An Addendum to “The West’s Third World Others (or, Hey, Thailand Has Prostitutions, What’s the Big Deal?)
The following video might be of interest to anyone who read my previous post. It’s also a video I’m teaching my students this semester in my “Writing About Postcolonialism and Genre Fiction” class. Anywho!
The West’s Third World Others (or, Hey, Thailand Has Prostitutes, What’s the Big Deal?)
The latest shitstorm in the SF/F community comes in response to acrackedmoon’s criticism of Pat’s (of Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist) controversial perspectives on Thailand and travel (acrackedmoon offers a counter here). The short version: Pat reinforces some stereotypes about Thailand and non-Western culture, some of them through sexist and/or racist lenses, gets called out on it […]