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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 9784666" data-attributes="member: 6802378">I hope to explain it in a right way without innecesary troubles.When Jonathan Swift wrote "Gulliver's Travels" his intention was never to tell a kid-friendly tale. It was a satire about certain elements from his age but we know the version for children. Maybe the closest version would be that 1996 miniserie with Ted Danson. (Speculative) Fiction can be used like a softer way to talk about more serious threats, but when the entertaiment industry is used to promote certain points of views it may be very risky because the consumer could feel offended or start to distrust. Some important franchises have lost a lot of brand power because the reject of the audience. George Orwell's "Animal Farm" isn't a fabule for children, it isn't ideologically neutral, but the message is transmited in a right way.When the author uses the plot to teach something you didn't know then it is right, but it is only repeating again something you listened before, then it becomes propaganda and it may be really annoying when you offend a side but nothing is said about others.Let's try other example. The action girls can be wellcome by the fandom: Lara Croft, Xena the warrior princess, Trinity(Matrix), Wonder Woman, Katniss Everdeen (the Hunger Games), the bride(Kill Bill), Alice (Resident Evil movies), Hit-Girl(kick-ass), Buffy vampire slayer, Halliwell sisters(Charmed)... but other times certain heroines aren't so popular and loved. The audience notices when to give more light to the members of certain group then others are displaced or "hidden". If the reader believes you are saying to defend ones you have to hate other group then you may be doing it very wrong. And you have to offer enough characters with which the audience could identify with one of them.</blockquote>

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