gamingcirclejerk

Is it a period piece or not? The script for Alien was cast with no regards sex or race. It's a good example of what I refer to as Casual Feminism, where the plot has nothing to do with feminism, but normalizes strong female characters. In contrast, Wonder Women does not normalize strong women because she's not normal.

If you're doing a period piece where inequality is well recorded as being the norm, then there would be care taken to accurately representing that. You can have characters who disagree with that norm, but they should be represented as an exception. The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson had a lot of good examples of that. Daniel Waterhouse definitely did not agree with slavery, but was powerless to do anything about it.