I can understand the impulse, but I also get antsy about the way issues like this tend to get tackled, especially in fanfic or in historical fiction written from that perspective.
I've found it very offensive in the past where writers have airbrushed out the very real difficulties working class people have suffered from, which have prevented their reaching their potential, because I come from a working class background and have seen at first hand the enormous frustration and suffering caused by this cutting off of opportunies and how insidious and soul-destroying it is on so many levels, including internally and including its manifesting as resentment against the limited number of people who have achieved a degree of social mobility, and how it ends in the constant threat of imposter syndrome and families being torn apart.
A superimposed conflict free happy ending is basically a big kick in the teeth to anyone who's had experience of the alternative, because it's basically saying to everyone who hasn't achieved that sort of ending that the fault is in them, not in the system. A bit as if you went and read Secret Garden to a bunch of kids in wheelchairs and told them, "Now, Colin did it, so the only reason you lot aren't walking is because you aren't trying hard enough."
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Date: 2016-06-04 06:28 pm (UTC)I've found it very offensive in the past where writers have airbrushed out the very real difficulties working class people have suffered from, which have prevented their reaching their potential, because I come from a working class background and have seen at first hand the enormous frustration and suffering caused by this cutting off of opportunies and how insidious and soul-destroying it is on so many levels, including internally and including its manifesting as resentment against the limited number of people who have achieved a degree of social mobility, and how it ends in the constant threat of imposter syndrome and families being torn apart.
A superimposed conflict free happy ending is basically a big kick in the teeth to anyone who's had experience of the alternative, because it's basically saying to everyone who hasn't achieved that sort of ending that the fault is in them, not in the system. A bit as if you went and read Secret Garden to a bunch of kids in wheelchairs and told them, "Now, Colin did it, so the only reason you lot aren't walking is because you aren't trying hard enough."