And I'll continue to be surprised by the lack of interest here in A Brief History Of Seven Killings by Marlon James: I mean it's a pulpy, pop-culture referencing epic with a smattering of fantasy, written by a gay black man. I'd have thought it would be right in the sweet spot.

he wears expensive clothes, lives in rich apartments, and surrounds himself with beautiful women.

Much as it feels slightly awkward to be the one to leap to the defence of the white males (so feel free to roll your eyes), I think you're being a bit parochial with only seeing Kilgrave's power as an analogy to 'white male privilege.'
Kilgrave has total power, is completely unbound by social convention or morality…

Safety officer at a nuclear power plant is blue collar? Or did you mean when he was an astronaut?

I dunno, the bit about "…a man who preaches law and nonviolence but enforces the status quo—but only after an hour-plus of table-setting…" sounds like an interesting stylistic choice. Does he set the table in real time or during some kind of montage?

I'm not sure I understand how the phrase Lone Male Survivor relates to Moses. Isn't kind of the point of exodus that Moses lead thousands of people out of Egypt, so that the entire race survived? More generally, you're never alone if you have a burning bush.

I think Doctor Who is one of the best tests of a writer's skill on television. It's so completely wide open you can get away with nearly anything. Which leaves you with nowhere to hide and limited basics to fall back on. It can be brilliant when it's done well… but it's so rarely done well.

Even as a Whedon fan, I find the Avengers films pretty weak.

The thing is Rowling was definitely planning to address this issue. Goblet of Fire introduces a whole host of foreign wizards and nations and there are scattered mentions of the need for international cooperation. There's just no follow through.
I suspect that she found the problems of scale and politics a little…

You've obviously never been to Birmingham. (UK)

Almost all animal lovers are selective, surely. Few people like cockroaches and wasps as much as ponies and poodles.

Right, some of these were probably mentioned already but: