The Tradëscan Codex

I think a normative approach to language use at all class levels is inherently classist. It is essentially people with privilege coming into less privileged communities, telling them they are fucked up, and telling them the only way not to be fucked up is to act the way the outsiders want them to act. Is that so difficult to understand?

I don't condone the use of racial or gender or homophobic slurs at any level and when I go home I make it known that I don't want these things said in my presence. But I'm aware that I'm mostly benefitting myself there as what I'm essentially doing is making my own language environment more comfortable, not staying there and working with people. I don't want to live there. But because I don't want to live there (and people who don't know me no longer recognise me as someone who belongs there, because I no longer dress or act the way they do and only have the accent when I'm tired), I'm not someone they're going to listen to any longer than they have to, unless they're family or old friends, and I deal with that.

I also do not think SPN glorifies anything that anyone says; it just presents things as they are. (One of the things that makes me very uncomfortable about academic fandom is that I often feel they want all of their shows and all of our fics to present the characters as Good Role Models, not real people!)

I don't fault anyone who doesn't watch it or doesn't want to write fic for it. Mostly, I get in arguments over it with other people who are also fans. I also don't want to read an SPN fic where the characters all talk like they read metafandom and debunkingwhite and feminist, mostly because it would be OOC and I would be looking at it thinking, "who is this person and what has he done with Dean?"