Exactly! This is the point I made less well a little above.

Well, only if you count "making a decision to risk her life so an innocent man can go home to his wife and infant" as meaningless. I myself appreciate that the season has been a mix of low stakes and high. Not every episode has to be about saving the world or rebooting time or whatever. Think how many times the…

Last time it was on! Anything else I can help you with?

"So feminists would prefer that films shove women into roles and situations in order to pass a quota"

Point to you: you gave my white-male-privileged viewpoint a well-deserved smackdown re: race and driving tests, while still evading the point that insisting solutions solve everything solves nothing. So long as conversations about dealing with one kind of discrimination get derailed with "you don't have it as bad as I…

Irrelevant to the issue of casting movies in general? Not at all. Irrelevant to a conversation specifically about casting women, with a fairly clear message of "you don't have it as bad as other people, so quit your bellyachin'"? Then yes, irrelevant every time.

Ha! Fair enough. I guess I should have said "I don't see any *good* reason why" etc.

My driving test didn't factor in race, either, because that's not what it was trying to measure. It's not clear to me why every conversation about one problem has to be about every other problem.

"BAWWW WHAT ABOUT MOVIES IN MEN'S PRISONS, HMM, THAT PROVES YOU'RE THE REAL SEXIST"

Well, both the article and the comment you are specifically replying to have anticipated and answered both of your points. I recommend rereading. Pause a moment to let the overall effect of complete paragraphs sink in, and then see if you still have any questions.