I mean, I'm not sure I want to say, I'm not into raceplay but YKIOK. And I equally don't want to say, anything to do with sexualized racism is terrible and horrible and nobody should ever fantasize about that or they're bad people.
This goes with the "it's just a preference!" (to only date thin people / white people / etc) argument. People push back really hard against the suggestion that their preference/fantasy is formed by the Dominant Paradigm, but it is, and the least you can do is be aware of it.
And with stuff like race... well, it's sorta similar to exploitation film, isn't it? If you're getting off on someone else's exploitation and then going about your daily life, _that shit aint cool_. But you hardly want to say 'no one should make films about the shitty shit non-white people have to put up with' nor that white people shouldn't enjoy them. So the practical remaining choices are: talk about this stuff; sometimes you do need to call people out on it; remember your intersectionality hat; but at the same time, the folk on the receiving end of that particular axis of privilege should get more talking time. Oh, and no two sufferers of x-oppression are *guaranteed* to have the same response to finding it in their fun-reading space. Some will want to get awaaaay and some will want to engage enthusiastically. So it behooves one to provide content notes.
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Date: 2015-02-27 10:59 am (UTC)This goes with the "it's just a preference!" (to only date thin people / white people / etc) argument. People push back really hard against the suggestion that their preference/fantasy is formed by the Dominant Paradigm, but it is, and the least you can do is be aware of it.
And with stuff like race... well, it's sorta similar to exploitation film, isn't it? If you're getting off on someone else's exploitation and then going about your daily life, _that shit aint cool_. But you hardly want to say 'no one should make films about the shitty shit non-white people have to put up with' nor that white people shouldn't enjoy them. So the practical remaining choices are: talk about this stuff; sometimes you do need to call people out on it; remember your intersectionality hat; but at the same time, the folk on the receiving end of that particular axis of privilege should get more talking time. Oh, and no two sufferers of x-oppression are *guaranteed* to have the same response to finding it in their fun-reading space. Some will want to get awaaaay and some will want to engage enthusiastically. So it behooves one to provide content notes.