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China has a weird approach to misogyny. Women are both empowered and belittled, and it's all over the media. Anybody who's read the three body problem trilogy (especially book 3) can attest to this.
Especially book 3?? I stopped reading after the second because it was too much, it gets worse? wtf
Yes, so much worse, directed at both men for not being manly enough and women for being... well, not manly men.
I wrote off the novel when the author said that the Chinese people weren't ready for democracy
What gets worse?
The start of this very short thread is:
I assume that's what gets worse.
The video series tried so hard to downplay that aspect of the books, but it felt like their overall plan was to plaster over & repaint the stains... until the whole thing was rotted through and the mask just slid right off. 😬
Don't bother with video series.
Read the content to enjoy what value exists, and criticize what issues exist. Reading is not voting or aligning, it's observing.
I agree, but with a caveat. Pirate things from people who publicly espouse shitty views. Purchasing it is justifying it. JK Rowling has explicitly said she feels more empowered to be awful because people keep buying Harry Potter stuff.
Fandom is endorsement; the HP IP has become a huge anti-trans flag.
Every time people invoke it, they wave that flag some more, and mark it as an acceptable thing to stand under.
Let it die, both financially and culturally.
Arr matey.
We're talking about pirating books? Nah, go to a library. They need the numbers to get funding.
All of what you said is true, and I mildly regret giving the video series a chance, NGL. Also, that last bit doesn't really jive with totalitarian states like PRC's China. 😶
Huh? What do you mean about the last bit
Oh, well, fuckem, why would I consider them?
I don't think about totalitarian states at all, outside of specific conversations about em
Because, that's where the author is from? 😶
That's fair but my original comment in thread was my personal opinion on consuming written content.
I'm not sure you're grasping the weight of the fact that such a work of post-hunanism fiction even made it out of China at all, given the government's centuries-long tradition of heavily-filtering "art" in every form...
(edit: I'm leaving the misspelling in for the stupid pun.)
No, I agree, that's of interest. But my comment was my opinion about how the rest of us can consume written media.
Oh, I didn't know that you were excluding 1.4B people in the general statement. My bad. 😅
Obviously as a western commenter, sharing my own opinion on media consumption, I'm only speaking to the sphere of ... Reality, which I inhabit.
There's so much to unpack there. 😅
Who cares?
Like I didn't think of the Taliban when I wrote it either.
Shared my opinion for the world I live in.
I read the whole series and somehow missed this, I did chalk up a lot of things to "must be a chinese cultural thing", like the whole idea of all nations actually working together or globally banning "escapism" and just suspended my disbelief, so maybe I glossed over that bit as well. Is there a good article that dives into this?
E: Found this article, that goes into it as well as other issues, well worth a read