![]() Books, movies, TV series: All fiction is both the result of the common views and opinions of the society it is created in, and – inevitably – a reinforcement of these views and opinions. ![]() ![]() It was just fiction! I should be more open-minded it wasn’t meant to be taken so seriously, OMG it was all in good fun, and everybody (except me, apparently) understood that the only thing that actually mattered with fiction was how good (well-written, well-acted, …) it was.įiction does not exist in a vacuum. I’d object to the way the matter in question was portrayed, and would be told that it was just a book / movie / TV series, and I was making a fuss over nothing. The topics in question varied, as did the fictional works, but the course these discussions took was always the same. ![]() In recent months, I’ve had several discussions in which I criticized the way a sensitive topic was treated in a fictional work. ![]()
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