What about the use of the term 'non-human', which was used up above in one of the threads? I think that makes it fairly clear what the first mention of this viewpoint was implying, and that's that the use of dreadlocks is something that only 'non-humans' do.
The fact that you associate dreadlocks with 'nonhuman' and 'otherness' is not a good thing, and I don't particularly think that your defense that pointing it out to you isn't going to do any good holds any water. Why? Because the first point that was raised here was that a point of view on the part of a watcher of the show was offensive, not that the use of dreadlocks by the show itself is offensive. Now, the more I think about that particular fact, the more I have objections to it, but that still wasn't the original point.
Right now I really am getting the impression that you are deflecting any discussion about this - changing the focus to the fact that networks are using dreadlocks on alien characters, rather than answering to the fact that someone on your journal stated that they made Ronon more non-human, and you didn't disagree.
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Date: 2008-06-18 12:32 am (UTC)The fact that you associate dreadlocks with 'nonhuman' and 'otherness' is not a good thing, and I don't particularly think that your defense that pointing it out to you isn't going to do any good holds any water. Why? Because the first point that was raised here was that a point of view on the part of a watcher of the show was offensive, not that the use of dreadlocks by the show itself is offensive. Now, the more I think about that particular fact, the more I have objections to it, but that still wasn't the original point.
Right now I really am getting the impression that you are deflecting any discussion about this - changing the focus to the fact that networks are using dreadlocks on alien characters, rather than answering to the fact that someone on your journal stated that they made Ronon more non-human, and you didn't disagree.