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Elusis ([identity profile] elusis.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rm 2010-09-20 04:50 pm (UTC)

The writer's commentary on ep. 12 of "Six Feet Under" is all this self-conscious but very revealing commentary from Jill Soloway about how she's constantly screwing things up in dealing with the Latin@ characters on the show - putting Mexican stuff in the Puerto Rican characters' mouths, inserting bits of Spanish that just exasperate the actors, etc. On the one hand, I was incredibly aggravated with her (not least for how she insults the viewer at least three times for "having no life" if they're watching the commentary, but mostly for her "well I just can't help screwing it up because I'm so white" attitude). But on the other hand, it was pretty refreshing to hear an author talk frankly about making cultural mistakes, making the effort to do cultural research to get things right and still getting caught out, and acknowledging that the problem is her lack of knowledge, not POC's "sensitivities" or some other de-rail.

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