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<blockquote data-quote="rayray" data-source="post: 441082" data-attributes="member: 132">(Flashback: In Fallon&#039;s rape storyline, it was all in her imagination! Which was painful and ridiculous during a time when women were beginning to get traction on safety and assault issues. They wouldn&#039;t mention race in Dominique&#039;s storyline even though that was the obvious reason why the other cast members rejected her, doubted her, didn&#039;t like or feel safe with her, or were threatened by her mere presence in any given space.) Given that the show&#039;s previous &quot;attempts&quot; (in profoundly inverted commas) to deal with controversial topics like rape (Krystle, Fallon) and racism + mixed race parentage (Dominique), where they bungled each in ways that were patently ridiculous back then, it wasn&#039;t surprising AT ALL that they had two central characters opposing each other in a political race without identifying a single substantive issue where Blake and Alexis differed. &nbsp;Instead they debated The Environment! Women and Stuff! They wouldn&#039;t even identify a fictional party either belonged to. I was amazed at the time that they couldn&#039;t invent a fictional political party for each, the way they would routinely invent African or Latin American country names.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rayray, post: 441082, member: 132"] (Flashback: In Fallon's rape storyline, it was all in her imagination! Which was painful and ridiculous during a time when women were beginning to get traction on safety and assault issues. They wouldn't mention race in Dominique's storyline even though that was the obvious reason why the other cast members rejected her, doubted her, didn't like or feel safe with her, or were threatened by her mere presence in any given space.) Given that the show's previous "attempts" (in profoundly inverted commas) to deal with controversial topics like rape (Krystle, Fallon) and racism + mixed race parentage (Dominique), where they bungled each in ways that were patently ridiculous back then, it wasn't surprising AT ALL that they had two central characters opposing each other in a political race without identifying a single substantive issue where Blake and Alexis differed. Instead they debated The Environment! Women and Stuff! They wouldn't even identify a fictional party either belonged to. I was amazed at the time that they couldn't invent a fictional political party for each, the way they would routinely invent African or Latin American country names. [/QUOTE]

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