Bedrockgames
Legend
When there's a real power imbalance, I think you need to do a whole lot more work to be sure you aren't abusing your social power.
Again, this sounds like a recipe for resentment, reducing empathy and exotizing the culture further by placing special taboos around it. I would agree with you if we were talking about actual society and people not abusing power in the streets or in the way they hire people. But when we are talking about art and media, and suddenly making different rules for different people depending on what their background is and their perceived level of power, I really think that is a recipe for worsening things. And it also sets the bar along class and educational lines. It is going to be much easier for someone with an advanced degree to play by these rules because a person with a university education or a masters, has been exposed to the arguments all of these ideas are built on. It is going to be harder for people who don't come from that background (and that is what I see all the time in real life around these discussions). There are a lot of fancy terms that get thrown around this kind of discussion, but when you step back and look at it from afar, it starts to look more like snobbery than real compassion to me.