I stopped watching Heroes after the second season, but if you differ from me in this regard then you may find this image over at SocImages interesting.
On a related note, I wrote about gender and race in Heroes a bit over a year ago here. That site isn't monitored anymore, so if you have any comments on that piece, please leave them here.
A further caution: my views on the topics discussed have changed in the year since that piece was written -- I think I would probably be far less forgiving were I to write it now -- but the general claims made therein still seem sound.
Now that I think about it, I never did end up watching Heroes again after writing that post. The letter to Tim Kring accompanying the image at Racialicious seems to indicate that things have not improved since then.
UPDATE 02/12/09: Reading my old post at RBF more carefully reveals some pretty fucking awful ablist language. I considered taking this post down when I realized this, but I'm going to leave it up for now as a testament to my mistakes. Certainly I don't think I had anywhere near my current (admittedly still not good enough) level of awareness of ableism when I wrote the piece last year. I apologize for that part of the post -- I fucked up.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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I count myself lucky when I am confronted with images of myself from the past that make me uncomfortable now. It means that all these years have earned me something worth keeping in the wisdom department.
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