Hm. I wonder why so many white people are pressed about Adam & Eve being Black?
And why are so many men are pressed about God being represented as a woman?
I saw Neil Gaiman speak a few weeks ago, and he talked about this exact thing. It was really interesting listening to him say (paraphrasing) “We did that on purpose so that the wrong people for the show would turn it off. If Adam and Eve being blacm offends them, the show isn’t for them, and the rest of the show is only going to offend them more.” Really interesting choice, and it looks like It’s working just as planned!
For real though, It’s better that the bigots bail in the first five minutes. Can you imagine if they watched all of it and realized how subversive the plot is? How it turns most religious beliefs on their heads and is gay to boot? Chaos and never ending white rage. I’m glad we don’t have to deal with that.
Part of me wishes they’d turn it off and NOT complain, though…
The rest of me likes knowing who to block, because if they thought “Adam and Eve were black” and “God is a woman” were too much SJW diversity for them, I don’t want to find out how they’d feel about my neurodivergent queer genderfluid self! XD
Remember the time somebody on Tumblr sent Neil Gaiman a message being like “You shouldn’t be friendly with Stephen Fry because Fry is Jewish and those people can’t be trusted” and NG had to be like “Well, this is awkward, but the thing is I’m a fully-paid-up honest-to-goodness barmitzvahed-and-circumcised Jew myself, so…”
