This has probably been discussed before, and if so, feel free to modslap me (I'm new!), but does anyone find that vegetarians on TV (the characters, not their actors), tend to come off very stereotyped?
As you can tell from my avatar, I'm a Sara Sidle fan (CSI). And while I know that Jorja Fox is an adament vegetarian, it seems as though Sara is always rather extreme about it around other people. Maybe it's just me, but I don't make other people pack away their hamburger just because it's upsetting to me. Though I don't find the sight of raw meat disgusting, I just choose not to eat it.
I assume that was the writer's choice rather than the actress's, but still.
It seems that vegetarians on TV are either the beatnick variety, whose clothes are made of nothing but hemp and string, or they're forcing it on other people.
I think Sara's a good example of someone who doesn't go too far with it, but I was watching my sister's cartoon show "The Weekenders", and I found that although it was nice that one of their characters is a childhood veg, she was still sort of "pushing" it on the others.
Do you think there's a natural tendency to make vegetarians very one-sided in shows, can you think of any positive vegetarian characters, or is this really what the majority act like?
As you can tell from my avatar, I'm a Sara Sidle fan (CSI). And while I know that Jorja Fox is an adament vegetarian, it seems as though Sara is always rather extreme about it around other people. Maybe it's just me, but I don't make other people pack away their hamburger just because it's upsetting to me. Though I don't find the sight of raw meat disgusting, I just choose not to eat it.
I assume that was the writer's choice rather than the actress's, but still.
It seems that vegetarians on TV are either the beatnick variety, whose clothes are made of nothing but hemp and string, or they're forcing it on other people.
I think Sara's a good example of someone who doesn't go too far with it, but I was watching my sister's cartoon show "The Weekenders", and I found that although it was nice that one of their characters is a childhood veg, she was still sort of "pushing" it on the others.
Do you think there's a natural tendency to make vegetarians very one-sided in shows, can you think of any positive vegetarian characters, or is this really what the majority act like?