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gbSooooo I saw a tweet along the lines of: Doctor Who featured Rosa Parks and The Partition of India for different point of history, so how about next season has the Great Emu War of 1932?
At first this annoyed me because gawd, I'm only just now no longer hearing jokes about dingoes eating babies, and now Australians are glomming onto another goddamn animal meme to define themselves, guh.
I put the computer down and realised about twenty minutes later what REALLY bugged me about this: A zany episode about the Emu War I can understand (honestly I'd probably appreciate one over new Who feeling an obligation to reference Serious Issues every episode, possibly as defensive justification for female lead*).
Thing is, so much ACTUALLY TERRIBLE shit involving racial dynamics happened (is happening) in Australia. Shit that is, largely, not discussed outside of increasingly frustrated #auspol tweets and newspaper editorials.
So, there's these people who see episode about major race-related historical act in US, then an episode about a major race-related historical act in India/Pakistan, and go 'Hey let's make an Australian episode about that major race-related historical event in Australian history, THE EMU WAR'?
Fuck off. Fuck off! Fuck that.
I am so fed up with fandom in the general and with other fannish Australians in the specific atm. I honestly shouldn't let this tweet get to me so badly, it's a silly off-the-cuff idea, but it's so endemic, I see so many tired jokes from other antipodeans about the Emu war and spiders and beer and using the c-word profusely and it's all so... twee, and self-effacing, and complacent with mainstream Australian narratives that *big shrug* detaining refugees off-shore and pointedly ignores the indigenous except to say 'well they do act anti-social sometimes' as if that excuses the fact more people feel more strongly about the Emu War as a historical event than they do about literal documented massacres. Fucking lamb ads! I'm so bored.
* Don't @ me about this, I'm not even watching Doctor Who, you will get no satisfaction
At first this annoyed me because gawd, I'm only just now no longer hearing jokes about dingoes eating babies, and now Australians are glomming onto another goddamn animal meme to define themselves, guh.
I put the computer down and realised about twenty minutes later what REALLY bugged me about this: A zany episode about the Emu War I can understand (honestly I'd probably appreciate one over new Who feeling an obligation to reference Serious Issues every episode, possibly as defensive justification for female lead*).
Thing is, so much ACTUALLY TERRIBLE shit involving racial dynamics happened (is happening) in Australia. Shit that is, largely, not discussed outside of increasingly frustrated #auspol tweets and newspaper editorials.
So, there's these people who see episode about major race-related historical act in US, then an episode about a major race-related historical act in India/Pakistan, and go 'Hey let's make an Australian episode about that major race-related historical event in Australian history, THE EMU WAR'?
Fuck off. Fuck off! Fuck that.
I am so fed up with fandom in the general and with other fannish Australians in the specific atm. I honestly shouldn't let this tweet get to me so badly, it's a silly off-the-cuff idea, but it's so endemic, I see so many tired jokes from other antipodeans about the Emu war and spiders and beer and using the c-word profusely and it's all so... twee, and self-effacing, and complacent with mainstream Australian narratives that *big shrug* detaining refugees off-shore and pointedly ignores the indigenous except to say 'well they do act anti-social sometimes' as if that excuses the fact more people feel more strongly about the Emu War as a historical event than they do about literal documented massacres. Fucking lamb ads! I'm so bored.
* Don't @ me about this, I'm not even watching Doctor Who, you will get no satisfaction
