Give Satisfaction

Here's a different sort of aspect that Bertie, as a rich white British male character, symbolizes for me. So much of the media I consume is centered on upper-class white men and it really annoys me sometimes how they're held as the universal standard for subjects worthy of attention and how I just fall for it. I sometimes wonder whose stories I'm missing out on because I'm too busy absorbing yet another white dude's perspective.

Not to mention the nerdiness of the nostalgia for these imaginary idealized "civilized" "good old days" in England. PGW satirized that but it's not like he was some kind of social justice warrior.

Of course it's not as simple as "all British people = colonizers and oppressors" but I think it is worth asking why the world loves commodifying and fetishizing British culture so much and how so many of us become "anglophiles."

I'm mostly cool with this and used to it because it applies to nearly every fandom I've been into. Everything/everyone is problematic in some way so you just have to be a critical fan of the things you love.