justTrip'n wrote:T'Poptarts wrote:It's like in those commercials when they have one person from each ethnicity. Like what the frell, why can't people just be people? Why does IDIC have to be so forced and fake??
I hate to break it to you, but some of us LOVE the commercials with the interracial couples. It's more common in real life than on commercials, so when we see it, we go FINALLY, someone NOTICED WE'RE HERE!
Same for Star Trek. Total lack of homosexuality to this point! Finally we get some homosexulaity in Star Trek. Great, because it reflects real life.
Also I edited my comment above, but it was too late. I don't want to instigate trouble. But your objection to the word "husband" in this context really . . . well I have to tone down my immediate response.
I will repeat a point from above that I put in the edited section. OF COURSE the recording was for Trip's nephew's fourth grade class. Otherwise, what a coincidence! It would be at least equally plausible to just say the children of the brother and brother-in-law exist, but weren't mentioned in TGTMD.
I wasn't talking about commercials with interracial couples, I was talking about commercials without couples that have exactly 1 person from each ethnicity to reach every possible "target demography", which for some reason is like either racist enough to not buy that whatever product if it's not like "endorsed" by a character with the same ethnicity ( ), or is thought to not buy a product that's not endorsed by the same ethnicity by advertisers who hold those racist views. Also I guess I forget sometimes not everyone actually gets to see it from all the angles and only see it on its face which might look better... but as someone who's seen the process and the behind the scenes aspect that's really kinda ugly
I have absolutely nothing against gays or interracial couples (hell I'm the product of an interracial marriage) or whatever "minority" etc I just have a problem with politically correctness, well obviously to each their own but personally I'm an equalist, and I think politically correctness like totally sucks mivonks because it's as far as possible from equality because its whole point is treating different people unequally because they're different. And in my opinion people are equal in spite of their differences. So for example what bothers me isn't the fact that there's an interracial couple, or a gay couple, or a purple cat. What bothers me is the fact that in most mainstream industry when there's an interracial couple, or a gay couple, or a purple cat it's usually to either stick it in our face (politically correctness) or make a whole lot of fuss about it (uh what's the opposite of acceptance?). Like speaking for myself, who the frell cares that the chinese chick has a white husband? How come no one makes a fuss of the white chick with the white husband or sticks that in people's face? What's there to make a fuss of anyway? Oh so that dude had a husband. Big frelling deal, my mother has a husband too. And that cat's purple? Heh I've seen a white cat once. And quite a few black ones, and plenty with spots. Guess what? They all say the same "meow"!
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Um like I said I haven't read TGTMD so I have no idea how it's been done there, though if I take what's been mentioned it sounds like (correct me if I'm wrong) it was done just for the sake of doing it with nothing really to do with the plot which is a way I personally don't like, but anyway. I'm only responding to the comments about politically correctness etc and not really to the context of the book because I don't know.