When Lifeaffirming = Tired Leitmotif

[skywardprodigal]

Setup: The original version of Nisay garnered some criticism.

darlas_mom asked: "From genocide to celebrity assfucking in ten easy steps? WTF?! How could anyone think that could possibly be okay?!"

I came back with the following:

It's lifeaffirming. The people that live there are poor but happy even though they have much less than the fabulous young lovers.

"We're a couple of rich white guys and we're just on vacation and more in touch with our humanity than ever before." Cue sunset.

Maybe they'll adopt a smiling child and learn more about love and laughter as the child is more in touch with life, nature, and What's Really Important than kids back home.

Comments

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

If I can drop a few cents in, I think you nailed it right on the head. God knows that of all the slash pairings I've seen in RP on LJ (which is pretty much just one step sideways from salh fanfic, and often travels hand-in-hand with these players), I'd say about 98-99% of them could be text book, check off the marks as you go down the list, examples of everything you just said, with maybe variations on whichever male is the 'girl' being a little stronger or a little weaker.

[ingrid-m.livejournal.com]

Oh, and you can also trace the fascination with romantic sibling incest to this time -- it was perhaps the most favortist thing of all back in those days.

Which might be a reason why the SPN fandom, for all its edgy possibilities is probably the most backwards-looking fandom of all.

[skywardprodigal.livejournal.com]

*sneering stronger than Elvis*

Yeah. I now see why so many people call SPN, and SPN fans self-hating racist misogynists.