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As opposed to your world changing contributions of bitching online to random strangers?

Keep fighting the good fight. I'm sure you're just one more post away from saving the planet.

Oh fuck off with the mindless cynicism.

The amount of plastic used in those glasses, which is only in the lenses as the rest is card paper, is a fraction of what's in typical disposable consumer goods. I guarantee you've already thrown out more plastic in the last week than is in a whole ten pack of those glasses.

Meanwhile, events like this are a great way to remind people of the natural world we live in and how miniscule our experience of it is relative to the enormity of even just our solar system.

The focus on drama over logic completely shallows out the allegory until it's JUST a gay couple being contemporarily gay on screen

Yeah. That's my point.

Maybe there is no allegory.

Maybe it's just a gay couple on screen.

Like Nichelle as Uhura was just a black woman in an elevated position on screen.

No message. Just simple representation.

Why is that such a problem?

Because if you ask people in the community, many will tell you they're kinda sick of the gay experience only be represented in a negative light, always a struggle, always a message, as opposed to just them simply and comfortably existing.

So, putting a gay couple on screen and just having it be a normal aspect of who they are (to be clear: the nature of their relationship was never a plot point on the show) is "blandly doing the cultural issues"?

Was casually putting Uhura, a black woman, on the bridge of a starship on a show airing in the 1960s, without ever calling attention to her race, also "blandly doing the cultural issues"?

I agree with your premise, but obviously you meant Kevin Riley and just got confused...

Ah, see, I'm Canadian so that only works like two months out of the year when we're able to emerge from our igloos...

They could just as easily close ranks with support for Bibi galvanizing over perceived foreign influence in their politics. Nationalism is a powerful narcotic and the US making that move could just pump it into their veins.

Or burned out because they get pulled into every project that's gone off the rails.

Sure, but one disadvantage is they're harder to stack.

Times like this I'm glad I have not one but two friends who are backyard beekeepers. They are more than happy to give away the enormous amount of honey they collect each year...