"Oh my liberal friends who get so uncomfortable when I make similar arguments IRL must be so not pleased."
Well, I'm not pleased and am deeply uncomfortable, but fandom in general (which skews liberal, no?) seems to not care. So I guess what I'm wondering, why the hell not?
Okay, actually my immediate reaction is to interrogate what political statement Joss is making.
Mine too, insofar as "Joss" we mean the author-function of the text rather than the biographical human being. I have a pretty good sense what Joss Whedon the man would think of Bush's wiretapping, but I have serious doubts what the author-function of Buffy that I construct when I watch the episodes "would" think. And this is the same problem I have with my own fiction: I know what I think about various things, but they seem to be at odds with the views of the author-function "Alixtii O'Krul" which I construct when I read my own fic. And I'm just not sure how to respond to this fact, which I find in some ways problematic.
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Well, I'm not pleased and am deeply uncomfortable, but fandom in general (which skews liberal, no?) seems to not care. So I guess what I'm wondering, why the hell not?
Okay, actually my immediate reaction is to interrogate what political statement Joss is making.
Mine too, insofar as "Joss" we mean the author-function of the text rather than the biographical human being. I have a pretty good sense what Joss Whedon the man would think of Bush's wiretapping, but I have serious doubts what the author-function of Buffy that I construct when I watch the episodes "would" think. And this is the same problem I have with my own fiction: I know what I think about various things, but they seem to be at odds with the views of the author-function "Alixtii O'Krul" which I construct when I read my own fic. And I'm just not sure how to respond to this fact, which I find in some ways problematic.