Just a PSA
Apr. 29th, 2006 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Trying to write Lister/Rimmer when Rimmer is still in Trixie LaBouche's body is oddly disconcerting.
Just thought I'd share that little factoid with everyone.
*shakes head* the phrase 'his breasts' is just not right!
Edited to add: I have finished writing the fic in question, so if people want to read it, it's here.
Just thought I'd share that little factoid with everyone.
*shakes head* the phrase 'his breasts' is just not right!
Edited to add: I have finished writing the fic in question, so if people want to read it, it's here.
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Date: 2006-04-29 01:28 pm (UTC)It irritates me that Kochanski, a female officer in what's quite clearly 'the boys' club' world of officerhood in the Space Corps, is still portrayed as quite shallow at times. I feel that to get where she has in the clearly sexist hierarchy, she should be quite a bit tougher than she often appears. On the other hand, I suppose being stuck on Starbug with 'our' crew and then being thrown into the Brig would break down anyone's toughness, really.
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Date: 2006-04-29 01:49 pm (UTC)In the Red Dwarf Omnibus Captain Hollister is changed to a woman, so it's difficult to decide exactly how gender equality works in the Red Dwarf universe. Maybe each colony has different standards, I'd imagine Io would of been very traditionalist, which would explain the Rimmer family attitudes.
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Date: 2006-04-29 01:58 pm (UTC)I wonder whether that change in the Omnibus was after complaints about the complete gender imbalance in the show? I get the strong feeling that there's still a lot of sexism, probably stronger on some colonies than others. Io seems to be stuck in the past (and by that I mean our past, not just the past of the RD timeline).
Eh. I guess we just deal with it by writing more Mary Sues :-D
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Date: 2006-04-29 02:16 pm (UTC)I get the feeling that Red Dwarf, in some aspects, is very much a mirror of how Rob Grant and Doug Naylor see the world. They're both English and the show has a distinctly English vibe which goes beyound the fact that most of the characters have English accents, and they're both male so female characters are written as seen through male eyes.