"ask ourselves twice whether we want to grow toward the ideology presented by a work" --> that.
based on your questions, i'm getting the sense you think i was vying towards something more Grand and Universal and Procalamation-y than what i was intending; i've made it obvious before that "zomg can't like anything problematic!" is also ferociously irksome to me, and i don't think i could make any sort of Grand Proclamations anyway. this case-in-point was more interesting because here was something massively "problematic" and no one in an ostensibly-rather-progressive group of people seemed to notice. in this scenario, yeah, it's worth doing a double-take. even if you end up deciding that the author's viewpoint is right, at least you didn't do it unthinkingly. the old jesuit "your relationship with god will grow closer if you spend a ton of time questioning everything about it" thing, etc etc
obviously there are other scenarios where you're better off just losing yourself in the story but that's not the scenario i was speaking to here.
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Date: 2017-05-31 01:11 am (UTC)based on your questions, i'm getting the sense you think i was vying towards something more Grand and Universal and Procalamation-y than what i was intending; i've made it obvious before that "zomg can't like anything problematic!" is also ferociously irksome to me, and i don't think i could make any sort of Grand Proclamations anyway. this case-in-point was more interesting because here was something massively "problematic" and no one in an ostensibly-rather-progressive group of people seemed to notice. in this scenario, yeah, it's worth doing a double-take. even if you end up deciding that the author's viewpoint is right, at least you didn't do it unthinkingly. the old jesuit "your relationship with god will grow closer if you spend a ton of time questioning everything about it" thing, etc etc
obviously there are other scenarios where you're better off just losing yourself in the story but that's not the scenario i was speaking to here.