{"id":1667,"date":"2025-11-22T18:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T23:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2025-11-22T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T23:27:19","slug":"a-crime-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2025\/11\/22\/a-crime-against-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crime Against Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

How strange that some texts without an alias would never be considered important texts or get the recognition or fame they would have today. In\u00a0The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor, <\/em>Mei is speaking with Bee about there future in which Bee responds with, \u201cWell, you\u2019ll move in with me and you\u2019ll write stories, and poems under a man\u2019s name and sell them to the paper. I\u2019ll illustrate them for you.\u201d The story subtly \u00a0hint to the prejudices surrounding the main Characters. This book takes place in the 1840\u2019s roughly and during that time the literary world was dominated by men. Women writers were often dismissed or judged unfairly. Using male pseudonyms helped their work be taken seriously. Mei would do just as the Bront\u00eb sisters and Mary Ann Evans did by using a male name to portray credibility.<\/p>\n

The power and influence of just changing one\u2019s name directly illustrates the power of conformity. I\u2019m not only taking about changing names but cloths, appearance, and speech. This is dangerous because it allows one group to dominate and build expectations that only one type of person is credible. It is mind boggling that one must dress a certain way to be taken seriously and it will be others downfall for not accepting those who are not an identical copy of themselves. There is nothing new to learn if everyone is the same, there is nothing new to think about if everyone is thinking the same things. Life becomes grey and mundane. It is a crime against humanity, a crime against the beauty and art that is life to conform. It steals the beauty from life and the joy of something new and different to see, learn, understand everyday. Conformity steals color from the world and makes life practically not worth living. The human race is meant to learn and evolve and explore and depriving that is a crime.<\/p>\n

Mei should put her shit on paper so the people that will grow and add color to this world will find it. So people like her can gain more credibility, so women do not have to hide behind a mans name, so people that love like her can be taken seriously. Mei should share her color and so should everyone else so that conformity can no longer be acceptable or a norm. It might not seem like there is a lot of conformity today but there is, My Friend Zhong Haoan goes by Austin because he didn\u2019t want to bother trying to teach his friends to say his name in fear of being bullied. He is our valedictorian and my best friend and adds color to the world even if he doesn\u2019t realize it, I wish he could of added more color to the kids lives that I grew up with\u2026 I think they could of really used it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How strange that some texts without an alias would never be considered important texts or get the recognition or fame they would have today. In\u00a0The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor, Mei is speaking with Bee about there future in which Bee responds with, \u201cWell, you\u2019ll move in with me and you\u2019ll write … Continue reading A Crime Against Humanity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}