senpai – Page 2 – A Madness Between Two

In re “supporting my lifestyle”…. Do y’all feel that you’re subsidizing the lifestyle of the supermarket checker who bags your groceries? Are you helping to put the late Steve Jobs’s kids through college? ‘Cuz you are–every bit as much as you support me. I write books, and if you want to buy them, I’m really pleased. But all I owe you is the best book I can write. That much, I promise you.

Diana Gabaldon

I want to thank her for telling it like it is.

That quote should be inprinted in every book everywhere in the world to make it clear once for all that readers have no right to claim, as passionate as they can feel about the books written by their favorite author

The author owes you nothing

He isn’t here to write for you your fanfiction

He doesn’t write to support your cause: feminism, fight against racial discrimination, or against homophobia etc as legit as those causes are.

And he has no obligation to make it a part of his/her story if he/she doesn’t feel that it’s required by the plot or the characters.

So a man writer like Georges R Martin can write about a sexist world where all the women are raped, that doesn’t make him a man who hates women.

He can also perfectly feel that since his story is told through characters point of views and since none of his main characters is a gay men, there’s no reasons to force a gay romance or a gay sex scene in the plot.

A man writer like Bryan Fuller can kill an asian female detective who is investigating the house of a very dangerous serial killer by getting her caught up and overpowered by the said serial killer, that doesn’t mean he thinks lesser of korean people or asian people in general.

I’m not angry because people who belongs to minorities are asking to be more visible or better represented in fiction. I’m not convinced that it would necessarily change their real life, that homophobes would treat gay people and lesbian better because of it but they are entitled to think otherwise. Same for racists. (IMO, the only effective influence that society can have on intolerant attitudes is through education and it must start earlier in schools).

I’m angry because those pretended fans are putting an incredible and insufferable amount of pressure on these authors to get them to censor their creativity in order to please their audience.

It’s just authoritarian and plainly wrong.

(via goontheview)