NTAndrew
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 Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:16 pm Post subject: Re: Ending the debate once and for all. |
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| edgewaters wrote: | | Giftorcurse wrote: | | People need hope, right? Suppose I were to write a book about some as*hole adoptive couple beating/raping/manipulating/berating their kid. That would probably be my equivalent of a certain Rushdie book which I will not name on the grounds that there may be Muslims on this website. Adoption is a respected institution, and to blast it in fiction form nowadays would be both extremely dangerous and career suicide for a writer like me. |
If you wrote it well that could be how you make your career. Entertainment comes in many forms - one of the oldest is tragedy. Especially tragedy that people can relate to. Now if you slandered adoption in principle and wrote a screed against adoption itself, then yes, it would meet with nothing but disapproval ... but simply a story about a potentially true situation is not the same thing. |
As I recall, "Mommie Dearest" did pretty well. The book and the movie. |
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Giftorcurse
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For all the wrong reasons. 
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PastFixations
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What about a situation where the child's parents died and was adopted with caring adults?
Not all adoptions are a terrible process... Despicable Me comes to mind, okay it's Disney but the main character changes from not interested in them to risking himself for them.
Also... "Hehehe, Butt." (quote from the film.)
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kirayng
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| johnny77 wrote: | | I was adopted and happy to be. The life left behind was far worse than any mistakes made after. |
Ditto. (And I couldn't have put it any better.) |
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