LOL. Well, you are a man, and you did send me feedback for that fic, and wonderful fb it was :-D This guy actually told me he was old and identified as such. His age should not have mattered to me, but, well, I was being stupid.
Thank you for the link! Why aren't there any Buffy/Spike or Willow/Oz fics? ;_;
You're right, there are definitely possessive Danes who feel they should have a say in if and how other people enjoy art made by Danes. I have a lot of sympathy and understanding for people being proud of their culture, and liking it when others appreciate a product of their culture.
What I have a problem with is when people become so proprietary and skeptical that they feel they have the right or responsibility to police who gets to enjoy a freely available commercial product, and in what manner. I feel I should make it clear that I'm not talking about resisting cultural appropriation, which I believe in; I'm talking about xenophobic policing of who gets to enjoy artistic/commercial expressions intended by their creators to be enjoyed by anyone who wants to.
And as you say, a lot of Danes like to be jerks like that :-( Take for example Riget. I'd be the first to say "UR doing it rong" to the people who produced the Kingdom Hospital remake, because they cut everything that made the original funny and clever, and threw in a lot of flash and surrealism that detracted more than it added.
But a lot of people have told me that it's because the people who made Kingdom Hospital are Americans, and the viewers are Americans, Americans are fat and stupid and have bad taste and don't know what satire or sarcasm or irony is and eat cheese burgers every day, and by definition any time an American enjoys a Danish TV show or movie they will be doing it wrong.
Luckily those hateful, prejudiced jerks mostly spew their opinions in Danish, and the many fans of Riget who don't speak Danish don't have to put up with them (much) in the fan forums they frequent.
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This guy actually told me he was old and identified as such. His age should not have mattered to me, but, well, I was being stupid.
Thank you for the link! Why aren't there any Buffy/Spike or Willow/Oz fics? ;_;
You're right, there are definitely possessive Danes who feel they should have a say in if and how other people enjoy art made by Danes. I have a lot of sympathy and understanding for people being proud of their culture, and liking it when others appreciate a product of their culture.
What I have a problem with is when people become so proprietary and skeptical that they feel they have the right or responsibility to police who gets to enjoy a freely available commercial product, and in what manner. I feel I should make it clear that I'm not talking about resisting cultural appropriation, which I believe in; I'm talking about xenophobic policing of who gets to enjoy artistic/commercial expressions intended by their creators to be enjoyed by anyone who wants to.
And as you say, a lot of Danes like to be jerks like that :-(
Take for example Riget. I'd be the first to say "UR doing it rong" to the people who produced the Kingdom Hospital remake, because they cut everything that made the original funny and clever, and threw in a lot of flash and surrealism that detracted more than it added.
But a lot of people have told me that it's because the people who made Kingdom Hospital are Americans, and the viewers are Americans, Americans are fat and stupid and have bad taste and don't know what satire or sarcasm or irony is and eat cheese burgers every day, and by definition any time an American enjoys a Danish TV show or movie they will be doing it wrong.
Luckily those hateful, prejudiced jerks mostly spew their opinions in Danish, and the many fans of Riget who don't speak Danish don't have to put up with them (much) in the fan forums they frequent.