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You're Right, But You Shouldn't Say It
Mar. 13th, 2024 08:55 amI wrote a short review of Ngozi Ukazu's new graphic novel Bunt that I posted on Goodreads and then took down five minutes later. Here it is:
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But who is it going to benefit if I say any of this in public, you know? The potential benefits just don't outweigh the potential backlash.
ETA: If it seems as though I'm taking the negative portrayals of these characters personally, that's because I am. I feel like these characters are my students. As someone who teaches classes about Japan, I definitely have autism spectrum students who wear furry ears to class and transgender students who ask for make-up quizzes because their "family thing" is an anime convention and international students who don't speak 100% "proper" English. So what if they come off as weird. They're just kids. Let them be.
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But who is it going to benefit if I say any of this in public, you know? The potential benefits just don't outweigh the potential backlash.
ETA: If it seems as though I'm taking the negative portrayals of these characters personally, that's because I am. I feel like these characters are my students. As someone who teaches classes about Japan, I definitely have autism spectrum students who wear furry ears to class and transgender students who ask for make-up quizzes because their "family thing" is an anime convention and international students who don't speak 100% "proper" English. So what if they come off as weird. They're just kids. Let them be.
