#and STILL the boss insists on trying to storyboard our books

[ifeelbetterer]

You know how something Really Racist gets put into a creative work and it’s super clear that it’s sheer ignorance on their part and you think to yourself, “hang on, did NO ONE mention that this is Super Racist??? Not a SINGLE person in the whole company???”

yeah, well I have spent the last SIX MONTHS repeatedly having the argument that something in our plan for our next book at work is Super Racist in an Orientalist flavor—which, like, I spent EIGHT YEARS on a dissertation SPECIFICALLY about how white people do things that are Super Racist in a specifically Orientalist flavor in their creative works without specifically meaning to and just basically outlining how Not To Do That and then, yes, I was given a phd in the subject because THAT’S WHAT I KNOW THE MOST ABOUT IN THE WHOLE WORLD. I’m like the movie Lucy where you don’t use 90% of your brain except it’s because 90% of my brain is permanently devoted to obscure facts about how white people Do That in fiction and ways they could just Not Do That. 

My boss:

NO IT’S NOT. IT’S MY FUCKING E X P E R T OPINION AND IT SHOULD MATTER MORE