Poll Day - Should Stories Be a Forum For Personal Crusades?

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I missed the last Thursday of the month, but with Easter goings on and Easter Eggs on mfuwss we'll just take today as a make-up day.
So here's the question, for both writer and reader as usual.
[Poll #1905733][Poll #1905733]

Comments

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

I didn't answer this because I wasn't evne sure how. MFU stories are generally set in the 1960s. I was a teenager then and though I've always identified as a liberal democrat, other than Vietnam, I didn't have any real causes in that period.

I do have philosophical positions however, and they pretty much match the series. That is, Thrush is about self-centered power [Ayn Rand could have probably belonged] while UNCLE is about world peace and diversity and liberal democratic and socialist institutions cooperating together.

And Illya is definitely a Soviet and not evil.

Also, April is probably early equal opportunity advancement but that's not because I'm feminist.

I don't want to see Solo or Kuryakin racist or more sexist than one might expect in that period, and their heroism, to me, pretty much calls for compassion and an open mind.

Other from that, I don't know how many soapboxes one might drag in.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

It's not so much checking a box here as thinking about how we view things. The ensuing conversations are what make it interesting. I don't think we can ever limit how we view things to a simple one or two answers in a poll, but they do get the ball rolling.