Hi, I think your post is great and I don't follow television very closely, so if I miss some key shows in the following response, feel free to let me know. But I have a question/point about genre; namely, does your post take it into account?

I know there are great shows out there about women/characters of color/disabled characters/etc. But let's say, hypothetically, that I'm only interested in sci-fi. Are there sci-fi shows out there with these kinds of people as the lead, or does sci-fi only ever star white men? Is it not okay for me to express my desire for greater diversity within this genre? You can say that I shouldn't limit myself to only sci-fi, but that's side-stepping the issue.

Actual example now: I love heists. Heist shows, heist movies, heist books. Love them. Ocean's Eleven, The Italian Job, Hustle, the Gentlemen Bastard series. I can't get enough of them. But damnit, I can't name a single one with a female lead, and I would really, really, really like to see that.

I don't think that the diversity currently shown in television is evenly distributed across the board, and there's no reason we shouldn't want to see it in every genre. It should be in every genre, in every show. That said, I am as previously mentioned not very TV-savvy, so if you'd like to debunk this with examples, I'd be super interested in watching them!