![]() Too bad for you, as I think Aminder Dhaliwal has done pretty well for herself. “Well that doesn’t really make any sense,” you would hopefully say, deciding not to be the author of this book. ![]() Ok, you know how the X-Men fails as a metaphor for the civil rights movement because the mutants have incredible powers which make them actively dangerous to the majority of society? Or how the children’s movie Zootopia was criticized in some quarters for how, in porting human concerns over to the animal world, concepts of “predator”, which in human society are social constructs, become enshrined in biological predetermination? WHAT IF we had a metaphor for far more quotidian struggles - not for basic civil rights, but for representation in media and not being fetishized within one’s dating pool - and this used, as its metaphor, actual mythical creatures? ![]()
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