So, I don't get this. I really don't.

[lyssie]

There's a lack of well-written female and non-white characters on TV and in media. But people who whine about that, still watch things produced and created by people who are shit at writing anything but white males

HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT LOGIC WORK?

If you want more well-written women and non-white characters? STOP WATCHING AND SUPPORTING THE PEOPLE WHO CANNOT DO IT.

Otherwise? Shut the fuck up about how you want no sexism and racism in TV and media. Because you are PART OF THE FUCKING PROBLEM.

Comments

[ellestra.livejournal.com]

My problem lies in the fact that women are usually the ones I like most. If I don't like female characters (there isn't any) I tend not to watch. And I noticed that when there's a problem with female characters, male characters aren't that great either. It's just that somehow male characters get a pass because the actors are cute or something. And that annoys me more then anything.

(I tend not to speak about POC characters and rasism in other countries shows because many things are culturally determined and, despite watching American shows all my life, I often am puzzled by what is acceptable an what is not. I, however, have always been puzzled by the lack of Asian and Native American characters in US TV scape.)