- Joined
- Oct 8, 2019
So she's stepping on my turf since my chosen writing genre is historical fiction focusing on early 20th century America. And already her entire stupid project pisses me off.
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a huge turning point in worker rights and fire safety. She completely glosses over this and uses it as a convenient way to kill off a parent. Just wait a few years for the Spanish Flu Pandemic.
- They/them pronouns in 1911. Lmao
- We aren't told why the main character is special but everyone just accepts it and heaps praise upon her like it's The Room. It's weird.
- Agreeing with the above, go with a newsie instead of construction. Also know your history you dumb bitch.
- I just hate historical fiction that takes modern ideology and slaps it on top of eras that wouldn't stand for that. Lesbians and crossdressers got put into mental wards for being sexually degenerate. No way in hell early 20th century America is going to put up with 2010s nonbinary garbage. Probably get packed up and sent to one of the many island prisons and sanitoriums around New York about that time with the other mental cases and tuberculosis victims.
You could make an interesting project about a crossdresser in this time. It's not totally unheard of to have women dress as men to marry their female lovers but it was very frowned upon. This just reads as long boring masturbation over making the 1910s woke.
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a huge turning point in worker rights and fire safety. She completely glosses over this and uses it as a convenient way to kill off a parent. Just wait a few years for the Spanish Flu Pandemic.
- They/them pronouns in 1911. Lmao
- We aren't told why the main character is special but everyone just accepts it and heaps praise upon her like it's The Room. It's weird.
- Agreeing with the above, go with a newsie instead of construction. Also know your history you dumb bitch.
- I just hate historical fiction that takes modern ideology and slaps it on top of eras that wouldn't stand for that. Lesbians and crossdressers got put into mental wards for being sexually degenerate. No way in hell early 20th century America is going to put up with 2010s nonbinary garbage. Probably get packed up and sent to one of the many island prisons and sanitoriums around New York about that time with the other mental cases and tuberculosis victims.
You could make an interesting project about a crossdresser in this time. It's not totally unheard of to have women dress as men to marry their female lovers but it was very frowned upon. This just reads as long boring masturbation over making the 1910s woke.