Entries tagged with diversity

Yesterday I went on my first ever Pride march! It's the first one I've had the chance to go on in the sense that I knew about it - there was one (the first ever in Colchester) last year, but I didn't know that (or that there was a Colchester Pride at all in 2022, I guess I was still living under a rock) until talking to someone yesterday while waiting for the march to start.

I think the first ever Colchester Pride was in 2017, and again I didn't know about it till afterwards. I went to the next two, and then You Know What happened. They were basically festivals, at and in the grounds of an arts venue. I didn't go to the festival part this year: the programme looked like mainly cabaret, which is not my thing (I'm an old fogey), and although mostly outdoors, crowds of unmasked strangers still = No Thanks.

Pride should be a protest! It's not as if we don't have plenty to protest about, specifically as queer people and in general!

*waves tiny flag*

( minor spoilers )

So let's talk about diversity in casting instead. Because diversity is good, right? And we get more of it nowadays than we used to, in general? Maybe? The trouble is, once "they" have cast somebody other than an able-bodied straight-acting white dude or an able-bodied straight-acting white female-love-interest, it's like their imaginations say "Our work here is done!" and they can't think of anything for them to do that isn't from ClichesRUs.

You'd think they could swap the clichés around a bit. You don't see shows where the Chinese or Asian-American chick has the street smarts or the social connections, the black chick is the computer wiz and the white chick (a fat blonde, because fat people can move too) has the martial arts moves. Do you? If anybody knows a show like that, point me at it. (Note: I've seen the first season of Dark Angel.)

Pride march

Not a review of Sherlock: The Blind Banker