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• I like Women For Women International. You sponsor a woman in a country like Rwanda or the Congo providing money for business training, etc. And you also get to write your sponsoree letters. What's more cool than that?
  (posted to Your favorite charities?)
• This is a good point (about whether or not its fair to make racial judgements), but it's hard not to read Battlestar as a commentary on contemporary issues. If we leave out the race issues, we also have to
  (posted to Battlestar Galactica: Rape Portrayals)
• I will leave one last thought. There are two other black male characters. One is shown as the overlord of a seedy black market. He is murdered by Apollo. The only other black man then are armed guards, who have
  (posted to Battlestar Galactica: Rape Portrayals)
• Characters of color largely repeat stock stories and repeat stereotypes in unsavory ways. Dualla, Gaeta, and Athena/Boomer are notable exceptions, but all top positions of power are held by white characters. The human-cylon story does serve as a critique of
  (posted to Battlestar Galactica: Rape Portrayals)

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• Shoot, I blame my mistakes on massive sleepiness and exam stress (I misspelled "they're" too. *sigh*) (posted to Battlestar Galactica: Rape Portrayals)
• Shoot, I blame my mistakes on massive sleepiness and exam stress (I misspelled "they're" too. *sigh*) (posted to Battlestar Galactica: Rape Portrayals)
• Thinking back on this, I decided one thing for sure: Storytelling is a very effective way to get a point across. That said, the minute a story starts putting its agenda before realistic characterization is the minute it starts to (posted to Battlestar Galactica: Rape Portrayals)
• I am tired of seeing Black & White in this country. As an Asian Pacific American, I am tired of seeing news and actual life Black man prey on White, Latino, Native, Middle East, Asian Woman. I think our TV, (posted to Battlestar Galactica: Rape Portrayals)
• I suspect that she meant that an asian person is neither black or white so they fit somewhere in the middle? Um, yeah, that doesn't make much sense but its the best I can come up with. Too bad the (posted to Battlestar Galactica: Rape Portrayals)

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