*sigh*

[murasaki_plum]

If anyone has been following the implosion over Uhura's hair with flouncing, all I could do was watch and stare as misunderstandings gave way to people showing their asses and innocent disagreements were met with hostility and people projecting their anger from incidents unrelated from the discussion at hand. I didn't comment because what the OP

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[aishuu]

This was kind of my reaction to the whole MC thing (which I saw you noticed on my journal). People WANT to take offense...

I really can't consider a more inclusive fandom than Star Trek... which is why this wank is so amusing to me. This is not some kind of subconscious political statement... I think the actress who was cast had straight hair, so they went for a straight-hair style. It's not like all members of a racial group look EXACTLY THE SAME.

[murasaki_plum]

Exactly! Even in the same family, my mother has naturally straight like Zoe Saldana except my mom's a redhead; her brothers and sister have dark brown hair with a coarse texture. Me and my siblings have dark reddish-brown hair; my brother's hair texture is like mom's while RA and I have thick and tight curls.

And like you said, it was wanting to take offense over anything than to actually be informative.

[rawthorne]

You know my thoughts on yaoi this wank already, so I won't start repeating them. I heartily agree with your second to last paragraph. Was the movie perfect at representing race? No, but I have a very hard time thinking of one that is. To give an example, we talk about Hollywood using stereotypes to portray Asians. At the same time, in Korea, the movie Antique Bakery had a white French male ticking all the boxes to how you would expect a white French male to behave if you go by cultural meme. And certainly going on a forum about Antique Bakery and bitching about that portrayal is one way to handle it

[murasaki_plum]

How did I not watch this movie? But I agree, writing off a whole thing for a faux pas is counter-productive. Calling attention to it is a good start, I think. Fighting people who honestly don't know doesn't resolve anything.

(They almost did in DS9 with Jadzia Dax and Lenara Kahn, but it was rationalized that their past relationship was with a heterosexual Trill couple. But you're right, there are bigger issues in Star Trek that are overlooked, fighting over Uhura's actress having bone-straight hair is quite low on the list of things that I'd like to see the franchise work on.)

[rawthorne]

It's not as good as it sounds, the story is fairly trite and the main character got to me so bad I had a hard time caring about his twagic past.

(They've had a number of close calls and early scripts actually show a number of storylines as early as Next Gen were supposed to involved homosexual undertones. I think it was Riker who was getting seduced by androgynous aliens - who in the original script had been male but were turned biologically female by the time it made it to the screen.)

[krazysidhe]

Wow, that's really about all I have to say after skimming through that. People just really like to argue over small things. I think compared to the original show the rolls of women were improved in the move. Perhaps not greatly but it wasn't as demeaning as I find the original series when I go back and watch it now. Though I suppose if it wasn't this thing it would be something else. In the end we seem to enjoy arguing.