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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stefano Rinaldelli" data-source="post: 8113742" data-attributes="member: 6791994">Thank you very much for these 3 examples you cite. To be honest, the problem here is that it's impossible to write about a black woman with leash, but I wonder if the woman was white, maybe some feminist mob can also came out. I mean: this seems to me as the classic incidental VS causal kind of misinterpretation, but I don't want to argue to the single examples you've done.Only thing that I'm sure, really sure, is that if I, italian caucasic reader, red a story about a black women in leash, my focus is to women in leash, black as a totally unrelated attribute from the leash. Easily this is beacause I'm white, but before let fall the axe of racism accusation to the writer, my personal intelligence impose me to be absolutely sure that there is a causal/intentional relationship between leash and black, and not only an assonance with slavery.[For the relationship between interpretation and misinterpretation if you want to go deepen in this enormous problem, my advice is to read Interpretation and Overinterpretation and The Limits of Interpretation both by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco" target="_blank">Umberto Eco</a>. easy to read despite the mess of the subject]It's worth to remember that I've already clearly sad that if an author wants to assume a SR it's good to him to do it and nobody should blame him for that, nor I intend in any way to assume that SR are unuseful professionist. So what I'm interested in is 1. your opinion about a sort of third party control aimed to prevent misinterpretability (don't know if is this the correct word, I mean the fact that a writing COULD be somehow interpreted far from the intentions of the author). 2. if is logical for you, aside obvious economic implication related to avoid mobs, to change a writing to avoid misinterpretation.3. don't you think that this kind of filter, if pushed beyond a per se difficult to intercept limit, could result in harm to freedom of expression?4. don't you think that while avoid blatant offences to some ethnic or gender or anything group is part of your being not an a***ole, chase the misinterpretation to kill it before it shows up is intrinsecally flawed way of thinking?5. in other words, don't you think that acting this way it is like to abdicate, to surrender to human stupidity?</blockquote>

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