tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post3186199340880028007..comments2024-01-25T12:15:23.886+00:00Comments on aaru tuesday: Truth & consequences in the stories we tell.thenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11851538869806389235noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-40406389357388195222008-06-04T05:18:00.000+01:002008-06-04T05:18:00.000+01:00EKSwitaj said..."when we leave ourselves behind an...EKSwitaj said...<BR/><BR/><I>"when we leave ourselves behind and go to places where we have infinite power, and can blow up whatever we like, we're almost always asked to identify with white, heterosexual upper-class men."<BR/><BR/> Well, of course. Giving that kind of power to someone who doesn't usually have power would be a revolution.</I><BR/><BR/>Or more likely, if the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-32186779135692913622008-06-02T21:28:00.000+01:002008-06-02T21:28:00.000+01:00I should add - though the authors of Grand Theft C...I should add - though the authors of <I>Grand Theft Childhood</I> see gaming as cathartic and think that is a good thing (they even found that teenagers who <I>don't</I> game are more likely to commit crimes - doubtless both of those things are the result of poverty), it was not me who said that, and I'm not so attached to the point anyway. Catharsis is a pretty simplistic concept, which I thenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851538869806389235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-12025212565029783572008-06-02T16:16:00.000+01:002008-06-02T16:16:00.000+01:00I still haven't read much of it >I still haven't read much of it >< I should do that today, in fact.thenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851538869806389235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-85184707313139030252008-06-02T06:45:00.000+01:002008-06-02T06:45:00.000+01:00I think I'm actually going to do a full post on th...I think I'm actually going to do a full post on this entire thing -- so I'm not going to rant on here. Suffice to say there's a reason why I said what I did. Secondly -- I don't know how much of my thesis you read -- there's certain elements in what you wrote that seem distinctly familiar -- but, in short, there are also psychological studies that show that catharsis doesn't actually happen in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-30355187106137201652008-06-02T00:49:00.000+01:002008-06-02T00:49:00.000+01:00"when we leave ourselves behind and go to places w..."when we leave ourselves behind and go to places where we have infinite power, and can blow up whatever we like, we're almost always asked to identify with white, heterosexual upper-class men."<BR/><BR/>Well, of course. Giving that kind of power to someone who doesn't usually have power would be a revolution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-12749870571600080422008-06-01T21:00:00.000+01:002008-06-01T21:00:00.000+01:00-I think A Town Like Alice is a decent template fo...-I think <I>A Town Like Alice</I> is a decent template for a Woman Builds Stuff story; it just failed at being convincing. The Woman in question tootled around fulfilling our fantasies about survival and romance. She then realises the romance part isn't working out because Australia's Northern Territory sucks. So she sets out, with a few dead crocodiles and a big pile of money, to make it not thenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851538869806389235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-1785684753486915472008-06-01T18:01:00.000+01:002008-06-01T18:01:00.000+01:00Agreed, mostly. But there's a rant incoming. I c...Agreed, mostly. But there's a rant incoming. I can feel it.<BR/><BR/>What would it be like to write a story where Woman Builds Shit? Alas, I'm not certain. I don't, in general, read or write Man Builds Shit stories. They aren't my thing. I don't understand them. I prefer Person Explores Philosophical Themes Through Nigh-Infinite Cosmic Power and Probably Destroys a Lot of Shit Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3310141367986647635.post-17332605584978874292008-05-30T11:13:00.000+01:002008-05-30T11:13:00.000+01:00"when we leave ourselves behind and go to places w..."when we leave ourselves behind and go to places where we have infinite power, and can blow up whatever we like, we're almost always asked to identify with white, heterosexual upper-class men."<BR/><BR/>*is more happy than ever before that her place involving application of infinite power to blow up of everything in sight requires identification with a mixed-race-but-broadly-South-Asian, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com