I'm gonna come at this from a writer's POV. I think there's a general sense when you're writing adventure stories for kids that you generally don't dwell on things like racism/sexism because we try to present the world how we think it *should* be. If we have stories for kids where children of all races are as capable as one another and get along, and where girls are just as good as boys, it sort of works the idea into the heads of our young readers that racism/sexism is a dated and stupid concept. It's not *realistic*, no, but generally when you're writing genre books you focus more on the plot than on if it's realistic that the cast of characters looks like a Benneton ad.
Everworld and Remnants took a darker, more realistic view and had racism and sexism as an inherent part of their plots. I wonder if that's partially why they didn't do nearly as well as Animorphs -- do kid genre readers prefer the fantasy world where everyone gets along despite their differences? Where they are judged as people rather than by superficialities?
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Date: 2010-10-02 10:19 pm (UTC)Everworld and Remnants took a darker, more realistic view and had racism and sexism as an inherent part of their plots. I wonder if that's partially why they didn't do nearly as well as Animorphs -- do kid genre readers prefer the fantasy world where everyone gets along despite their differences? Where they are judged as people rather than by superficialities?