#the top review of the paper menagerie collection is a white guy being like oh and the titular story is about like memory bla bla | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

cruelsister-moved2 · 10 months

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i really feel like ken liu was just like oh so really bad things happen to women, especially marginalised women and sex workers, under imperialism and colonialism. so i should just like show horrible things happening to women all the time and women being pushed into sex work because of imperialism. aaaand my work here is done #realism #gender

#i literally cant put my finger on it all but its just. sooo...#he has like a whole story abt SWs being murdered by a john #and the framing was just soooo off to me #like we also barely see the girls as human we just see them through the eyes of the guy murdering them #and the stoic traumatised cop woman also doesnt really humanise them #idk i hate when i hated something and idk how to explain why but #everyone ive talked to who read it was like.erm #and apparently he does it in his longform fiction as well #which i feel like has the potential to be even worse bc he can expand characters way more so if he STILL doesnt for women..#the top review of the paper menagerie collection is a white guy being like oh and the titular story is about like memory bla bla #and doesnt mention gender at ALL like i loved that story but again the framing of the mother was kind of callous and weird #even though to me she was really or shouldve been the main character rather than her son #but its like i guess you could be making a POINT about us only seeing her through her son etc etc whcih is why i liked it but then people a #clearly not interpreting it that way

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