I so totally get that. I try not to be paranoid - sometimes I'm not sure if my lit theory and my reading practices are at odds, because I was taught that the author was dead, but it's been a really long time since I've re-read anything by, oh frex Orson Scott Card, who I used to love.

But again, I also think we can reframe this as aesthetics instead of politics, if we want to - not that the two things are not completely interconnected, but you get at them through different paradigms. I talked to my mum yesterday about OSC's newest - she apparently hadn't heard any of his bigotry over the last couple of years, not really being a geek - and she asked me if it was just her, or was it a simply awful book?