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6 June 2020 23:04![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonNot a huge fan of the authors of the comic The Wicked + The Divine choosing to tell the story about a white girl who involuntarily reincarnates as a Japanese goddess, and *then* takes the character to task for having done so, because isn't that appropriative?
While I sort of get the value of being self-aware about the racial dynamics of one's work, they could just have chosen another goddess (or god: the pantheon reincarnate in ways regardless of gender). There's something quite uncomfortable, for me at least, about putting a character in this position where the character becomes a bad guy for a design choice the authors clearly made. You know?
While I sort of get the value of being self-aware about the racial dynamics of one's work, they could just have chosen another goddess (or god: the pantheon reincarnate in ways regardless of gender). There's something quite uncomfortable, for me at least, about putting a character in this position where the character becomes a bad guy for a design choice the authors clearly made. You know?
