>Let's go back to Carrol's earlier claim that we're just speaking out
>of
>personal prejudices. So what? That's part of the point: crappy style
>is
>an excellent trigger for the prejudices of your audience, in no small
>part because you are *not* paying attention to them in the first
>place.
>It's like asking for more consideration for yourself than you're
>willing
>to give them.
>
>-- Shane
There's a rhetorician on pulp culture, George Trail, who used to say that artists despise their audience. Having lived with and worked with artists, I have to agree.
The problem with not thinking _reflectively_ about our own prejudices is that the discourse _naturalizes_ those prejudices and reproduces systems of privilege that buttress class exploitation and oppression.
Kelley