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Message: <blockquote data-quote="madelf" data-source="post: 2740684" data-attributes="member: 15415">I think I understand where you're coming from, but I believe you might have missed my point.It's absolutely true that minorities & women were not treated very well in the period that pulp originated. But that outlook colored all media of the time, not just pulp. The world has come a long way (though it admittedly has a ways to go yet) in the area of equality since then. And pulp has been along for the ride.Saying that the entire pulp genre (as it exists today) is racist, because of the way it was written in 1930, is as foolish as saying that coming-of-age stories written today are racist because of the way Tom Sawyer was written. It just doesn't hold up. Pulp, as a genre, is not racist just because it originated in a racist time. All genres of writing suffered from racism in those times, and they're all still legitimate genres apart from that. Pulp adventure is no different.There is absolutely no reason that someone can't use all of the meaningful tropes of the pulp adventure genre, and do so in a completely non-discriminatory manner. (naturally all IMO)</blockquote>