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No, it isn't. That's only what people say if they insist on injecting politics into everything, even if it had gotten along fine without it.

StefanBatory 2y ago
You read a book YA about young heroine rebelling. Why isn't she instead studying for her exams or volunteering for charity work? You read a book about adventurers. Why the act of doing so is praised, and not the act of hard work in fields or mills?
- Jensson 2y ago
  The act of asking those questions is politics, you don't have to ask those questions. The real answer to those questions is that it makes the story more interesting. You are searching for a political reason where there is none. The question "what makes a story interesting" is philosophy and writing and not politics.
- michaelt 2y ago
  Do you read boring books because they're all about working in fields and mills? Do you enjoy adventure books, but avoid reading them because the content isn't weighty enough? Personally I powered through some boring-but-virtuous books in my youth, but now I'm a middle-aged adult with less free time, I've realised reading is supposed to be fun. So if a book review tells me a book is virtuous without telling me if it's fun, that book review isn't much use to me.
- Akronymus 2y ago
  > You read a book YA about young heroine rebelling. > Why isn't she instead studying for her exams or volunteering for charity work? Because that isn't the story the author came up with?
  - dsr_ 2y ago
    ... and that is because... Everything involving a substantial agreement or disagreement between persons is politics, that's what it means. Claiming that something 'should not be political' is almost always an assertion that your position is unassailably correct.
    - AlbertCory 2y ago
      > almost always an assertion that your position is unassailably correct. No, it it's an assertion that there's a whole world beyond your conception of "politics" and your position is impoverishing of the human experience.
- AlbertCory 2y ago
  umm... There you go injecting politics where it doesn't belong. Although the first sentence "YA about young heroine rebelling" is itself about politics really, so my comment doesn't apply. Authors write what they feel like writing and what readers feel like reading, not what some liberal arts professor wants to include in their "the politics of YA books" course. Let me assure you that neither the writer nor the reader are interested in your concerns.

StefanBatory 2y ago

You read a book YA about young heroine rebelling. Why isn't she instead studying for her exams or volunteering for charity work? You read a book about adventurers. Why the act of doing so is praised, and not the act of hard work in fields or mills?

Jensson 2y ago
The act of asking those questions is politics, you don't have to ask those questions. The real answer to those questions is that it makes the story more interesting. You are searching for a political reason where there is none. The question "what makes a story interesting" is philosophy and writing and not politics.
michaelt 2y ago
Do you read boring books because they're all about working in fields and mills? Do you enjoy adventure books, but avoid reading them because the content isn't weighty enough? Personally I powered through some boring-but-virtuous books in my youth, but now I'm a middle-aged adult with less free time, I've realised reading is supposed to be fun. So if a book review tells me a book is virtuous without telling me if it's fun, that book review isn't much use to me.
Akronymus 2y ago
> You read a book YA about young heroine rebelling. > Why isn't she instead studying for her exams or volunteering for charity work? Because that isn't the story the author came up with?
- dsr_ 2y ago
  ... and that is because... Everything involving a substantial agreement or disagreement between persons is politics, that's what it means. Claiming that something 'should not be political' is almost always an assertion that your position is unassailably correct.
  - AlbertCory 2y ago
    > almost always an assertion that your position is unassailably correct. No, it it's an assertion that there's a whole world beyond your conception of "politics" and your position is impoverishing of the human experience.
AlbertCory 2y ago
umm... There you go injecting politics where it doesn't belong. Although the first sentence "YA about young heroine rebelling" is itself about politics really, so my comment doesn't apply. Authors write what they feel like writing and what readers feel like reading, not what some liberal arts professor wants to include in their "the politics of YA books" course. Let me assure you that neither the writer nor the reader are interested in your concerns.