[27 Sep 2008|10:31pm] I was just thinking about an arguement I had with someone on the internets about using the word "miscenogation" as a prompt for fanfiction. It's like using the word "caste". The horror that both words conjure is immense. But the idea - why it happened, the philosophy of it, the sociology of it, how it's applied in so many different ways - that's a facinating idea. And by banning its use for ficcers of any time I think is a restriction of free thought. As well as the supression of a historical but also flawed thought that could arise in situations nowadays. It's not like racism is dead. It's not like people are still not thought of as animals in some parts of the world. I don't think it's logical to supress the idea of exploring the term metaphorically, see how many many people use understand the term, how they can show the thinking and the flaws in it. What's the point of supressing that? No point, that's what. 3 comments|Sing it

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