Um, because they're imaginary creatures and won't actually march (or blog) in protest?
More seriously, that's a really good question. There's a boundary somewhere, but where is it? Or is it that they've been appropriated for so long that people don't think about it?
For one very general example, some of the worst offenders are quite recent borrowings that try to add an "exotic" setting for an otherwise ordinary story. (Though wasn't there a cyberpunk story with zombies back in the '80s?)
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Date: 2008-07-13 12:53 pm (UTC)More seriously, that's a really good question. There's a boundary somewhere, but where is it? Or is it that they've been appropriated for so long that people don't think about it?
For one very general example, some of the worst offenders are quite recent borrowings that try to add an "exotic" setting for an otherwise ordinary story. (Though wasn't there a cyberpunk story with zombies back in the '80s?)