Date: 20 Mar 2011 04:57 pm (UTC)
soukup: Quentin Crisp is my personal hero (qc)
From: [personal profile] soukup
I think the most fascinating/frustrating part of WtGA -- for me, at least -- was her use of the terms "we," "us" and "our" to refer to her (implicitly homogeneous) generation. I kept trying to decide whether it was a calculated move, or a mark of how the author actually thinks about herself and her peers in her own mind. Some of both, probably.

It did bug me a lot that that group was mostly white/middle-class/cis/hetero, of course; though I suppose that that demographic was the target audience of much of the media she was discussing, so in a way it does make sense to be curious about and want to investigate that group's reaction. I just wish she'd made that distinction explicitly instead of letting the implication stand that her book was written for everyone, you know? :/
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