Ugh, no, I stopped following bsc_snark when it became more about being mean (and ridiculing) than about being funny (and gently making fun of something you genuinely loved as a kid). I looked at those posts and ugh. It's more about being an SJW-buzzword using, haha look at how ignorant authors were in the 80s, we're oh-so-superior because we're ~aware~ of the fact that any sort of behavior can be made into an "ist" and/or pathologized. Spare me the lectures, you know? BSC, for all its cheesetastic glory, was a damn good series aimed at middle school girls that showed the value of female friendships. So it wasn't perfect. So it's dated. So the author was stuck in the 50s (I liked the point that person made about how we reference our own childhood when writing about kids, mostly unknowingly). There's more right than wrong.
I hate to be all, "you're interrogating the text from the wrong perspective," but to me, that's exactly what these people are doing - tearing apart something that was never meant to hold the values these people claims it fails at.
And yes, I agree that moment in Hello Mallory is an actual, realistic example of blatant racism and how it manifests itself in "civilized" society. I don't get what's so hard about recognizing that, or realizing how it might influence a tween in the throes of change. The time warp meant they never really matured, even if they lived their lives for 20 years on a loop.
Just - ugh. So tedious, and so very much missing the point. I miss the days when people laughed from a good place, you know?
I thought you'd jumped ship from the snark, but I wasn't 100% positive. I mostly ignore the more recent snarks because the times I don't, they tend to be mean and unfunny. Or, y'know, they go way overboard on looking at the series without accepting the context of the time or the constraints of the series. (Huzzah for the person pointing out that Watson used a lot of sitters because it's a series about babysitters.)
I still enjoy when people point out that hey, you could argue for realism's sake that Watson is a great stepfather but an awful father to his biological children and do so in a post of it's own. It's one thing to poke at the series for conversation and it's another to set the thing on fire and laugh as it burns because things don't hold up to today's views.
Loved the bit about writing to your own childhood so if nothing else, this did bring that about.
Still, I definitely prefer when people poke at the series but you can tell they still enjoy it.
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Date: 2014-06-24 12:59 am (UTC)I hate to be all, "you're interrogating the text from the wrong perspective," but to me, that's exactly what these people are doing - tearing apart something that was never meant to hold the values these people claims it fails at.
And yes, I agree that moment in Hello Mallory is an actual, realistic example of blatant racism and how it manifests itself in "civilized" society. I don't get what's so hard about recognizing that, or realizing how it might influence a tween in the throes of change. The time warp meant they never really matured, even if they lived their lives for 20 years on a loop.
Just - ugh. So tedious, and so very much missing the point. I miss the days when people laughed from a good place, you know?
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Date: 2014-06-24 02:00 am (UTC)I still enjoy when people point out that hey, you could argue for realism's sake that Watson is a great stepfather but an awful father to his biological children and do so in a post of it's own. It's one thing to poke at the series for conversation and it's another to set the thing on fire and laugh as it burns because things don't hold up to today's views.
Loved the bit about writing to your own childhood so if nothing else, this did bring that about.
Still, I definitely prefer when people poke at the series but you can tell they still enjoy it.