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<blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 7727217">While I can agree that it is noble for artists to be inclusive in a positive way...such as the delightful 1-second nod to LGBT families in &quot;Frozen&quot;...I can't accept the inverse: that it is somehow not acceptable to do so.&nbsp; While multi-cultural acceptance is a good thing, it is not the only good thing, and I don't expect artists (even blatantly commercial ones) to fight for every progressive goal.If Tolkien had been more culturally inclusive, for which of his other progressive failings would we (by which I mean &quot;you&quot;) be criticizing him?&nbsp; My guess is that it would be a suggestion that somehow Harad == Middle East and therefore Tolkien was an Islamaphobe.&nbsp; Or maybe that Ungoliant and Shelob were both female.&nbsp; Surely we can mine that literary decision for misogynous intention. [video=youtube;joabBacXzdA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joabBacXzdA[/video]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guest 6801328, post: 7727217"] While I can agree that it is noble for artists to be inclusive in a positive way...such as the delightful 1-second nod to LGBT families in "Frozen"...I can't accept the inverse: that it is somehow not acceptable to do so. While multi-cultural acceptance is a good thing, it is not the only good thing, and I don't expect artists (even blatantly commercial ones) to fight for every progressive goal. If Tolkien had been more culturally inclusive, for which of his other progressive failings would we (by which I mean "you") be criticizing him? My guess is that it would be a suggestion that somehow Harad == Middle East and therefore Tolkien was an Islamaphobe. Or maybe that Ungoliant and Shelob were both female. Surely we can mine [I]that[/I] literary decision for misogynous intention. [video=youtube;joabBacXzdA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joabBacXzdA[/video] [/QUOTE]

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