The question I keep coming back to is, how can we get men to stop thinking that if we tell our own stories, that means that men always lose.
I see this fear a lot--directed against women, or against LGTBQ folks, or POC, or even simply against people who want to write something that varies the standard tale in some other way. People seem to think that having new voices or new types of tale means that the old versions--the ones in which everyone is white and heterosexual and conforms to very clearcut gender roles, etc.--are going to vanish. But they're not! People really don't have to worry. It's like worrying that legal gay marriage is going to somehow limit heterosexual marriage.
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Date: 2013-10-14 02:37 am (UTC)I see this fear a lot--directed against women, or against LGTBQ folks, or POC, or even simply against people who want to write something that varies the standard tale in some other way. People seem to think that having new voices or new types of tale means that the old versions--the ones in which everyone is white and heterosexual and conforms to very clearcut gender roles, etc.--are going to vanish. But they're not! People really don't have to worry. It's like worrying that legal gay marriage is going to somehow limit heterosexual marriage.