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therightfangirlHope this article hasn't been linked here before, but in case it hasn't:
Jimmy Carter: Compassion For Mordor.
Incidentally, I just remembered something funny. A few years ago, one night on impulse I took a peek at the LJ of a former fannish friend who turned on me when she found out I was a Republican. She had a recent post up ranting about how she'd taken a long time to discover the wonder of Spike/Xander fic (a pairing which makes no sense to me, but hey, this is fandom) because she was scared away from that fandom by the "Evil Blonde Thing", namely Buffy. Apparently someone had recently asked her why she hated Buffy, so she was explaining how insensitive Buffy was for enforcing her personal morality on poor lil' Spikiekins and even using physical force to do it.
That the poor and victimized Spike was using physical force to drink people's blood and kill them didn't seem to blip on her radar. Also that Buffy didn't just pick up a stake and decide to persecute vampires for their lifestyle choices, but was part of an ancient organization dedicated to fighting demons, so it wasn't exactly her "personal morality". But of course, plenty of slash fen are willing to forgive anything a character does if he's played by a hot actor, and hate any female character on principle.
About a year after reading this LJ rant, I came across a conservative editorial which tried to point up the absurdity of leftist moral relativism by comparing it to charges that Buffy was engaging in cultural imperialism, forcing her morality of not killing people onto vampires who only want to peacefully engage in their own alternate and equally valid morality of killing people.
That's the problem with parodying the left: they make your parodies come true. Or in this case, beat you to the punch.
Jimmy Carter: Compassion For Mordor.
Incidentally, I just remembered something funny. A few years ago, one night on impulse I took a peek at the LJ of a former fannish friend who turned on me when she found out I was a Republican. She had a recent post up ranting about how she'd taken a long time to discover the wonder of Spike/Xander fic (a pairing which makes no sense to me, but hey, this is fandom) because she was scared away from that fandom by the "Evil Blonde Thing", namely Buffy. Apparently someone had recently asked her why she hated Buffy, so she was explaining how insensitive Buffy was for enforcing her personal morality on poor lil' Spikiekins and even using physical force to do it.
That the poor and victimized Spike was using physical force to drink people's blood and kill them didn't seem to blip on her radar. Also that Buffy didn't just pick up a stake and decide to persecute vampires for their lifestyle choices, but was part of an ancient organization dedicated to fighting demons, so it wasn't exactly her "personal morality". But of course, plenty of slash fen are willing to forgive anything a character does if he's played by a hot actor, and hate any female character on principle.
About a year after reading this LJ rant, I came across a conservative editorial which tried to point up the absurdity of leftist moral relativism by comparing it to charges that Buffy was engaging in cultural imperialism, forcing her morality of not killing people onto vampires who only want to peacefully engage in their own alternate and equally valid morality of killing people.
That's the problem with parodying the left: they make your parodies come true. Or in this case, beat you to the punch.
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