Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20151012162920/@comment-53539-20151117110010

There was that time I tried to figure out a suitable classification of Iroha's voice... Boy was that awkward... Trying to explain how gender effects the voice and how it matters to Iroha because of the old "are they masculine or feminine" thing was not only embarrassing but really difficult... People are really sensitive about things when you just mean well and all that.

It was basically the same thing as we had with Len, despite Len being male the voice is a female vocal in itself. Though either way, when you have someone like me who can't put to words what they mean 100% of the time you feel like all you're doing is digging yourself a deeper hole trying to get out. And when people are reacting in non-helpful ways youfeel like you're not achieving what you set out to do. :-/

I actually saw an episode of "Inspector Frost", a TV detective show from the 90s" yesterday with relatable issues... That episode saw Frost paired up with a young black man. He was chosen above anyone else that had skills because of his skin colour, which actually annoyed him as he felt like he really had earn his place. As he put it to Frost it was the 90s concept of "Positive Discrimination", wherein you select the minor ethnic member to balance out the forces and make it easier for people to accept those of different skin colour.

A good idea, except it didn't work in practice all the time. Condoleezza Rice may have dealt with Arabic relations in her tie of office, but reality is for being both black and female they never really took her seriously. Bare in mind they don't take a white guy seriously enough, but a lot of the arabic cultures saw blacks under a discriminatory eye worst then whites, and females aren't on par with males in a lot of arab countries. In short, for every good thing she did, it was likely she didn't get another 12 things done. When I discussed this in the Beyblade fandom, we had someone say "but how will things ever change if they aren't forced to deal with the issue?". True, but you can't throw someone who doesn't know how to swim into the deep end of the pool and pray they learn to swim before drowning. These things had to take time and at the time foreign affairs with Arabic cultures in 2005 were t delicate levels... Still are in many cases.

But the one thing everyone did agree on was that true equality means you can't pick based on skin colour, gender, etc at all. If there is someone with better skills and you don't pick them out of the list of candidates for whatever reason based on a detail such as secuality, gender, religions, blood type, can roll their tongue or not... Whatever... Then no progress is made. :-/