Left-reading

Interpretations of media that makes excuses for sexist/anti-lgbtq/racist themes by giving undue credit and nuance to authorial intent; especially as a way to give a pass to offensive writing in movies/books/etc you might enjoy.

"Zelda isn't actually a damsel in distress because she helps in defeating the final boss"

"No, that's just a left-reading of her role. She still has to wait around for Link to save her very frequently."

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"The left-readings of Rey's role in Star Wars Episode 8 are too forgiving, considering she spends so much of the film trying to 'fix' men. "

by smeefus August 27, 2019

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hit with the reads

When your in a class and you and your friends are not working at ALL, but you teacher thinks you are wroking.

WOW, Dude. We "hit with the reads" on our teacher and she never picked up on it. All class we never did any work.

by Drew Debree July 4, 2016

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read up on it

What you may literally hafta do if you wanna learn Chinese --- some of their text is arranged in a vertical column that hasta be scanned from the bottom to the top in order to decipher it. Makes ya wonder how the Chinese don't get sore necks from all dat bobble-headed noddin' they do whenever they sit down to read da mornin' paper.

Learning how to make sense of all that fancy vertical signage in Chinatown is fairly simple --- just read up on it.

by QuacksO May 9, 2018

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