Passages

I totally agree with your sentiments here. Why are men human beings with varied roles and stories, but women can only serve for romance or to be saved by male characters? Remember back when Good female characters running from danger invariably tripped and had to be saved/helped by a male character? At least that doesn't happen with any regularity anymore. Sheesh.

My mind isn't currently in the right mode to think up interesting types of stories, but in terms of movies already done, how about Driving Miss Daisy? Old woman, minority man, and a friendship story, not a romance, but it was great, and everyone loved it. Of course, this is just the type of movie stereotyped movie execs (and that needs to be qualified as male move execs) wouldn't give a chance to anymore. It's like the way TV has gone. Nobody wants to take a chance on anything thew; they only want to hand out more of what's already selling, which is a recipe for creative starvation (both on the producing and consuming ends.) What network these days would give something like XF a chance?

Okay, enough grousing for me. Time to switch gears before I lose my creative flow. I'm actually in the middle of starting to write something, and the title has something to do with the word 'yellow'. =:^o