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Date: 2025-04-19 05:20 am (UTC)Though I haven't read much baihe, I've osmosed that some stories assume different societal norms (e.g. gender equality in a historical setting), so that's another approach—ignored by the article—where the writer changes the norms of the setting upfront. But even in non-historical settings, I don't know if the article writer could easily map the dynamics they discuss onto baihe stories. (I mention historical vs. non-historical only b/c my current cmedia consumption falls almost entirely under the former category.)
Specific disagreement—the author talks about how Lu Xuanyu in 3K Workers is the physical incarnation of a self-created DnD character and is thus a posthumanist metaphor through which readers can project themselves. I felt a very vehement NO! in my soul when I read that. XD While I love that LXY is very "normal" (in her initial attitude) compared to the typical historical transmigration story protagonist imo, I never once felt that she's the kind of character who can serve as a pseudo-self-insert. Just, no?!?!?