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Flipped / Switched
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by Chris Buck.
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If you're not too tired of recalling the horrible panel yet and don't mind answering, what was the stuff making fun of Asian women? And thank you for standing up for us.
when the main character gets dumped she says “fine now go date some Asian girl!” and later she calls out these guys for being sexist and says something along the lines of “am I not skinny enough? am I not Asian enough?”
the producer & moderator tried to explain it as a “critique” on the fetishization of Asian women, but it came off as “Asian women are beneath me, why do you want them instead of me?”
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i’m so glad Modern Family touched on how white gays can still be racist even if they love someone who’s a PoC and in this case, she’s their daughter
Damn, she just put the “cutthroat” in cutthroat kitchen.
Get him!
OOOOOHHH
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I literally hate Orientalist paintings because they’re so racist to African/Asian cultures but they’re so well done but they’re racist as hell??? Like as a Palestinian artist my artist side is like “paint look good” but then the ghost of Edward Said be beating the fuck out of me
Oh god, for real. I love this post so much.
A lot of big name animation studios love studying the ‘golden age of illustration’ and romantic/orientalist paintings from this era.
So, I too have to drag myself through many of these and if you’re enrolled in any digital online painting course you’ll have to use many of these as 'homework goals’
Another better goal: 'STEAL’ THE TECHNIQUE
DISMANTLE THE IDEA AND AESTHETIC
BUILD AND/OR REBUILD YOUR WORLD FROM YOUR GAZE NOT THEIRS
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I have something to say about peoples comments about Lupita Nyong’os role in The Force Awakens.
1. I think the most glaring thing about this movie is how much the talk around this movie was about having the three younger leads be a Black man, and Latino man, and a white woman theres some people of color in the background and some “blink an you’ll miss it” moments with women of color. That’s a problem. Women aren’t interchangeable. People of color aren’t interchangeable. It’s bullshit that the progressive movements of white women get associated with all women everywhere. There should be more women of color in these movie franchises that aren’t cgi or covered in body paint. Because so far in every Star Wars trilogy theres one Black women in body paint or cgi and very few on screen (Femi Taylor as Jabbas slave OOla, Mary Oyaya played Luminare Unduli, Lupita Nyong’o played Maz Kanata).
2. It’s not for me or any of you to decide that Lupita got fucked over for this role. It’s not for any of us to say that “she deserves better” because we don’t know what she wanted. We don’t know the circumstances around her taking this role. Yeah, I would rather see her on screen for 2 hours killin it with a light saber and being the chosen one. But I also know filming these epic franchise take a lot out of you. I know that being a main character and being a supporting cgi character is the different between filming for 9 months in 8 locations, 7 months on a sound stage, 4 months in font of green screen, and 2 months dubbing audio AND 3 months doing cgi motion capture. And its also the difference between being locked down for the next 6 years or more and doing a star wars movie every two years and have the freedom to do other shit. If in the next year or so we hear something different from Lupita or anyone behind the scenes then we can say she got fucked over. Do I like that she’s playing a walking fried plantain in this movie? No. But she did a fantastic job and seems to be incredibly excited to be a part of this. Maybe shes carrying around little Thunder in her instagram pics because shes overcompensating or making the best of a bad situation? But we don’t know that. All we know is that she’s in it. I’m not going to sit here and act like Black Actresses have such a great history with Hollywood. But if I was writing for a tv show I loved and a bunch of people who called themselves my fans were saying I got fucked over and I deserved more I would feel really weird about the entire situation.
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She said in an interview that she wanted a CGI role
“12 Years a Slave was a film that was so much about my body, and Star Wars is not at all. There was a liberation in being able to play in a medium where my body was not the thing in question,” Nyong’o told BuzzFeed News. “The acting challenge I was looking for was completely different, a complete departure from 12 Years a Slave.”
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There we go. ^
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Why the fuck isn’t Lupita everywhere? Why the fuck isn’t her imdb page filled with oncoming projects and instead she has like 1 voice job in the next year?
Alicia Vikander, Rooney Mara, Jennifer Lawrece and any other white woman makes one half decent movie and suddenly they’re fucking everywhere, they are rumored for every role ever and have like 5 movies per year for the next 5 years yet Lupita won a fucking Oscar and since then all we’ve seen of her is a 5 seconds part as a flight attendant in Non Stop and her voice in an weird alien in star wars
Why isn’t she being flooded with roles, starring in blockbusters as the action star or love interest or being worshipped in romantic comedies… why why why!?
That is how it is for black actress. That or they turn shit down, because they’re not being offered quality roles.
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She’s also darkskinned. So even within hiring pools for black actresses colorism is a factor that would prompt someone to choose a lighter black actress.
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Being involved in fandom is truly an education in insidious racism and microaggressions. If there’s one thing fandom doesn’t lack, it’s the abundance of coded language.
People will do prize-winning mental gymnastics to justify not liking characters of colour and/or eliminating them as love interests. We’re literally witnessing the evolution of the racist, because as long as you’re not saying the n-word, you’re not doing anything bigoted by simply stating your personal preference. As long as you’re not spewing outright hatred, your racial biases can’t possibly be influencing your perception of characters of colour as undesirable protagonists. The way some of you have learned to adapt social justice concepts and the struggles of oppressed people to finesse racism is fascinating.
“I don’t ship Rey with Finn because he held her hand and she obviously hates physical contact. He did it again even though she told him not to, so that’s a violation of her personhood. On the flip side, the other guy (who tried to kill her and her friends) respects her because at least he didn’t try to hold her hand.”
“Black Hermione was fine when she was confined to fanon, but now that she’s canon, you’re oppressing white people by erasing their beloved white Hermione and this violation is totally comparable to whitewashing female characters of colour (who only get to be leads about 2% of the time and are already operating at a large deficit).”
The level of bullshittery is inspiring, really.
#isms#klandom#long post#TBH#have you seen what people do with Abbie Mills from Sleepy Hollow#and in Flash#etc etc#its tiring weve seen it all before#or like Hamilton#Pacific Rim as well#Star Wars disforce#like these characters' friendships and comradery is important but TBH some of yalls posts in the tags are The Same Shit
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Here’s my life. My husband and I get up each morning at 7 o’clock and he showers while I make coffee. By the time he’s dressed I’m already sitting at my desk writing. He kisses me goodbye then leaves for the job where he makes good money, draws excellent benefits and gets many perks, such as travel, catered lunches and full reimbursement for the gym where I attend yoga midday. His career has allowed me to work only sporadically, as a consultant, in a field I enjoy.
All that disclosure is crass, I know. I’m sorry. Because in this world where women will sit around discussing the various topiary shapes of their bikini waxes, the conversation about money (or privilege) is the one we never have. Why? I think it’s the Marie Antoinette syndrome: Those with privilege and luck don’t want the riffraff knowing the details. After all, if “those people” understood the differences in our lives, they might revolt. Or, God forbid, not see us as somehow more special, talented and/or deserving than them.
There’s a special version of this masquerade that we writers put on. Two examples:
I attended a packed reading (I’m talking 300+ people) about a year and a half ago. The author was very well-known, a magnificent nonfictionist who has, deservedly, won several big awards. He also happens to be the heir to a mammoth fortune. Mega-millions. In other words he’s a man who has never had to work one job, much less two. He has several children; I know, because they were at the reading with him, all lined up. I heard someone say they were all traveling with him, plus two nannies, on his worldwide tour.
None of this takes away from his brilliance. Yet, when an audience member — young, wide-eyed, clearly not clued in — rose to ask him how he’d managed to spend 10 years writing his current masterpiece — What had he done to sustain himself and his family during that time? — he told her in a serious tone that it had been tough but he’d written a number of magazine articles to get by. I heard a titter pass through the half of the audience that knew the truth. But the author, impassive, moved on and left this woman thinking he’d supported his Manhattan life for a decade with a handful of pieces in the Nation and Salon.
Example two. A reading in a different city, featuring a 30-ish woman whose debut novel had just appeared on the front page of the New York Times Book Review. I didn’t love the book (a coming-of-age story set among wealthy teenagers) but many people I respect thought it was great, so I defer. The author had herself attended one of the big, East Coast prep schools, while her parents were busy growing their careers on the New York literary scene. These were people — her parents — who traded Christmas cards with William Maxwell and had the Styrons over for dinner. She, the author, was their only beloved child.
After prep school, she’d earned two creative writing degrees (Iowa plus an Ivy). Her first book was being heralded by editors and reviewers all over the country, many of whom had watched her grow up. It was a phenomenon even before it hit bookshelves. She was an immediate star.
When (again) an audience member, clearly an undergrad, rose to ask this glamorous writer to what she attributed her success, the woman paused, then said that she had worked very, very hard and she’d had some good training, but she thought in looking back it was her decision never to have children that had allowed her to become a true artist. If you have kids, she explained to the group of desperate nubile writers, you have to choose between them and your writing. Keep it pure. Don’t let yourself be distracted by a baby’s cry.
I was dumbfounded. I wanted to leap to my feet and shout. “Hello? Alice Munro! Doris Lessing! Joan Didion!” Of course, there are thousands of other extraordinary writers who managed to produce art despite motherhood. But the essential point was that, the quality of her book notwithstanding, this author’s chief advantage had nothing to do with her reproductive decisions. It was about connections. Straight up. She’d had them since birth.
In my opinion, we do an enormous “let them eat cake” disservice to our community when we obfuscate the circumstances that help us write, publish and in some way succeed. I can’t claim the wealth of the first author (not even close); nor do I have the connections of the second. I don’t have their fame either. But I do have a huge advantage over the writer who is living paycheck to paycheck, or lonely and isolated, or dealing with a medical condition, or working a full-time job.
How can I be so sure? Because I used to be poor, overworked and overwhelmed. And I produced zero books during that time. Throughout my 20s, I was married to an addict who tried valiantly (but failed, over and over) to stay straight. We had three children, one with autism, and lived in poverty for a long, wretched time. In my 30s I divorced the man because it was the only way out of constant crisis. For the next 10 years, I worked two jobs and raised my three kids alone, without child support or the involvement of their dad.
I published my first novel at 39, but only after a teaching stint where I met some influential writers and three months living with my parents while I completed the first draft. After turning in that manuscript, I landed a pretty cushy magazine editor’s job. A year later, I met my second husband. For the first time I had a true partner, someone I could rely on who was there in every way for me and our kids. Life got easier. I produced a nonfiction book, a second novel and about 30 essays within a relatively short time.
Today, I am essentially “sponsored” by this very loving man who shows up at the end of the day, asks me how the writing went, pours me a glass of wine, then takes me out to eat. He accompanies me when I travel 500 miles to do a 75-minute reading, manages my finances, and never complains that my dark, heady little books have resulted in low advances and rather modest sales.
I completed my third novel in eight months flat. I started the book while on a lovely vacation. Then I wrote happily and relatively quickly because I had the time and the funding, as well as help from my husband, my agent and a very talented editor friend. Without all those advantages, I might be on page 52. OK, there’s mine. Now show me yours.
Ann Bauer, ““Sponsored” by my husband: Why it’s a problem that writers never talk about where their money comes from”, http://www.salon.com/2015/01/25/sponsored_by_my_husband_why_its_a_problem_that_writers_never_talk_about_where_their_money_comes_from/ (via angrygirlcomics)
This applies to comics too.
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This applies to ANY kind of art.
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but seriously this is why i am all about being transparent on how creatives get by
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When you call veganism/animal rights a white person thing you...
That response brings up an important subject that a lot of vegans seem to avoid discussing, partially because white vegans are more represented, and they wouldn’t know about such matters so they don’t get brought into light, and also because a lot of vegans get so hung up on animal cruelty, that they forget that they also used to consume animal products and all the situational variables that could impede a vegan lifestyle.
Something that a lot of people here seem to fail to acknowledge, or fail to even notice, coming from a society where animal products are cheap and in abundance, is the fact that that is a privilege of our society. In other places, animal products are not cheap, and they’re not in abundance. My father came from a lower class family in Mexico, and one day I decided to ask him, “What did you used to eat as a child?” and he replied, “Mostly rice and beans, fruits and vegetables. Meat was too expensive, so I didn’t eat it very often.” Much like most ‘poorer’ people in other nations. When my mom makes vegetable soup, my sister complains about how she doesn’t want to eat it, because it’s “poor people food.” What most people think of when they think veg(etari)an, is “fake meat,” “fake cheese,” tofu, and other imitation products that do, in fact, end up costing quite a bit, and are a privilege to have access to. They, however, are an unnecessary variable in a vegan diet. I don’t require imitation products to thrive as a vegan, and it’s actually much kinder to my wallet to exclude those foods for the most part. And tofu isn’t even a vegan exclusive food item, it’s a food item eaten quite often throughout Asia, even among meat…especially in poorer countries. Veganism is a movement in response to unnecessary cruelty, and unsustainable practice in the ‘modern world.’ It’s not a movement to stop the whole world from killing animals. I’m well aware of the fact that Inuits live off of a diet consisting largely of animals they hunt, I’m WELL aware of the fact that some people hunt to survive, but here’s the catch… Who here, typin’ away on Tumblr, needs to hunt to survive? I read a lot of, “My family hunts to keep the animal population in the forest in balance.” but that’s a bunch of bogus mumbo jumbo, because when was the last time the forests in western countries were so overrun with deer that they needed humans to come in and kill some of them off? And who here on Tumblr gets their animal products that come from a factory farm? I’m sure all of us, because aaallllmost 100% of animal products (in the US) come from factory farms. Unless you’re paying like $50 a pound for grass fed, antibiotic-free meat coming from some small, family run farm, then you’re really privileged.
It’s a movement with the belief that if it’s unnecessary for us to survive off of the cruel and MASS slaughter of animals, then we will survive without it. We won’t support the large corporations that tell us we need them to live, because we don’t, and we’re living proof. The whole “milk for strong bones” thing that GOT MILK? has been feeding us our whole lives is also complete bogus, and we shouldn’t be buying that. Not when the countries that consume the most dairy, also have the highest rates of osteoporosis.
There is also diversity among the beliefs that vegans have. People think we’re all in one big group, agreeing on everything, and we’re all a part of PETA, but that’s not true. Some vegans deny the idea that humans can even eat animal products and digest them, biologically. I completely believe that humans are opportunistic omnivores, otherwise, we would have never come this far, and if I was stranded on a desert island, chances are, I’d probably eat a pig to survive if I had to. Some humans resort to CANNIBALISM to survive. I don’t know what kind of desperation for life I’ll have in a situation like that. When I was in Mexico and visited relatives who weren’t so well off, I got on just fine on rice and beans, and fruit and nuts, (especially since that’s mostly what they’re eating) and when you can explain yourself properly, it’s not rude to say that you’d rather not eat the meat portion of the meal.
Veganism isn’t just privileged people sad/angry about animals. It’s people going against practices that privileged people have the option to do, which is killing animals when they’re not needed. I’m not about to stop some poor brown people from eating meat when that’s their only option. Especially since I’m brown, and know what it’s like for people to only have things like McDonald’s as their food option. Some vegans get this whacky idea that they have to be angry at everyone, including poor people, because they’re just so hurt at the idea of killing animals, but it’s best to be realistic, and also to be understanding, and to know that PoC also have the voice and ability to create change.
(I didn’t address the treatment of humans exploited by companies that produce a lot of our food, because that’s actually quite a different issue, one that isn’t exclusive to PoC, and one that also comes into my own family, because I have a lot of family members that work on farms that grow fruits, vegetables and raise animals for meat that get shipped across the nation.)
Hey thanks so much for this response, Ramón! This is so enlightening and expanded really well on what OP was getting at.
I hope I haven't swerved so messily out of my lane, if I have, I apologize and will be more thoughtful with my words, I did want to clarify that wasn't my intention, and wanted to see where OP's post was really getting at, and who specifically she was addressing.
Personally (I should have clarified this too, rather than making blanket statements about indigenous/cultural groups that I don't belong to or for me to tell, like NDN groups in the US or the Inuit, [as a segue, they tell their own stories about it here and you'd be surprised! that they DO have computer/blogging access lol] ) - Personally in my country, my grandfather came from specific province that traditionally hunted/killed/ate certain animals considered as "culturally barbaric/backward tribal practices" by Western G.I.s he worked with and even well-to-do Filipinos. So even if he came from a poorer family, he was forced to forego this old practice to avoid the social stigma when he moved to the capital. (that's another hot mess story for another day)
Never mind that during the WWII Bataan Death March (the Japanese Occupation), my Grandpa was one of the soldiers who would later try to save American fighters (the same aforementioned Westerners) by teaching them to eat only the yams and forest plants along the march. This was to avoid dying from forced starvation and famine brought on by the Japanese soldiers there who killed/burned/stole Filipino village livestock and burned crops.
In the 80's, my own father did conservation work for the endangered Philippine Eagle species and was hired by an American scientific team to help navigate the forests in Mindanao. Though he himself was passionate about saving the eagle and preserving the untouched rainforests there as his American colleages, he was kinda unsettled by their western attitude of simply saving/documenting ONLY the animals. They weren't taking into regard the indigenous tribes being forced out of the same rainforests (because the US team sometimes had to cozy up to President Marcos for science funding, a president who ironically allowed certain corporations their illegal logging and permanent devastation to this ecosystem. It was messed up, though I hope other recent conservation efforts thwart this).
When I went to the U.S again as a preteen in a liberal/performing arts school, many (almost all) of my classmates/friends were vegan. Though I understand they were young at the time (hopefully they're not like this anymore) I experienced a lot of overt disgust (at times verging on staight up racism) from some of them whenever I would eat my packed Filipino lunches that contained meat (the only sort of things my family could buy/knew how to cook at the time) "ewww is that dog?? Don't breathe on me you just ate MEAT" etc sort of comments that I felt better eating by myself in the art or music rooms. Which gave me the impression at the time, it came from less of a place of actually caring about animals that got killed, but moreso just dispelling me from their presense.
And I know by reading replies by @duvallon or @irresistable-revolution (centuries old vegetarian diets in China with tofu/vegan diets in Sri Lanka) these sort of historic dietary traditions have existed in E.Asia/S.Asia/SEAsia even before the onset of Western concepts of Veganism and the Western capitalization/appropriation of these eating habits, and what probs OP was kinda gettin at!
I got the idea from visiting OP's blog where her praxis of activism lies. I can't change that! That's her decision, even if where the direction of the 1st posts' conversation I believe lacked serious nuance (as most problems with tumblr lol) and gives me a knee-jerk reaction. You'd have to understand on my end and experiences why I react as such: where my personal praxis is situated. Why it's easier to take on the symptom from a Western gaze rather than the whole system and the ironic complexities built around it, when these issues might be different, I feel are still interconnected. That's just me tho.
But I'm glad I read your response, and much better educated for it!
#long post#veganism#isms#like I seent some of yall taking an opportunity to piss on veganism as whole QUIT BEING MESSY YALL OMG#like I don't speak for Filipin@s in general- everyone has a different story#i better stop before yall have to drag me repeatedly again#im not going back to OP's blog my blood pressure brings me back to highschool days#I don't know her Mariah Carey.gif
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From The Chicago Tribune, 1966. 50 years and the white moderate’s arguments against social justice haven’t changed one word.
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“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source: The Atlantic
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comic for the Commonwealth Times, inspired by a couple posts here on tumblr.
we love our fictional fight-the-man stories, but we ignore or disdain the ones happening all around us — the ones that have real consequences.
ARE YOU FLIPPING KIDDING ME
"a young british thief teams up with the thieves"
WHY
WHYYYYYYY
WHYYYYYYYYYYY
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The fuck!!!!!!!! It’s called Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves not Lord Crumpets Gentleman Thief and the 40 Shifty Codgers.
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What did Clint Eastwood do?
made a movie all about killing iraqi people—probably jerked off on set
Bee Vang, one of the actors in Gran Torino even said Clint treated the Hmong actors like shit. {x}
- Eastwood would not allow them to change or improvise their lines.
- He also wouldn’t give any tips on character building to the Hmong casts.
- Hmong actors where told to “make Noises” by rambling words in their own language.
- The cast members excluded them from cast events because they immediately assumed that Hmong actors were exactly like their character counterparts—unable to speak English clearly or to understand anything “American.”
- Vang also mentioned that he was upset by the way the Hmongs were portrayed in the film. He did not want the Hmong community—his own community—to be seen in a negative light by the audience. He pointed out that tea ceremonies were not performed correctly, that some of their important political lines in the script were not subtitled into English, and that these inaccuracies led to misconceptions of the community.
AKA Clint is a piece of shit that does not care about anyones race or cultural heritage but instead jerks off to the whole idea of white supremacy and saviorism.
I mean did we think differently of Clint Eastwood before. After John Wayne he is like the peak of old male whiteness.
I was supposed to go to bed now I’m all riled up about Clint Eastwood being a piece of shit again. Him trying to be “‘“not racist’”’” and then being AS RACIST AS POSSIBLE in real life and his films looool
Talking with Silkchemise and it’s exactly like she said;
"it’s like that episode of Spongebob where he and Patrick are like ‘We saved the town!’
And the town’s on fire.”
it’s completely and totally surprising that a movie about heroizing and humanizing a white soldier committing mass murder of brown muslims in support of U.S. imperialism received more award nominations than a film showcasing a black opposition movement from a black perspective without the requisite white savior narrative.