Let me try a different example: I once wrote a book in which one of the characters bought into all of the racist stereotypes he'd been subjected to, but took them as positive things instead of negative things. I thought it would be obvious that he had an inaccurate and unhealthy view of race. The only review I got interpreted the book as racist. In retrospect, that was an understandable and predictable way for the book to be interpreted, because I didn't do anything to show that he was wrong about the stuff he said.
I'm not saying that I'm racist, and I'm not saying that the author of M. Butterfly is misandrist. I'm saying that we both failed, and in that sense, our work was badly written.
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Let me try a different example: I once wrote a book in which one of the characters bought into all of the racist stereotypes he'd been subjected to, but took them as positive things instead of negative things. I thought it would be obvious that he had an inaccurate and unhealthy view of race. The only review I got interpreted the book as racist. In retrospect, that was an understandable and predictable way for the book to be interpreted, because I didn't do anything to show that he was wrong about the stuff he said.
I'm not saying that I'm racist, and I'm not saying that the author of M. Butterfly is misandrist. I'm saying that we both failed, and in that sense, our work was badly written.