They All Look Alike To Me

Diversity in casting on Fox has officially dropped to zero, and it’s not much better on other networks.

All the adult  white men look alike to me. It’s so extreme that I can’t follow the story line on some shows, because I can’t tell the white male characters apart. They all have the same facial structure, the same haircut, the same five o’clock shadow. Usually wardrobe doesn’t differ enough to be helpful. Glasses help, but they’re rare.

It’s patently ridiculous. This is what happens when intelligence and intuition are put on the back burner in favor of focus groups.

“Sir, our focus group data tells us that women between the ages of 14 and 25 would prefer it if all male roles were played by the same hunky 27 year-old with short brown hair, bed head, and a five o’clock shadow.”

“Great! Let’s go with that.”

Meanwhile, I can’t follow a show I’m not already familiar with, because I can’t tell the male actors apart.

People often say “seventies boobs looked different.” Now you know why. The reason you never saw A cups with small nipples in the seventies isn’t because there weren’t any. It’s just that you weren’t going to get a job as the babysitter in “Friday the 13th” if that’s what you were rocking.