Talk:MIRIAM/@comment-65.91.117.76-20120413022630/@comment-53539-20120930105456

"Dumb american" also exists in the UK...  Thoguh your more likely to find a "idiot irishman" joke then anything else. I take stereotypes as they are, I get what the media is doing, its all back to that means of working where they pull out "character XYZ for role ABC in the scanerio123" routine. If the character fits the issue is great.

What I don't like? Certain type casting shows and films do all the time. Like...  I like a black actor to be allowed to be a character in the show, to be able to be what the character can be without facing the same formula I've seen for those rare times they put a black guy in,. because he becomes equal with the reest of the cast naturally and does not have to be "the black man in the cast for the sake of diversity", in other words, he would feel no different if he was white. When this happens, issue with ethnic minorities face out of the window because your enjoying the character and not whose the actor behind it.

Ditto I like it when a woman can have a moment where her physical weakness comes out, I'm not expecting her to be saved by a macho man as a result, but I'd like to see her react to overcoming her difficulties as a woman rather then being forced to be a man with boobs.

There are scnarios where this is unavoidable. You can't do something on "Of Mice and Men" without discussing the roles a few of the characters are in, because it was written as it was written. Its unavoidabel, but was from a time when things were not anywhere near what they are now and their still not perfect even now. In that case, you have to accept that things in the script won't be what you agree on. I just finished reading "Dracula" recently and Mina's role in that was difficult to bare... We know there is no difference in the blood of a man nor a woman tehse days, but they rejected two maids for blood donars because of their gender to save another character because "only a man's blood is strong enough to save the character". Yet as I just said, we know it doesn't matter. :-/

sometimes I see roles I'm offended by... Even in childrens shows, like Teent titains (I like superheroes so I watched a kiddies cartoon okay? ^_^'), Mad mod I cringed in every appearance he made. But I "got it" and I was stll able to enjoy the show despite the flat out pro-America stance his episodes often were doing.