As far as the fic: I am not conflicted. It took the things I love about fandom, about RPS fandom, and broke all of the rules in a way that was meant to hurt and humiliate Ogi and Sai. I couldn't even read it, because where the art stepped on my buttons, the fic smashed through them and pushed me so far out the other side of uncomfortable and angry that there was nothing left to be conflicted over.
As for the pic? ... Time passes, and while I still don't agree with some people's interpretations of the art, I've realized that I don't have to agree with them. None of us are interrogating the art from the wrong perspective, after all, and for the people who agree with the pic, and the artist's method of protest, that picture is a valuable statement.
Even though there were several pieces of protest work that I could have posted my thoughts about, I posted about the art because I could see and study it. The fics I couldn't finish reading though, and I feel that my incomplete reading might have led me to blunder in ways that are more offensive than I found the original fics. But I decided to share what I did to him because, having read part of the fics, and seen the art, what they reminded me of was that feeling of closing the locker door. They made me feel mean inside, and although I'm sure that the authors and artist never intended for that reaction to occur, that's what I felt.
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5/9/09 22:01 (UTC)As far as the fic: I am not conflicted. It took the things I love about fandom, about RPS fandom, and broke all of the rules in a way that was meant to hurt and humiliate Ogi and Sai. I couldn't even read it, because where the art stepped on my buttons, the fic smashed through them and pushed me so far out the other side of uncomfortable and angry that there was nothing left to be conflicted over.
As for the pic? ... Time passes, and while I still don't agree with some people's interpretations of the art, I've realized that I don't have to agree with them. None of us are interrogating the art from the wrong perspective, after all, and for the people who agree with the pic, and the artist's method of protest, that picture is a valuable statement.
Even though there were several pieces of protest work that I could have posted my thoughts about, I posted about the art because I could see and study it. The fics I couldn't finish reading though, and I feel that my incomplete reading might have led me to blunder in ways that are more offensive than I found the original fics.
But I decided to share what I did to him because, having read part of the fics, and seen the art, what they reminded me of was that feeling of closing the locker door. They made me feel mean inside, and although I'm sure that the authors and artist never intended for that reaction to occur, that's what I felt.