• thane16 replied to the topic Arachnids In The UK

    @tardigrade

    you can see why the Doctor might come across as lesbian- relatively short hair, androgynous clothing

    Big tick there.   Mum now has short hair;  wears dad’s T-shirts and his 3/4 long trackie-dacks.  In America or the UK you might not know those. In Australia it’s tracksuits in stretch fabric.

    I apologise for such a long post. I was tr…[Read more]

  • nerys replied to the topic Arachnids In The UK

    @hobbyco White male children need positive role models too!!

    I would say Graham qualifies, wouldn’t you?

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic Arachnids In The UK

    @lionheart564 as I pointed out to @hobbyco, Rosa showed female racists, even one he referred to while trying to make a point about portrayal of heterosexuals.

    As for racism from people who aren’t white, the last series showed Bill, encountering a blue person for the first time, and inadvertently coming across as, well, a little racist.

  • JimTheFish replied to the topic Arachnids In The UK

    @hobbyco

    Am I the only one who is noticing that in every episode so far, the “baddy” is white and male (unless they are a “monster

    So, it’s a white male except when it isn’t, is that what you’re saying? And out of four episodes, two had white male antagonists. That’s a pretty even split, don’t you think?

    it would be great to see a female “badd…

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  • Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic Arachnids In The UK

    @hobbyco

    Am I the only one who is noticing that in every episode so far, the “baddy” is white and male

    Yup, because as @miapatrick points out, that simply isn’t true. The baddy has been, respectively, alien, non-white (possibly alien), from the dominant race in a racist society, and not orange, honest, because the Orange One will probably sue…[Read more]

  • Darth Valaryn replied to the topic Arachnids In The UK

    @hobbyco

    Please believe me when I tell you it is not my intention to start some huge political debate (I just got over one in the Rosa Forum… neither of our minds changed).

    I just find it very surreal. I have been hearing very similar arguments for years. The best illustration is when I was in college and the Communication Dept. attempted to…[Read more]

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic Arachnids In The UK

    @hobbyco wow, that’s quite a stretch.

    First episode, bad guy was an alien.

    Second episode – yes, I think Art Malik was playing a bad guy. He engineered a death race. So the bad guy was Asian.

    Third episode, the bad guy was a white male. The time traveller. It’s interesting that you’ll reference the wife of one of the other characters to make a…[Read more]