That’s awesome, I love it! We shouldn’t ever forget that there are a lot of us doing our part to keep us evolving.

These issues can bring out the frustration in people all around, I think. So I get it and I get irked too. This isn’t a controversial perspective to me because color-blind social commentary cannot reflect a world that feels real to me as a black woman. So I find it all a bit perplexing.

Mining the actual history of black women in America merely as a cautionary take for white women? Wait, what?

Yes, they could have invested extra time and story to deal with their inclusion of POC in this society, but that isn’t what the story is about and would have meant cutting other elements out to make room for extra narrative.

The inability to understand that works of fiction often address issues, events, topics, etc. in artificial isolation rather than depicting them as part of the broader fabric they are part of in real life astounds me.

How so?? Calling out someone’s lack of imagination would likely include some explanation as to what you find objectionable, or unimaginative.

100% believe that’s what the showrunners were going for. It’s so stupid though - they literally could have devoted 1-2 sentences to this in one of Offred’s internal monologues and laid the issue to rest. And spared us 40,000 thinkpieces in the process*.

I believe I also heard reasoning that they felt it didn’t make any earthly sense for people suffering from widespread sterility to be that damn picky about the ethnicity of their breeding slaves. Which, yeah. Good point.

You can’t win. If you use race- or sex-blind casting, then you wind up with a racial mixture. And then you have to address that mixture. And that might distract from the story that you’re trying to tell. Handmaid’s Tale is about the oppression of women, not racial minorities. Not every piece of media has to tick every…

I can’t imagine casting non-white actors to play Nazis in The Man in the High Castle.

I think the showrunners specifically addressed this. They said something along the lines of: there’s not much difference between making an all-white show about racists and making a racist show.

Whataboutism is strong in American discourse. You’re not allowed to focus on the issues that women face without highlighting how much worse it is for women of color lest you be accused of being a White Feminist.

And if they would have chosen the former, we would have an article about lack of diversity in media here on io9.

Given misogyny knows no color could that be the road they’re taking? I’m reminded of Chris Rock’s joke that he was able to talk to Anthony Hopkins easily by opening with “Women are crazy.” It was the common bond between men and something like this is it taken to the extreme. “Can all us dudes get along and put these…

One is not asked to suspend one’s belief, one is asked to suspend one’s disbelief.

I swear I read specifically that they changed that plot line from the book in order to be able to cast PoC in major roles. I think your choices were:

Except, of course, that the point of Atwood’s novel was to explore issues with sexism, not racism. Atwood dealt with that by perfunctorily writing POCs out of the story so it took place in monoculture. Had the show runners done that, people would be outraged about them failing to address the genocide issue, so they…

So the show’s problem is that it treats its POC characters the same as its non-POC characters?.

I think I misread your original post as saying that the newspaper article about Flash disappearing was about him disappearing now which is very clearly not what you were saying. Now that I’ve realized my mistake I completely agree, that’s a great point - if Barry going into the speed force was really his end then…

Cut the boy a break. He can’t walk and the Mother of Dragons has a flying dragon that she literally rides into town on.