reality of them.
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Especially for white and otherwise privileged SFF fans, I do think it's important to reckon with how much racism (and homophobia, and sexism, and other bigotries) was casually and not-so-casually simmering in many of our foundational stories, and how that might've shaped us.
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Does that mean we have to wholesale disavow our affection or nostalgia for those stories? Of course not! But there's a difference between saying "this book was important to me despite its problems" and "because this book was important to me, it can have no problems."
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ANYWAY. I really need to go to bed, but I'm going to keep chewing on these thoughts because I think it really matters. FIN
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I recently re-read many books in the Pern series, books that provided me with (I thought) female heroes when I was young. It was pretty upsetting to see how these "strong" women were portrayed: stubborn, silly, frantic. Men would actually shake them to get their attention?
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