Bias and privilege also play a huge role. With McCaffrey's Pegasus in Flight, for instance - which started this whole thread and idea - as a white kid reading that book growing up, I was oblivious to the casual racism directed at other cultures and races, bc it didn't impact me.
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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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This, so much. I am CONSTANTLY un-learning Star Trek, and I will critique its extremely questionable ideas about gender, colonialism and oh-god-please-stop objectification/exoticization of Indigenous peoples.
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But it was a part of my childhood that gave me a lot of comfort, and I can love what it meant for me growing up and appreciate the good things it was trying to say, without making excuses for its many glaring flaws.
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