I loved this review. I loved it. Before I read this review I was like a fish suffocating, flopping on land. After I read this review I was a fish in the water, comfortable and content.
in that i felt like the story wanted us to side with the article-writer, because she was the Most Outraged, and had been Wronged, and therefore it's not only proper but right for her to write this textbook chapter in this maximally-skewed, snarky fashion, and the people trying to edit her are, like, The System keeping her from speaking truth to power, man.
God this really did put it into words didn't it! I am not going to lie, one of the things I remember about STET is that I was a little indignant because actually, while I am sorry about this author's kid, I do think that woodpeckers still matter and agree that the narrator was not in the right place to be writing a textbook lmao
Anyway yeah. STET was all emotional appeal, as I recall, and very little actual logical underpinning to drive the emotions home. Sort of like eating a cake that's all frosting and no cake... I love frosting very much but it's more delicious with some pastry under it.
Protagonist-centered morality is one of my most hated tropes. Glad to have furnished you with the phrase!
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Date: 2024-06-11 06:03 am (UTC)God this really did put it into words didn't it! I am not going to lie, one of the things I remember about STET is that I was a little indignant because actually, while I am sorry about this author's kid, I do think that woodpeckers still matter and agree that the narrator was not in the right place to be writing a textbook lmao
Anyway yeah. STET was all emotional appeal, as I recall, and very little actual logical underpinning to drive the emotions home. Sort of like eating a cake that's all frosting and no cake... I love frosting very much but it's more delicious with some pastry under it.
Protagonist-centered morality is one of my most hated tropes. Glad to have furnished you with the phrase!