Basically it's another privilege thing. While the
concept isn't invalid, what pulls you out of it is that the characters in question invariably start mouthing "gender studies" terminology. Did every robot in town go to college and get a degree in Gender Studies? Or only the ones that just happen to have a female chassis?
"You've invalidated my lived experience" just
isn't how people talk. And that's what makes the difference between subtle social commentary and a heavy-handed author's tract.
Also, btw, I've discovered that "
lived experience" has a weird, but predictably eye-rolling definition. non-white people, women, LGBT and disabled people have "lived experience":
the first google result on difference between “experience” and “lived experience” comes from Geek Feminism Wiki: “The term lived experience is used to describe the first-hand accounts and impressions of living as a member of a minority or oppressed group.”
Luckily, I
have "lived experience" because I'm Asian but grew up in a white country town and got picked on / beaten up as a result. So, suck that one, white fuckers who don't have lived experience. Everything that's ever happened to me counts as lived experience: nothing that's ever happened to you counts.
Even if it was the same things - e.g. getting picked on at school for being a
geek wouldn't count - "geek" isn't an officially approved minority / oppressed group. you could get your head kicked in literally every day by jocks, and you still don't have lived experience according to the definition. But I do, because I'm not white.
So ... Bubbles using the term "lived experience" means that a
combat droid who was stuck working in a basement, is literally up on the correct use of the latest gender studies terminology.
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