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The [Ready Player One] Quarantine Thread
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That's clearly the one they want you to pick
You have to consider the psychology of the enemy, Raijin
I mean, having read both, RPO still isn't nearly as misogynistic as Twiligjt.
God damn I hope the timing of this is intentional, because it is the sickest of burns.
How can it be a satire when it wallows in consumer culture happy as a pig in shit?
What a terrible book.
my headcanon is that Second Life still actually exists in the RPO world, and that's where the "real weirdos" go to hang out.
(i'd probably be one of those, "hating" on the mainstream Oasis users)
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Whether that’s enough to elevate it to “good” remains to be seen, though not until it’s on Netflix or something because fuuuuck paying to see it in theater
My guess is it will be improved enough to go through a similar cycle to the book - good reviews initially from people buying into the hype/pandering, but over time it will be seen in less flattering light.
Like he straight ran out of ideas, even other people's, and just went okay aaaaaaand we're done
Just because it's "pretty normal" (by which I'm assuming you mean "common" rather than the more questionable "healthy") or accurate to 18-year-olds doesn't make it not transphobic.
I would say that you're probably the only person who thinks it's something that needs defending.
it's hyper-specific to someone who "hasn't had a sex change" which in and of itself is a transphobic way to say it
and then it's clear that the idea of being trans and having had any sort of surgery or medication is gross and wrong
That love never really bothered me because I'm guilty of being a pretty shitty teenager on the internet back in the day who used to ask a stupid question during my AOL days.
I didn't know any better, went to a really Christian school, and while my Dad tried to teach me how to Not Be A Dick from a young age those sorts of topics never came up because he had no experience with them either
Doesn't mean I wasn't being homophobic and transphobic as a kid, or that I was right, or that it was okay
it just was
To deride the book as a transphobic screed might be a little overblown, but I don't think anyone really does that. They just say that it contains transphobia and stars a character who says transphobic things, which it inarguably does.
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It's okay to like this book, but maybe don't use a slur so casually, especially when plenty of folks on this forum are trans
It's...a bit gauche
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When that character is a blatant Mary Sue
Yeah, we do
If those characters are unambiguous heroes in the text, to the point of being author avatars, I would suggest that this is a pretty easy question to answer.
Now, might I have been in a similar place myself once? Certainly. I wouldn't guarantee that Cline is homophobic/transphobic in the year of our lord two thousand and eighteen, but I'd certainly say he has some ground to make up.
but the nature of the relationship in the book is coated in a layer of both transphobia and sexism (and weird creepy stalker behaviour) by the damn hero character and none of it is every really presented as "he's a fucking kid saying stupid shit"
so it just hammers those ideals into the protagonist as "normal" or "okay" or whatever and never questions that
so yeah it's pretty gross
So what's your opinion on 'Three Billboards'? Cause I had way more offense towards that movie.
impossible to know
but if he put that stuff in there intentionally, then probably yes
if he put it in there unintentionally, then he's probably naive and pretty privileged that he never thought about what that stuff would mean (and he still could be transphobic and homophobic IRL)
either way, not a good look
So the whole "well, it's part of how teenagers act" excuse really doesn't fly with the rest of the narrative that the book has.
I haven't seen it but my understanding is all of the character in that movie are some combination of awful and broken, as opposed to being presented as heroic author stand-ins.
Even still, I'd probably still find it uncomfortable if there are a lot of slurs even if they're come from someone we're not supposed to cheer for.
I have not seen it.
Aech/Helen's sexuality is never addressed in the movie, and Wade's shock over seeing her in person disappears quick and he just accepts that that's who she is - no time is really spent on that beyond the first "I'm here and I'm rescuing you" bit.
Where's the good fanfiction thread?
I merged it with the dead fanfiction thread.
I mean hell, I read a lot of Wheel of Time at that age, I did not have the ability to discern for quality
But I've grown up and tried to expand my perceptions and I think for a lot of people on this forum specifically, recent events like GG and essentially all of 2016 on have really forced people to examine their own a bit more. Though I think more positively, more diverse voices in actually audible places calling that stuff out also helps
It's harder to wear blinders and pretend everything is, in fact, fine and normal and equal when it comes to media, though that hasn't filtered out to the mainstream yet to the same degree. It plays a big part in the reactions here versus elsewhere.
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Are you saying that having a sexual dispreference for trans folk is inherently transphobic?
It turns out the Oasis we see has only SFW options toggled. All the NSFW is still there, but it's intangible and invisible. Every scene of the movie there are at least fifty unseen people indulging any and all kinds of fantasy kinks at all times.
You have to turn on the 18+ filters.
Are you doing a bit right now