And there's a few others--national origin separate from race, disability, and so on. But race/gender/religion are the big three, and I believe they're universal; the others vary.
I looked at the other post. Gah. Bunch of fandoms I don't know. Dr. Who is the only one I've actually seen. (I've watched I think two episode of Buffy. Same of Supernatural.)
It's meta I'm very interested in, but it's hard to chime in with agreement or counterpoints 'cos I don't know canon well enough. And much of the discussion talked about British class concepts... which was nicely informative, but not directly useful.
Part of me thinks that US classism parallels UK racism, and vice-versa... there's a big claim on the part of the privileged that "no such thing exists here, or if it does, it's little pockets of bigotry, not institutionalized prejudice." But I don't know enough about UK society to know if it's a reasonable comparison.
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Date: 2008-05-27 05:27 pm (UTC)And there's a few others--national origin separate from race, disability, and so on. But race/gender/religion are the big three, and I believe they're universal; the others vary.
I looked at the other post.
Gah. Bunch of fandoms I don't know. Dr. Who is the only one I've actually seen. (I've watched I think two episode of Buffy. Same of Supernatural.)
It's meta I'm very interested in, but it's hard to chime in with agreement or counterpoints 'cos I don't know canon well enough. And much of the discussion talked about British class concepts... which was nicely informative, but not directly useful.
Part of me thinks that US classism parallels UK racism, and vice-versa... there's a big claim on the part of the privileged that "no such thing exists here, or if it does, it's little pockets of bigotry, not institutionalized prejudice." But I don't know enough about UK society to know if it's a reasonable comparison.