Lit Ignorance is Bias: The Diversity Manifesto

Duloks are a separate species that are distantly related to ewoks, so ewoks aren't cannibals.

 

Homosexuality in fiction is an odd thing to write around.

What do you depict?

A loving stable relation ship, in fiction that means someone is ending up in a refregierator!

A Dysfuctional relationship, might come off as anti-gay when it is the opposite you are going for.

A homosexual character not in a relationship, problematic because if the dry spell lasts to long other writers my forget the character is homosexual or simply assume they are aesexual.

In the New BSG Felix Gaeta, was said to be bisexual, but it was never shown in the series (the character was busy dealing with other things)

In Star Trek expanded universe it has been implimented sporadicly, but never between lasting couples. Unsuprising as Starfleet is military and reassignment and death of characters is common.

 

Exactly. That's how you avoid unfortunate implications.

 

In fiction? some one always gets refrigeraterd.

 

Since there's no management directive to do so that I'm aware of, I'd say that's irrelevant. The fact that it occurs often in fiction does not mean it has to continue doing so.

 

I ment in general fiction not, fan fiction, or slash fiction, or what ever its going by these days.

 

Now, I decided to write in this thread.

The fact most protagonist and main casts are white Human men or have one in them bothered me since getting into the Expanded Universe. The Star Wars galaxy contains 20 million sentient species of all kinds, Humans originating from Coruscant but looking like them on Earth are the majority of galactic population, guess 20%. But, dramatis personae often, as shown in the first post, contain ~30% white Human man in most cases, which logically would result in 60% white Humans, with other ethnicies ~65-70% Humans. Obviously something's not right there.

More diversity in SW would be really nice. More aliens, more women and more ethnicies. Besides characters more diverse stories and themes besides "Jedi vs. Sith" and planets having more than one terrain, one climate, one culture, three imports, two exports and not being treated like consisting of nothing but capital and spaceport.

But until people start looking over the edge the "standard video game character" will be common I guess.

 

Dident they just use recolored Ewoks in SWG for Duloks? Though who knows they might be really close like Neanderthal (which we apparently ate) and modern humans.

They just happen to only mention major ones of course most worlds will Import, Export and Produce all kinds of stuff.

 

You could do all of those things, just like with any type of relationship. But yeah, a relationship can be normal and still have the characters have angst without being "dysfunctional".

 

We need more topics that talk about anthropophagy.

 

Speaking as the founder of the diversity thread, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say SW doesn't need more anthropophagy.

 

There was one alien guy in a comic who ate children. I can't remember which comic it was.

 

That would be Dezono Qua.

A white Human male.

 

Dezono Qua, a Human, ate alien children in Dark Times: The Path to Nowhere. Sick bastard.

...as Trak beat me to.

 

Because he could. Definitely one of the more disturbing villains we've had. Dark Times indeed.

 

Thanks. I forgot he was a whm.

 

You have to give that white Human male some credit, though.

He is an equal-opportunity diner.

 

Indeed he is. Too bad no one ate him in return.

 

Looking at him, he'd be all fatty and gristly. Who would want to eat that? Though, I guess if you cut him into strips and have him hickory-smoked to perfection, he might be pretty good...

 

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