me and TV

I've become one of those people.

Yesterday, I got excited because the library had a new disc of Battlestar Galactica for me. I made a special trip.

Yesterday, I also had a moment of pleasure when I found the Stargate SG1 episode list I'd been missing for a few weeks.

Also, I don't seem to have much trouble keeping up with new episodes of The 4400, Eureka, and The Closer these days.

I have become, once again, someone who cares at least a little bit about TV. Possibly even one of those fangirls who watches just a little bit too much of the scifi channel. I've even been beta-reading fanfic by the talented blu_flamingo.

If I ever say, "I'd rather watch TV than read," then you can shoot me.

speak about racism

I support International Blog Against Racism Week.

And now, a very quick rant on Firefly/Serenity and race.

So, it's the future. The cultures of China and America are dominant throughout the galaxy. So why are there no Asian people? If the Chinese are so hegemonic that speaking Chinese is ubiquitous, why does no one look Asian or part-Asian? Not even minor characters. I snarl at you, nondiverse portrayals!

a collection of thoughts in honor of IBARW

indigoskynet made this icon JUST FOR ME!

I am a fourth-generation US immigrant on both sides of my family.

"Okay with interracial relationships" was one of the stated requirements for our current batch of roommates.

Why, on TV shows, do the characters almost always have relationships with characters of the same racial background? It always bugs me.

About 50 years ago, my uncle married a Catholic girl. His parents, my grandparents, refused to go to the wedding. They were divorced less than a year later. He then married a blond from a "nice family." They are still together.

I grew up in a small town in New England, which used to pride itself on the epithet "Lily-White."

When I was ten, I heard my grandmother speculate over whether some people she had seen were Jewish, and was confused by it. She explained that they were "dark, and seemed well-off."

I have helped deliver the baby of an interracial couple.

Have you all seen the Gender Pyramid in Kate Bornstein's _My Gender Workbook_? The Gender Pyramid changed the way I think about gender, and race, forever.

Neither interracial nor same-sex marriage has yet been proven to destroy the institution of marriage.

I have one family recipe, handed down from before my grandmother's time. It's for meatball soup.

Race is one of the only ways I'm not a minority.