#anyway I was absolutely bowled over by the bridgerton treatment of this. unfathomable. I can forgive antihistorical antiracist monarchs but
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re prev post I feel like those mushy utopian fantasy/period pieces stem from a lot of mid 2010s online takes to the effect of “you’re problematic if you choose to write about a world with homophobia and misogyny in it” that didn’t take into account how oppression underpins a lot of the societal structures and tropes of fantasy/genre fiction. not bridgerton though bridgerton sprung to life fully formed with “racism was bad until the king married a Black woman <3” like unto Athena from the head of Zeus
#before I fully understood why those tales were bad i felt bad about them as someone who was really comforted by stories about fantasy#characters facing and sometimes overcoming oppression#^takes#I remember that kind of bad faith argument getting weaponized against stuff like got which has flaws but ‘depicts misogyny’ isnt among them#anyway I was absolutely bowled over by the bridgerton treatment of this. unfathomable. I can forgive antihistorical antiracist monarchs but#I can’t forgive them being so lazy about it#my posts#reading tag
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