(Psst, you only put "have a cut" behind a cut, and the rest outside. It's html-style -- put [cut] at the start of the section you want cut and [/cut] all the way at the end of it, only with < and > instead of [ and ]. This is so that you can have multiple cuts in a long post if you want -- it's not like tumblr where you can only do one readmore and everything after that is hidden.)
And yeah, I think this is a big factor. We've had to think about it in some ways, and in some ways the expectations of privilege HAVE changed in the details -- not that it's gone away, FOR SURE, but there are base assumptions of The 19th Century Rich Dude that are different than the base assumptions of The 21st Century Rich Dude, so that's a gap too.
It's the old problem of the everyman reader-surrogate protagonist. If you're not from that group, it can be really alienating, instead of a window in to set you at ease. But in this case there's that historical distance, too, so sometimes it's hard to tell exactly what we're supposed to see as Ah Yes, The Standard Expected Thing and what we're supposed to see as Marius Being The Pontmercy Friend and what we're supposed to see as Marius Screwing Up.
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Date: 2014-05-01 01:52 pm (UTC)And yeah, I think this is a big factor. We've had to think about it in some ways, and in some ways the expectations of privilege HAVE changed in the details -- not that it's gone away, FOR SURE, but there are base assumptions of The 19th Century Rich Dude that are different than the base assumptions of The 21st Century Rich Dude, so that's a gap too.
It's the old problem of the everyman reader-surrogate protagonist. If you're not from that group, it can be really alienating, instead of a window in to set you at ease. But in this case there's that historical distance, too, so sometimes it's hard to tell exactly what we're supposed to see as Ah Yes, The Standard Expected Thing and what we're supposed to see as Marius Being The Pontmercy Friend and what we're supposed to see as Marius Screwing Up.