Oh, so I learned a new word reading your comment (kyriarchy). That's nice.
I hadn't thought about it quite in terms of colonization, but yeah, that problem is difficult and interests me. There are rights some people (myself included, most the time) see as universal and so we seek to give those rights on others, when really what we're doing is imposing our culture onto others, saying our culture is better and right. And yet there are those who would choose our culture and the rights that come with it over their own. And I think they have a right to choose. But is that right to choose also something I'm imposing?
fandom as post-colonial space
Isn't anyone who is writing or trying to express themselves using words that come preloaded? Unless it's someone at the top of the kyriarchy trying to express ideas that are perfectly in sync with the kyriarchy it's going to be a problem. Even in that case, I think the individual is oppressed by canon (by which I mean all literature. And art. And forms of expression, basically). We most of us do have singular individual things to say, and it is difficult to differentiate that singularity from the cacophony that has come before. I'm not sure my being a woman makes that particular difficulty . . . more difficult.
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I hadn't thought about it quite in terms of colonization, but yeah, that problem is difficult and interests me. There are rights some people (myself included, most the time) see as universal and so we seek to give those rights on others, when really what we're doing is imposing our culture onto others, saying our culture is better and right. And yet there are those who would choose our culture and the rights that come with it over their own. And I think they have a right to choose. But is that right to choose also something I'm imposing?
fandom as post-colonial space
Isn't anyone who is writing or trying to express themselves using words that come preloaded? Unless it's someone at the top of the kyriarchy trying to express ideas that are perfectly in sync with the kyriarchy it's going to be a problem. Even in that case, I think the individual is oppressed by canon (by which I mean all literature. And art. And forms of expression, basically). We most of us do have singular individual things to say, and it is difficult to differentiate that singularity from the cacophony that has come before. I'm not sure my being a woman makes that particular difficulty . . . more difficult.