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Originally Posted by kyrilson
Those people were complete idiots. Seriously. You really should find some examples in Baen novels to cite for them. There are some very strong female characters in the Baen universe, as well as minorities, and even alien characters that would probably be considered minorities in those stories.
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I wouldn't say they were idiots. I remember being the age of most of them and seeing the world in black and white. At my current age, it seems to have muted to shades of gray. Never trust anyone over thirty sounds good until you turn thirty.
We did have a discussion and I threw in some examples. For the most part, it almost seemed that if a person's gender/racial extraction/whatever is not being mentioned every second page as though it was the most important item about them, it was being trivialized. For instance, in the Honorverse stories, it is occasionally mentioned the House of Winton is dark skinned (I tend to wonder if given that the House of Winton's heir to the throne had to marry a commoner, that trait had not been made a genetic dominant). It's not a deep dark secret but neither is it more than a bit of background information. About as important as the Manticoran Navy uniform including berets.