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Filippa: No offence, but you're something of a teacher's pet.
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people on this website be likeĀ āitās actually schoolās fault that i donāt know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway hereās a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?ā
i KNOW most of yāall are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today
this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them
this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isnāt ā1984 is goodā, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself.Ā and like secondly in 1984 youāre supposed to think damn itās fucked up that heās thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of āa society like this will fuck you in the headā? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist youāre supposed to agree with everything he does?
You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist.Ā
When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasnāt with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasnāt about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective.Ā
No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you donāt read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someoneās head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or readĀ āThe Great Gatsbyā not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream.Ā
A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something likeĀ āI love the Great Gatsbyā it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-itās about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you donāt justĀ āadmireā or find that characterĀ ācompellingā it now translates toĀ āyou LOVE that characterā or youĀ āDIRECTLY relate to that character.āĀ
You canāt sayĀ āI love how Humbert is written, itās so fascinating and darkā, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them ourĀ āworshipā as itās become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions.Ā
I think thatās why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. Weāre treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We donāt NEED to like the character. Or we donāt HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how theyāre written or intrigued by their behavior.Ā
I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations weād be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are.Ā
Seriously!Ā
And this is whereĀ āunhealthy relationshipsā in fiction come in too. Well-written, complex stories of bad relationships arenāt supposed to be good and healthy examples. If itās held up that way (Twilight), then the issue is the writing and the writer. Unhealthy relationships in, say, Anna KareninaĀ are obviously unhealthy but they are, to misquote James JoyceĀ āportals to discovery.ā You can know that a fictional relationships is seriously bad and still find it interesting. Psychology! Complexity!Ā
Also I want to add that some characters (Humbert Humbert is a good one) are written so that if and when you find yourself sympathizing or saying āYeah, I know that feelingā youāre supposed to stop and consider that. Not in terms of āI am a sick individual and deserve to die.ā but more like āis it possible to have compassion for terrible people?ā and āwhat is it in our culture or my upbringing that makes me think like I do?ā
Iāve heard way too many people sayĀ āI will never read LolitaĀ because of what it encouragesā and I justā¦youāre missing the point? Completely? Like, youāre so missing the point that itās almost meta? Youāre not supposed to like Humbert??? Youāre supposed to either be likeĀ āwow, gross, dudeā orĀ āoh fuck, wait, why do I have even 1 thing in common with this guy?ā Nabokov is not going to be straightforward with you!Ā
Itās like the jokes about being mad at your teacher for asking why the sky is blue in a certain book. Maybe there really is a reason. Did you think of that? For a bunch of people whoāll write thesis-length defenses of your favorite ships and trace down one instance in one minute of one episode of the 15 season show to prove that youāre right, it concerns me that youāre not as willing to look at a lot of other things with any depth. To say nothing of multi-chapter fanfic.
If you surround yourself with only good and pure and wholesome media approved by the purity-culture police, then you just donāt get to do a lot of introspection and I think thatās kind of a shame. I feel like it really limits your view of the world.
I dunno. Thereās a weird kind of anti-intellectualism disguised as protection and good intent sometimes. Or it feels like the kind of prudishness that labels some booksĀ ādirtyā and the people who read them equally disgusting, but just relies on social ostracism to enforce the labels. You know,Ā āThink of the children!!āĀ
Anyway, Iām going to go read some dirty, dirty literature now. Like 1984.
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