thingswithwings: a few words on warnings - 0 views
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So his intention was to play this scene of assault, with no warning, in the public space of a classroom. Now, this is a class that also teaches Irreversible and Demonlover and other films that involve pretty graphic scenes of rape and assault, but I think there's a difference between being told to watch Irreversible on your own at home, and coming into class, sitting around with a bunch of half-strangers, and being surprised by an out-of-context rape scene.
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One thing that I really like about fandom is that we're different from the publishing world, from the academic world, from the world of boyfans even, in that we try really hard to take into consideration the needs and squicks and concerns of the reader.
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Professional publishing is about getting people to buy books, and professional publishing is about the rights of the author - so, in the first place, we're often lied to about what a novel will contain, and even when we're not, we're not warned, because the rights of the author to surprise the reader - the rights of his inviolable artistic vision - are more important than the rights of the reader to tailor her reading to her own desires.
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