>>Ben, you realize that the Galactic Church of Man has duplicated the
>>alien classifications in Teenagers from Outer Space.
>
>Funny, I don't remember corresponding levels of social stigma in
>TFOS.
>
>--G.

In general, there weren't such levels. In TFOS, social stigma had more to do with the type of spacecraft you piloted rather than your number of arms and/or pseudopods. I'm saying that the CoM and TFOS had the same classifications, not the same applications of those classifications.

I and the KKK both classify people in terms of skin color; if you ask me for a physical description of somebody, I'm likely to start with that skin color. It's the first thing I notice, just because color is a strong visual cue. The difference between myself and the KKK is that I don't associate that skin color with other things such as intelligence and right to live unmolested. The Klan does.

--rR