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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 05:21 am (UTC)
Well, being in that even smaller handful that you mentioned, I quite enjoy reading your posts about race. I find them enlightening, and I think it's cool how you're trying to figure things out and kind of find your place in the whole thing. You've said before that you haven't experienced much in the way of discrimination or lack of privilege, but then it comes out in little ways, like a coworker making a the horrible joke from the assumption that you and another guy must be dating/married just because you're both asian.

It's strange for me. I'm subconsciously aware of the "other" perspective I bring to my writing. I think these posts you make about race enrich your writing for me. I remember when I first started reading your fic, I liked the way you portrayed Teyla and John. You write Teyla as a person rather than just an alien.

I became more aware of the subtle differences in how writer's perceive race when I started betaing. Then suddenly, I have my potentially-offensive-use-of-terminology glasses on and I see things (and feel a certain level of obligation) to point it out to the writer where someone else might not have noticed it. Still, I feel a strong sense of naivety at time when confronted with such things, because I'm not one that's quickly offended. I just like to make someone aware of how certain things can be perceived if they're written just so.

But hey, I live in a place where many people think it's perfectly acceptable to sport Confederate flags on t-shirts (http://dixieoutfitters.com/dixie_store), cuz, ya know, it's about "heritage, not hate."

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