|
|
TxVoodoo (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} txvoodoo) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunny_fandom, |
With this thread, I'm wondering how I managed to grow up to not be a raving racist asshat, considering I was teeped in Ingalls Wilder, LM Montgomery, and other "problematic" texts.
Oh, wait. Maybe it's because I understood that they were HISTORICAL? Like Louisa May Alcott's early "feminists" where the extent of their feminism was to disdain wearing corsets? Or Jane Austen, where a well-read woman was a bluestocking?
I am seriously perturbed at this retconning of historical works. How can we possibly ever learn how things have changed if we don't acknowledge the past? Isn't it disrespectful to marginilizaed people to not show how they were marginalized?
Oh, wait. Maybe it's because I understood that they were HISTORICAL? Like Louisa May Alcott's early "feminists" where the extent of their feminism was to disdain wearing corsets? Or Jane Austen, where a well-read woman was a bluestocking?
I am seriously perturbed at this retconning of historical works. How can we possibly ever learn how things have changed if we don't acknowledge the past? Isn't it disrespectful to marginilizaed people to not show how they were marginalized?
Post a comment in response:
