This is an 'article' in the form of a letter posed to Eric Kripke regarding issues of race in Supernatural. You can read the article without my commentary
HERE if you don't want to read how much I disagree. No spoilers for s5. My comments underlined.
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Dear Mr Kripke, I love your horrible, damaging Show. )
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See. as soon as anyone illustrates an example that falls into her criteria but negates her theory, that example will be deemed no longer "important".
*sigh* You just can't argue with people like that.
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Tell me, when is the cut-off date for complaining about things that bother you? At what point are we all obligated to sit down and shut up because we should have said something earlier?
tahirire, tell me to just go away. *facepalm*
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This may not to relevant to anyone making your argument but it is to me: as with most casting calls for Supernatural, the character applications are listed as ALL ETHNICITIES WELCOME. If no black woman goes to the audition for that role, whose fault is that?
Society's.
The game is rigged from the start. General societal discrimination leads to fewer minorities applying for roles in a white-dominated industry. Jobs almost anywhere are technically "all ethnicities welcome" and yet minorities are disproportionately at the bottom of the heap.
Kripke etc. have a choice: they can deliberately and intentionally cast more minorites, an action which would address social injustice but which some may see as 'reverse racism' (oh how I hate that phrase), or they can paste a feel-good "all ethnicities welcome" on their casting calls and be not-actively-discriminatory while still remaining disproportionately white.
Blah blah blah I am in favour of affirmative action.
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Everyone has the right to their opinion. I am just tired of hearing about this. I love my show and I want to enjoy the new season, but apparently, at less than 24 hours left to go, the important thing on Fandom's mind is to HURRY AND WANK MORE!
is kind of worrisome to me. One woman deciding to express some troubles she sees in the show is not anything about "the important thing on fandom's mind". She didn't come to your journal and post it. She posted in her own space or somewhere she was presumably invited (don't know enough about the site to say). The old "I'm tired of hearing about this you're harshing my squee just be quiet and enjoy it" is...something that bothers me a lot.
Even if she's wrong she's still free to talk about these things in her own space.
Now I really have to go out! I swear this time.
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LOL, GO ALREADY!
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To be fair, that last part happens to me a lot, so. ;)
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*Wanders back into my corner of sane fandom*
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Well, I'm a fan, but my feminist side sometimes has a hard time dealing with the way women are portrayed on the show. Just because I'm a fan doesn't mean I'm an uncritical viewer.
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