Where are your women?

Check that. Where are your women who look closer to the undesirable version of the racial spectrum, but who are just as competent, just as capable and just as curious as the souped up versions that are presented?

We've been treated to lots of stories heroes and heroines saving the world, making a difference and having fun on the internet, the big screen and the small screen. I rarely see people who look like the kind of woman I physically became in those stories. I usually see them as victims, as dimwitted, unimaginative, non progressive people, as an archetype who is a 'magical negro' or who has 'the ancient Chinese secret,' but not leading a full live that has ups and downs and highs and lows except as some sort of 'afterschool special'.

I reflect on the current crop of medical dramas and again notice that women of color as doctors, as supervisors, as specialists are missing in large numbers. I was thinking about 'Grey's Anatomy,' which does have women of color as a part of the writing staff, but none as attendings in the show's hospital staff. Make no mistake-Miranda Bailey may huff and puff, but she and Callie are HNIC and HMIC respectively.

Sci-fi, action and fantasy makes you want to cry because of the dearth. Even if a woman of dark color is presented, she rarely is in on the action and she lives in a vacuum. She's married and/or is a mother and is remote.

Of course, I can write my own stories...but will they ever be read?

Paranormal, Feb 27-Mar 7 at the Factory Theater

Paranormal

a Sci-fi Comedy

February 27-March 7

The Factory Theater

791 Tremont Street

Boston MA

8pm

"I am K'Tharr, a Grulark Warrior-Bunny from the planet Trepmalthok, and I would give my life to defend you!"

With those words from a six-feet tall bunny-shaped alien, Krista Maclay, burgeoning psychic, is thrown on a journey beyond the human world in which she meets Elvis-impersonating aliens, invisible annoying bodyswappers, a moody yet endearing psychic boy, and a long-dead former best friend who forces her into an epic psychic battle for free will.

"Paranormal" is a sci-fi comic fantasy juggernaut for everyone who doesn't see why someone couldn't be a zombie, a pirate, and a telepath at the same time.Featuring Laura DeCesare, Timothy Hoover, Neal Leaheey, Crystal Lisbon, and Nick Zendzian. Sound design by Neil Marsh. Written and Directed by Carl Danielson.

For tickets, call (866) 811-4111 or go to "Paranormal" at TheaterMania:
http://www.theatermania.com/boston/shows/paranormal_151611/

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The Invaders

"The Invaders" was a 1960s tv show that starred Roy Thinnes and had to do with aliens that invaded the Earth but that were hidden amongst us. Roy's character was one of the few that understood what was going on and waged a one man crusade against it.

I was not alive during its original run. I did watch it as a block of Sunday afternoon programming that the local station Channel 68 had. The block included "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," "The Rookies" and "Charlie's Angels." I thought the pairing of the last two were interesting since "The Rookies" was Kate Jackson's first tv series and "Charlie's Angels" was the series that followed.

At any rate, "The Invaders" has a fan site: http://www.theinvaders.co.uk/.