Oh, don't even get me STARTED on Memoirs of a Geisha. (I did try to read it, incidentally, and never made it past the first chapter. Boring, boring, boring, boring.)
Thing is, I'm strongly inclusive when it comes to texts like that. I do think -- a few notable appropriative exceptions aside -- that in general, outsiders can bring more to the table, can add the harmony. It's just that there's little point in having a whole bunch of folks humming the harmony if they're drowning out the group trying to sing the melody. That's where I do start to get annoyed, and suddenly find myself just a bit less gleefully inclusive than I'd usually be.
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Thing is, I'm strongly inclusive when it comes to texts like that. I do think -- a few notable appropriative exceptions aside -- that in general, outsiders can bring more to the table, can add the harmony. It's just that there's little point in having a whole bunch of folks humming the harmony if they're drowning out the group trying to sing the melody. That's where I do start to get annoyed, and suddenly find myself just a bit less gleefully inclusive than I'd usually be.