thebigblackwolfe:
girljanitor:
lestradehasthephonebox:
girljanitor:
awaitingoursecond:
knittedlampshade:
remember that time that lavender brown was cast as a black actress but then when she actually had a fucking role in the plot of the movies she became a white actress
lol but racism isn’t a thing anymore, or something
I doubt the film makers got rid of the black actress because of racism. I don’t think they realized how important her role would be later in the movies, so it’s possible that the original Lavender Brown actress had little talent- thus hiring a new actress.
Assuming a black actress was less talented
YEAH THAT’S TOTES NOT RACIST
“I DON’T THINK RACISM EXISTS I JUST ASSUME BLACK PEOPLE ARE LESS TALENTED THAN WHITE PEOPLE”
WHY DON’T YOU CRAWL INTO A DITCH
STAY THERE A WHILE
THINK ABOUT YOUR DITCH LIFE
THINK ABOUT YOUR DITCH CHOICES
DID THEY FUCKING SAY SHE WAS LESS TALENTED BECAUSE SHE WAS BLACK
DID THEY
NO
THAT’S LIKE SAYING PEOPLE WHO THINK KRISTEN STEWART IS A BAD ACTOR ONLY THINK THAT BECAUSE SHE’S WHITE
THE GIRL WHO PLAYED LAVENDER BROWN MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN THE BEST ACTOR
ALRIGHT? SHE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN A GOOD ACTOR IF SHE HAD BEEN CAST WHITE IN THE FIRST PLACE. HOLY SHIT. STOP SAYING PEOPLE ARE RACIST WHEN THEY’RE NOT FUCKING RACIST.
YOU’RE RIGHT OMG IT’S NOT LIKE THIS CONVERSATION EXISTS IN THE WORLD, Y’KNOW, LIKE CONTEXT OR SMTHN RITE????
IT’S NOT LIKE WHITE PEOPLE ARE OVER-CASTED IN MOVIES
I MEAN IT’S NOT LIKE 46% OF ROLES THAT DON’T SPECIFY WHITE ACTORS GO TO WHITE ACTORS BY FUCKING MAGIC
IT’S NOT LIKE THEY CONSTANTLY CAST WHITE ACTORS IN ROLES THAT WERE ORIGINALLY POC
YES EVERYTHING YOU’RE SAYING EXISTS IN A VACUUM WHERE YOU CAN BUILD YOUR FUCKING FALLACIES ON THE HOUSE OF CARDS CALLED “BUT WE’RE ALL EQUAL NOW”
INSTEAD OF THIS WORLD WHERE WE ALL LIVE CALLED REALITY:
GO BACK TO DITCH WORLD AND ROLL AROUND WITH YOUR FELLOW DITCH PEOPLE
another day, another white child popping at the mouth about shit they don’t even understand.
go play with your lego blocks boo boo.
also i never knew i needed those figures until today (holy fuck 0% for NA actors?)
Yeah, not gonna lie it really fucking sucks.
That’s why Q’Orianka Kilcher will always be my Katniss
sunreon:
girljanitor:
eshusplayground:
neustrasbourg:
eshusplayground:
If it takes a fictional account of an alternate reality where men, white people, and/or straight people are persecuted in order to empathize with the suffering that sexism, racism, and homophobia inflicts, you got some serious self-examination to do.
Actually, that’s pretty much how people work. Empathy is something that needs to be learned. You can’t really expect anyone to relate to suffering if they haven’t experienced a form of suffering themselves or don’t see how it could be them suffering if the tables were turned.
Bullshit.
No, really. That’s bullshit. There was a study.
IGNORE!
While reading fiction is shown to improve empathy, “flipping the script” is unnecessary.
For additional context, consider that readers found it quite easy to identify with/as vampires and wizards, but empathy for people of color is somehow too much to ask???
I call double bullshit.
One of my close people tried to pull that bullshit on me. “I just can’t care if I haven’t experienced a relatable situation.”
Can’t, or won’t.
Today’s theme is, “understanding is overrated and basic sympathy for those who suffer is nowhere to be found”
must be a day that ends in Y
eshusplayground:
neustrasbourg:
eshusplayground:
If it takes a fictional account of an alternate reality where men, white people, and/or straight people are persecuted in order to empathize with the suffering that sexism, racism, and homophobia inflicts, you got some serious self-examination to do.
Actually, that’s pretty much how people work. Empathy is something that needs to be learned. You can’t really expect anyone to relate to suffering if they haven’t experienced a form of suffering themselves or don’t see how it could be them suffering if the tables were turned.
Bullshit.
No, really. That’s bullshit. There was a study.
IGNORE!
While reading fiction is shown to improve empathy, “flipping the script” is unnecessary.
For additional context, consider that readers found it quite easy to identify with/as vampires and wizards, but empathy for people of color is somehow too much to ask???
I call double bullshit.
(via witchsistah)
"
During the act of reading engaging fiction, we can lose all sense of time. By the final chapter of the right book, we feel changed in our own lives, even if what we’ve read is entirely made up.
Research says that’s because while you’re engaged in fiction—unlike nonfiction—you’re given a safe arena to experience emotions without the need for self-protection. Since the events you’re reading about do not follow you into your own life, you can feel strong emotions freely.
[…]
The key metric the researchers used is “emotionally transported,” or how deeply connected we are to the story. Previous research has shown that when we read stories about people experiencing specific emotions or events it triggers activity in our brains as if we were right there in the thick of the action.
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New study by Dutch researchers confirms previous theories that reading fiction makes you a better person by expanding your capacity for empathy.
Also see how storytelling makes us human.
(via explore-blog)
PLEASE NOTE HOW THIS TIES INTO THE ISSUE OF MEDIA REPRESENTATION AND/OR THE LACK OF IT FOR MANY OF US.
(Source: , via eshusplayground)
girljanitor:
deleuzingmymind:
“Somebody told a real life woman that her skin was too brown to play an imaginary creature. That basically in the whole fictional world of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, where you have dragons and trolls and talking trees, where you draw the line, where imagination is capped out, no more room, is for a brown hobbit. Like firery eyeball thing, no problem but don’t even try to imagine a Samoan elf. That shit will blow your mind.”
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Wyatt Cenac [x] (via modernmonkeys)
i love me some wyatt cenac
(via kickdrumheart)
forever reblog, because somehow it’s never not relevant.
(via shadesoffantasy)
Hey fantasy nerds, guess what! LOTR and hell most of the fantasy genre is white as fuck; Get over yourselves
BREAKING NEWS: The fantasy genre, one which I love and have been a fan of for 25+ years, is white as fuck, YOU GUYS!!!!!
WHICH THING SHOULD I DO?????????
1. Give my undying support to all fantasy writers who include people of color and even MORE to fantasy authors of color and promote them heavily on my blog accompanied by detailed reviews and links to sample chapters;
call out racism in the fandom and fight for my right to like the things i like without being subjected to racist harassment;
Use money from my own pockets to help fund POC authors, writers, filmmakers, and creators of all kinds;
Reach out to other fans of fantasy who are people of color and talk about stuff we like and the way the whiteness of the genre has affected us;
Make my own fan art and reblog/promote other people’s fan art of characters of color;
post critical reviews of various works, point out how whitewashed fantasy art covers have been in the past and still are to this day;
Follow blogs dedicated to people of color in fantasy fiction and art;
Write detailed accounts of how the whiteness of the fantasy genre directly affected my self image, self-esteem, and my physical health ;
celebrate every piece of fantasy writing and fantasy artwork that features people of color;
or
2. “get over myself”
unpublishable fanmail is super effective
