Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing”
by ummonk on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:16PM
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No the point is that Americans will think you're moralizing even when you don't intend to moralize. It's like portraying a character kicking a puppy, when the author comes from a culture where kicking puppies is just normal everyday behavior.
Re:“How Americans edit sex out of my writing”
by rrwo on Thursday October 06, 2022 @06:11PM
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Americans can handle complicated stories with ambiguity and no clear good v evil.
But there are loud camps of culture warriors who raise a fuss if it's not "safe for kids" and a whole industry of grifters who amplify this, because getting people angry improves their TV ratings and the political campaign funds.
There are a lot of managers in the arts and culture industry (editors, producers, museum directors etc) who are rarely rewarded but often punished for resisting the culture warriors.
The need to do this in American movies, TV and books ruins a story.
There is a reason that Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer was published in France.