+1 on this. Somehow it's never a problem when I mention I haven't been able to get into something because I'm an aerospace engineer and I can't manage to suspend my disbelief over the physics, but if I don't want to read something because I find the politics or some set of social assumptions on the part of the characters or author objectionable (unless it's trendy to hate it, like Twilight), I suddenly become "oversensitive." Unless there are a bunch of equations on the page (sometimes even then), I'm reading for fun. Not wanting to spend my leisure time pissed off is not some crime against auctorial freedom.
Also, people do point out the racism and sexism in LotR. David Brin's essay about it is a classic.
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Re: hoo boy, this opens up a can of worms....
Date: 2010-05-05 07:17 pm (UTC)Also, people do point out the racism and sexism in LotR. David Brin's essay about it is a classic.