ticky box anti-ism
Jul. 1st, 2007 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethSometimes I feel like I have to turn stories upside down before they're any fun anymore.
I has a new plan.
My clever new laptop has a program I use to write my essays. I can make a tree with things like "Contexts" and "Social" and "Ethnic-gender-sexuality-disability-religion" on different levels. And when I analyse a text I make a new copy of the tree, put the poem or the name of a novel or whatever in the start bubble, and make sure every branch of the tree has some comments in it.
I think maybe each of those keywords could have a ticky box with "Evil-insane-dead-depowered-enslaved" next to it just to make it real quick. Oh, and another box for "present-marginalised-ignored", maybe with room for numbers.
This tree could be a useful tool for TPTB to use to read over any and all TW or DW scripts, or genre stuff in general. Maybe even television, who knows!
Then you remember to look at the story every which way up... well, every way I've got on my tree so far anyways... and if you find something that makes you go "Er, oops?" It hasn't got all the way to being made already.
I think maybe any one tree might not look too bad, but if you've got the same sort of thing on the same sort of branches on too many times then it's kind of a problem.
It's like why I've quit reading comics. Too many times you know what is going to happen to who because of what category label they've got. First it gets boring, then it gets hurtful.
I has a new plan.
My clever new laptop has a program I use to write my essays. I can make a tree with things like "Contexts" and "Social" and "Ethnic-gender-sexuality-disability-religion" on different levels. And when I analyse a text I make a new copy of the tree, put the poem or the name of a novel or whatever in the start bubble, and make sure every branch of the tree has some comments in it.
I think maybe each of those keywords could have a ticky box with "Evil-insane-dead-depowered-enslaved" next to it just to make it real quick. Oh, and another box for "present-marginalised-ignored", maybe with room for numbers.
This tree could be a useful tool for TPTB to use to read over any and all TW or DW scripts, or genre stuff in general. Maybe even television, who knows!
Then you remember to look at the story every which way up... well, every way I've got on my tree so far anyways... and if you find something that makes you go "Er, oops?" It hasn't got all the way to being made already.
I think maybe any one tree might not look too bad, but if you've got the same sort of thing on the same sort of branches on too many times then it's kind of a problem.
It's like why I've quit reading comics. Too many times you know what is going to happen to who because of what category label they've got. First it gets boring, then it gets hurtful.