Cool, I saw Miriam's post last night and was thinking of mentioning it to you. I'm glad someone else did and I love reading your thoughts about it, even though I don't really know the show and didn't see that episode.
I was at first delighted by The Arrow of Time because I was delighted to see Don in synagogue. I let that delight blind me to the huge problems in the way that was presented
I find this kind of thing happens to me all the time, whether it's with Jewish characters or characters of color. I get so excited to see them there in the first place (and not fulfilling the crudest stereotypes) and even better to see their background acknowledged in some way, that I totally miss how problematic the presentation is, and I need other people who are more knowledgeable to spell it out for me. And of course then I get grumpy because it's so disappointing. :)
I think I have something else to say about writers and actors and whether characters are written as of their race or ethnicity or just cast that way, but I want to think about it a little more before I comment. Do you watch House at all? Did you watch ER?
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Date: 2009-01-17 05:24 pm (UTC)I was at first delighted by The Arrow of Time because I was delighted to see Don in synagogue. I let that delight blind me to the huge problems in the way that was presented
I find this kind of thing happens to me all the time, whether it's with Jewish characters or characters of color. I get so excited to see them there in the first place (and not fulfilling the crudest stereotypes) and even better to see their background acknowledged in some way, that I totally miss how problematic the presentation is, and I need other people who are more knowledgeable to spell it out for me. And of course then I get grumpy because it's so disappointing. :)
I think I have something else to say about writers and actors and whether characters are written as of their race or ethnicity or just cast that way, but I want to think about it a little more before I comment. Do you watch House at all? Did you watch ER?