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Thread #140865   Message #3243451
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
23-Oct-11 - 07:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Racial stereotypes in retellings?
Subject: RE: BS: Racial stereotypes in retellings?
Why that was, I don't know. Anyone have an idea why?

Many people seem to have an appetite for one-to-one identifications like that. It is illustrated in many Mudcat posts where there's an assumption that an episode in a song for example, has a single direct reference- "that's what it's about".

That is just restating the question, it doesn't answer it. It's just how many people react to stories and suchlike. Ambiguity is seen as something to be correcte4de rather than appreciated.

(I wasn't criticising your orig9onal post MtheGM, just using it as a useful way to identify what I was referring to, and expanding on the information we'd got in the light of what I'd just read.