musesfool has a great post up about
SPN's current race and gender issues (spoilers for "Jus In Bello"), and my first comment was basically, "
Please tell me you're printing this out and sending it to the PTB. PLEASE."
I touched on this the other day and now I'm actually getting out paper and pen myself to do it for
Supernatural. I know I sound sometimes like I don't think the misogynistic and racial undertones on the show are a problem, but I think I'm really just frustrated because I'm pretty sure you and me and everybody else in fandom sitting around in a circle in the corner and expressing our concerns about it won't do anything to
change it. (Well, that, and between that and the media coverage of the presidential election I have bouts of fierce agreement about how much misogyny and racism suck in between tantrums where I stick my fingers in my ears and stomp off to the corner to play with my Legos so I don't have to hear about it ALL THE TIME.) I highly doubt the PTB are taking the time out of their busy schedules to dig past the morons on the TWoP boards and the mental giants who must be all over the CW site to come over to LJ and lurk on our well-written posts on the treatment of women and African-Americans on
Supernatural. Hell, if they did, things probably would have changed by now.
You've got to figure that we're at a really good point in the filming schedule right now thanks to the writers' strike, a point where we might be able to send them our complaints and be heard in time to do something about it before the season's over. I mean, hell, we can do it to send them a bunch of postcards but we can't do it to tell them we're worried about how they write their female and black characters?
So, yeah. I'm off to go find an address. And then write a letter. And then buy a stamp.