Words and context

I'm sure most, if not all, of you have seen that lovely fandom-wank from some Harry Potter porn community, so I'm not doing links, but I just wanted to say something, and I was tired of hijacking other people's threads.

Why, oh why don't people know how to comprehend the things they read? No one takes the time to understand what is written. It's like they just take certain key words and run with them. Makes me livid.

The only thing the poor soul who started this wanted to do was to point out that the word miscegenation was being used incorrectly. She wasn't arguing the 'kink'* she was simply pointing out the word was being misunderstood, and not really being used in the context it was intended.

And instead of complying, because it really was a simple request, it turns into this whole 'hey, we're not racist, how dare you say we are' because they utterly fail at understanding context and comprehending what the subject of post was.

It's like the song Short People that came out in the 70's. I've posted about that before - people were so up in arms about the lyrics 'Short people got no reason to live' that they entirely missed the point of the song, which was prejudice is stupid. He says 'all men are brothers' or similar in the song. How can you not get that?

It just amazes me that people are so quick to take offense at something that, if they just took a moment to actually read and comprhend, there would be no issue.




*And anyway, I don't understand how interracial is a kink. In HP, I gather it means having sex with house elves or centaurs, but, at least with the centaurs, wouldn't that be more like beastiality, speaking in a totally pornographic context? Because, yeah, centaurs have the human front, but I'm guessing the vital organ is attached to the horse part. If it isn't then centaurs got completely ripped off.

Words and context

I'm sure most, if not all, of you have seen that lovely fandom-wank from some Harry Potter porn community, so I'm not doing links, but I just wanted to say something, and I was tired of hijacking other people's threads.

Why, oh why don't people know how to comprehend the things they read? No one takes the time to understand what is written. It's like they just take certain key words and run with them. Makes me livid.

The only thing the poor soul who started this wanted to do was to point out that the word miscegenation was being used incorrectly. She wasn't arguing the 'kink'* she was simply pointing out the word was being misunderstood, and not really being used in the context it was intended.

And instead of complying, because it really was a simple request, it turns into this whole 'hey, we're not racist, how dare you say we are' because they utterly fail at understanding context and comprehending what the subject of post was.

It's like the song Short People that came out in the 70's. I've posted about that before - people were so up in arms about the lyrics 'Short people got no reason to live' that they entirely missed the point of the song, which was prejudice is stupid. He says 'all men are brothers' or similar in the song. How can you not get that?

It just amazes me that people are so quick to take offense at something that, if they just took a moment to actually read and comprhend, there would be no issue.




*And anyway, I don't understand how interracial is a kink. In HP, I gather it means having sex with house elves or centaurs, but, at least with the centaurs, wouldn't that be more like beastiality, speaking in a totally pornographic context? Because, yeah, centaurs have the human front, but I'm guessing the vital organ is attached to the horse part. If it isn't then centaurs got completely ripped off.