How is enjoying the good parts of the current compromises a bad thing?
I'm not Ny, but I'm going to have a go at this anyway: there's nothing wrong with enjoying the good parts, so long as you don't use them as an excuse not to listen. Which some people do - they're like "What are you talking about? There can't be racism in Firefly, they're so non-racist that they speak Mandarin!"
I just feel like-- we're not going to achieve the Perfect Diverse Show anytime in the immediate future.
No, but we can improve the status quo. And talking about the problems keeps them from festering, and keeps the people whose voices aren't being heard from, well, being silenced even more. And what we don't talk about we can't change.
It's not like blaming Zoe (God, no!) for being not being enough of a Credit To Her Race, it's like saying to Joss Whedon "You're a talented writer, you can do better than this."
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Date: 2006-09-23 11:52 pm (UTC)I'm not Ny, but I'm going to have a go at this anyway: there's nothing wrong with enjoying the good parts, so long as you don't use them as an excuse not to listen. Which some people do - they're like "What are you talking about? There can't be racism in Firefly, they're so non-racist that they speak Mandarin!"
I just feel like-- we're not going to achieve the Perfect Diverse Show anytime in the immediate future.
No, but we can improve the status quo. And talking about the problems keeps them from festering, and keeps the people whose voices aren't being heard from, well, being silenced even more. And what we don't talk about we can't change.
It's not like blaming Zoe (God, no!) for being not being enough of a Credit To Her Race, it's like saying to Joss Whedon "You're a talented writer, you can do better than this."