Thank you for this post! I'm really grateful to see this stuff being brought up -- you've hit on a lot of things that make me uncomfortable about this challenge. Every time I see somebody's bingo card with one of my own problems on it, I get a little queasy and hope they won't write that one.
I hadn't really thought about how the bingo format would put these incredibly disparate things on the same footing, but that's a really good point. It does tend to suggest a mindset where "brain damage" is just as much of an unreal-to-the-writer experience as "zombie apocalypse," laid out like that.
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Date: 2010-06-12 01:42 pm (UTC)I hadn't really thought about how the bingo format would put these incredibly disparate things on the same footing, but that's a really good point. It does tend to suggest a mindset where "brain damage" is just as much of an unreal-to-the-writer experience as "zombie apocalypse," laid out like that.