Gladiators’ not-so-subtle racial sterotyping
I know I’m old enough not to care, but I think I detect a pattern in the names of the new Gladiators:
White men: named after mythology and the Olympic ideal; Atlas, Spartan.
Black men: named after powerful negative forces; Destroyer, Predator.
White women: cool & passive: Ice, Enigma.
Black woman: named after a black jungle cat: Panther.
And the token Scot: Battleaxe.
Sky must have put a lot of effort into those.
April 12, 2008 No Comments