I'm about to go to bed, but I wanted to reply because this really hit me; it relates to something that really bothers me in fandom sometimes- especially Star Trek and Gundam Wing. Its HOW many years in the future and there is still sexism/homophobia. Really? You can't imagine that hundreds of years in the future DADT and homophobia and sexism would be gone? Look at Canada! or one several other countries that don't care what sex their military personnel sleep with. More than one country today allows people of the same sex to get married. Sexism is in no way gone, but its a lot less in most developed countries than 30 years ago and even less developed countries are starting to try- why can't that trend continue? And look at Fullmetal Alchemist... its a shonen series so they pretty much skip the idea of sex entirely except for crushes and a few minor references, but since the authors never bothered to say why add DADT? If the series never addresses it, why assume its there instead of assuming its not?
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Date: 25 Oct 2010 12:38 pm (UTC)