meanwhile, if you (or anyone) registers with the blog, you get unlimited time limit to edit your comments. (until someone replies).

Now I know that you already tackled multiple dimensions of the “Boomer” character in “No Cylons Served Here” but I like to recap to see if I understood your points:

As an Asian-American and a non-white she fulfills the sexual roles of :

Seducer
Lover
Victim
Betrayer
Whore/Prostitute
Breeder

I think it is in this last role that the multiplicity of Sharons can be easily seen. We all know the old canards about minorities (and the poor when race is switch for class and back again, nobody complains about large affluent/racial dominant families, now do they?). One of them is their ability to reproduce rapidly. This shows a host of negative traits; carelessness, ignorance, uncontrolled sexual appetite among others. Also the “fact” that “outbreed” the dominant population (calling Doctors Beck, Doctor Carlson, Dr. O’Reilly) is often sited as a threat to the dominant population (just see recent coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict).

The breeder also leads to the erasing of ethnic lines. The baby is a hybrid, thus crossing the lines between one group and another making the distinctions harder to make as they do not clearly apply to this child. It also tends to “pollute” the purity of the dominant group by introducing tainted blood (said blood which saved the President).

Yet the irony is that one of the planks of the so called pro-life movement is that so called “abortionist” are closet eugenicist bent on eradicating the lesser races, such as blacks. Although this has happened, the vast majority of victims of eugenics in the U.S. and other countries have been members of the dominant racial but of a lower class/social order who where considered mentally deficient.

The work around here for this seemingly intractable problem is to take the child away from her parents and place her with foster parents of the dominant group so as to erase all cultural ties with her parents culture (the Angelina/Madonna effect).

That is all I have to say for now.

Well, one more thing…. I would love to read your review of my current project when I have at least a finished first draft. It would be interesting to see it dissected along racial/cultural/sexual role lines.

Later….