It's only been recently that I've been able to think about re-reading any of their work (working on separating the author from the book),
You're a much bigger, better person than me because I still haven't gotten there. I can't pick up things by (for example) Orson Scott Card anymore. I did, at one point, love and adore the Ender series so much that I bought all of them in hardback. Now, I can't even stand having them on my shelves. It feels like a violation of the only really safe space I have, and that's my shelf, my house, my inner thoughts.
Just imagine if Romance started bringing up stuff about race and privilege.
Oh yeah, that would be very, very epic. I think there have been some discussions of racefail in Romance on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books (http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/) but nothing consistent. They did take a few book to task for their completely ludicrous portrayals of various Native American peoples with the words "savage" or "wild" in the title as well as the absolutely laughable content inside.
Imagine if ALL genres started doing the same? I think there's a lot of racism that doesn't get spoken about in other places, not just SF/F or Romance. Frankly, I think mainstream literary books could use a good going over. Hell, all American literature could!
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You're a much bigger, better person than me because I still haven't gotten there. I can't pick up things by (for example) Orson Scott Card anymore. I did, at one point, love and adore the Ender series so much that I bought all of them in hardback. Now, I can't even stand having them on my shelves. It feels like a violation of the only really safe space I have, and that's my shelf, my house, my inner thoughts.
Just imagine if Romance started bringing up stuff about race and privilege.
Oh yeah, that would be very, very epic. I think there have been some discussions of racefail in Romance on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books (http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/) but nothing consistent. They did take a few book to task for their completely ludicrous portrayals of various Native American peoples with the words "savage" or "wild" in the title as well as the absolutely laughable content inside.
Imagine if ALL genres started doing the same? I think there's a lot of racism that doesn't get spoken about in other places, not just SF/F or Romance. Frankly, I think mainstream literary books could use a good going over. Hell, all American literature could!