Limyaael

I just don't understand why the whole race/gender thing matters so much to some people.

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From Nigel Self:

Could it be because you have the priviledge of it not mattering to *you*?

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Ah. Trotting out that old horse again are we?

"You're privileged, so your opinion doesn't count."

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No, your opinion counts, as does mine as a white man. It is the possibility of your personal experiences influencing your opinion that I am talking about.

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My opinion is: Constantly examining everything (books, TV, movies, elections etc.) through a gender/race lens makes everything a gender/race issue and further serves to compartmentalize the races and the genders by enhancing their differences.

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I should have done this long since, but I didn't want to give you the privilege of my notice. You're banned. Good-bye.

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Wow. Maybe I've missed something this poster did in some other thread, but otherwise this seems absurdly over-harsh. I have seen him critique your writing, harshly, but never in a way that seemed to be particularly mean-spirited so much as blunt and not sugar-coated. Here, it seems to me, he has disagreed with your contention that people of varied races and genders should always be important protagonists, lest the story become sullied by having too many important white males.

I fail to see why either of these could possibly be bannable offenses. It genuinely strikes me as odd.

PS: I don't have a clue if IJ let's you ban IPs, but in case it does, and you're of a mind to do so to me, please don't. My girlfriend is a huge fan of yours and reads your rants regularly on my computer, so doing so would cause her needless pain. If you feel the urge to ban me, instead please just ask that I never post here again, and I will comply. Thank you.

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