the kinds of critiques of privilege that get made more and more often in fandom are not the dominant US discourses but critiques of them, and that's why it annoys people so much when they are countered with slightly different dominant discourses from a different (but not all that radically different at the end of the day) location.
Thanks for that. I have a tendency these days to knee-jerk to a default 'it's the bloody Yanks thinking everyone is the same as them again' position. It interferes with my ability to express things calmly so it is good to have an alternative POV stated.
One of the problems is that as the largest minority nationality on LJ, we Brits tend to dominate the non-US centric discourse ourselves, so as with largest minorities everywhere we have a tendency to think we are always right :oD
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Date: 2008-02-27 07:38 am (UTC)Thanks for that. I have a tendency these days to knee-jerk to a default 'it's the bloody Yanks thinking everyone is the same as them again' position. It interferes with my ability to express things calmly so it is good to have an alternative POV stated.
One of the problems is that as the largest minority nationality on LJ, we Brits tend to dominate the non-US centric discourse ourselves, so as with largest minorities everywhere we have a tendency to think we are always right :oD
Of course in my case I always am right ;o)