So what is your answer to correct this situatiuon?
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So what is your answer to correct this situatiuon?
Given how confident the Supergirl/Flash/Legends FX team has gotten with their use of fully-digital characters (for instance, the Flash and Supergirl are usually completely digital in their action scenes, and often the entire setting and everything in it is digital as well), I would expect they'll go pure-CGI for J'onn. After all, J'onn is significantly taller than Hank, and I think his facial structure is different even aside from the beetle brow. After all, it would be a pretty enormous coincidence if J'onn's natural facial structure just happened to be a match for a guy he only started impersonating a decade or so ago.
What fictional characters say is not discrimination of any kind, reverse or otherwise.
He was also Karen Gillan's boss in SELFIE
Oh, good grief, don't remind me of that show, please.
They had Mr. Sulu and Amy Pond in a show together, which could've been awesome, but I couldn't get through ten minutes of it. An embarrassing credit for several actors who deserved so much better.
Real life examples of white males and their societal advantage.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/23/entertainment/gillian-anderson-pay-gap-x-files-feat/index.html
If I were the Fox executives, I wouldn't have pissed "Stella Gibson" off!
The reason why the show uses Catco to illustrate the discrimination that women face is because they face it every day, in all walks of life in this country, in this century.
Dunno, one could start by having a nice little TV show that draws attention to the issue, kinda like Supergirl does...
No one important watches TV.
THANK YOU! It was driving me crazy where I knew him from! But he was acting so different I just didn't make the connection!
They serve as the mouthpieces of those producing the show. That is obvious.
Of course, but it still does not equate to discrimination.
Mouthpiece?
There's a thousand to one chance of that happening.
Not impossible, but still unlikely.
Greg has to temper his show to satisfy the network (The CW/CBS) suits, the license holder (DC), Standards and Practices (Prude Assholes who work for all of the above to make sure no one is offended or all of the above is not liable to lawsuits or vulnerable to massive FCC fines.), the Sponsors (Ford and Coke) and the audience (Us by way of Nielson sampling).
Greg is a man in a stock.
If he has a vision that would conflict with the network, the licence holders, standards and practices, the FCC, the sponsors and us, he has to stop, reconsider and invent less controversial thoughts that will not rock the boat for a show/series that probably depends an audience of mostly 11 year olds.
If you want a mouthpiece, write a book and self publish online.
There's a thousand to one chance of that happening.
Not impossible, but still unlikely.
Greg has to temper his show to satisfy the network (The CW/CBS) suits, the license holder (DC), Standards and Practices (Prude Assholes who work for all of the above to make sure no one is offended or all of the above is not liable to lawsuits or vulnerable to massive FCC fines.), the Sponsors (Ford and Coke) and the audience (Us by way of Nielson sampling).
Greg is a man in a stock.
If he has a vision that would conflict with the network, the licence holders, standards and practices, the FCC, the sponsors and us, he has to stop, reconsider and invent less controversial thoughts that will not rock the boat for a show/series that probably depends an audience of mostly 11 year olds.
If you want a mouthpiece, write a book and self publish online.
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Good points.
Within the plot and characterization seen on the show, misandry / discrimination is advocated.
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Please provide examples of either misandry/discrimination being advocated?
Acknowledging that sexism exists is not sexism. I see this way of thinking or retort being used for discussions of racism as well. If someone points it out, someone else is quick to reply its racist to say that.
My take on it is that Supergirl, perhaps not always elegantly, points out that sexism exists. That glass ceilings remain and that societal expectations or barriers sometimes inhibit women from reaching their full potential. How is that misandry or discrimination?
I'm glad that Supergirl is talking about these issues. The other Berlanti comic book shows almost exist in a completely social vacuum, where its simply about punching out bad guys week after week, with some character growth/romance on the side. You might get a touch on race in Arrow with Diggle sarcastically referring to himself as "Black Driver" or the Wests jokingly calling Barry "The White Shadow," but that's pretty much it. Supergirl's forays into gender issues gives it a bit of heft.
Addendum: I looked back at one of your previous posts and saw you did provide some more clarification of what you considered misandry/discrimination, though I wouldn't mind more examples.
Of what you wrote, I don't agree that it's whining, but that's my subjective opinion. I mean if you're living and dealing with something on a continual basis, you're apt to talk about it more than once. Regarding James I'm surprised-pleasantly so-that they even mentioned his feelings on race. It was something they didn't have to do. That being said, why they aren't dwelling on it, maybe its because he's not the main character. This show isn't his story, it's Kara's. And I think shows can be skittish about addressing race so I give them points for even mentioning it.
Please provide examples of either misandry/discrimination being advocated?
Acknowledging that sexism exists is not sexism. I see this way of thinking or retort being used for discussions of racism as well. If someone points it out, someone else is quick to reply its racist to say that.
My take on it is that Supergirl, perhaps not always elegantly, points out that sexism exists. That glass ceilings remain and that societal expectations or barriers sometimes inhibit women from reaching their full potential. How is that misandry or discrimination?
I'm glad that Supergirl is talking about these issues. The other Berlanti comic book shows almost exist in a completely social vacuum, where its simply about punching out bad guys week after week, with some character growth/romance on the side. You might get a touch on race in Arrow with Diggle sarcastically referring to himself as "Black Driver" or the Wests jokingly calling Barry "The White Shadow," but that's pretty much it. Supergirl's forays into gender issues gives it a bit of heft.
Addendum: I looked back at one of your previous posts and saw you did provide some more clarification of what you considered misandry/discrimination, though I wouldn't mind more examples.
Of what you wrote, I don't agree that it's whining, but that's my subjective opinion. I mean if you're living and dealing with something on a continual basis, you're apt to talk about it more than once. Regarding James I'm surprised-pleasantly so-that they even mentioned his feelings on race. It was something they didn't have to do. That being said, why they aren't dwelling on it, maybe its because he's not the main character. This show isn't his story, it's Kara's. And I think shows can be skittish about addressing race so I give them points for even mentioning it.
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Oh, what have I started by using the word "feminist". 
In a discussion like that about a tv show I always find it useful not to forget that things are always a little ambiguous or uncertain/unclear so it's always a bit about how you see things. As said I personally don't see much of an "agenda" of any kind in Supergirl.
In a discussion like that about a tv show I always find it useful not to forget that things are always a little ambiguous or uncertain/unclear so it's always a bit about how you see things. As said I personally don't see much of an "agenda" of any kind in Supergirl.
Two X-Files episodes, Supergirl, and The Flash in a period of the next three days. The DVR is going to get a work out.So anyway.... tomorrow's episode looks like it should be really good!
It appears to be a big Hank episode, with a pretty cool looking villain, and best of all, another Kara shirt rip.
Question: Where do all the villainous Kryptonians and non-Kryptonians come from? The ones who work with Astra and nuNon?
I know the first guy (the alien Kara fought in the first episode)had something to do with Astra and Non, but what is the clearest explanation for their presence?
I know the first guy (the alien Kara fought in the first episode)had something to do with Astra and Non, but what is the clearest explanation for their presence?