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Did anyone else watch both Discovery and The Orville female baby episode? I’d like to discuss. My feeling is both shows ended up in “when you let cis white men do all the writing territory” but somehow I find Orville’s handling less infuriating?
* ... all the writing” territory*
Both shows try to address trans issues, kind of: Discovery by using transracialism (hey Dolezal) and Orville by having a species where a (socially assigned) female sex baby is an anomaly
Both shows try to address trans issues, kind of: Discovery by using transracialism (hey Dolezal) and Orville by having a species where a (socially assigned) female sex baby is an anomaly
What I find interesting about the Orville’s take and what isn’t addressed in any of the critiques I read is the complication of colonialism: can these humans tell another species how to handle their gender business? I actually appreciated this aspect of the narrative.
