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Post #982026

Author
yhwx
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All Things Star Trek
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Date created
11-Aug-2016, 5:31 PM

pittrek said:

Warbler said:

pittrek said:

Soooooo…

  • a gay character? Sounds OK if they will make it interesting.
  • a female lead? Sounds OK if they make her interesting.
  • thinking about how “diverse” she should be? If I was “non-white” I would probably find it offensive.

why? what would you be offended about?

Now this will be a bit problematic to explain for me in English but basically I believe all people should be judged not by their race / gender / age / sexual orientation … but by what they can bring to the society.

Here’s the thing: Society and culture does not exist in a vacuum. If people see more minorities and women (Women aren’t minorities — they’re half of the planet) represented in media, that works towards those groups being accepted.