the most fun I’ve had since january 1st 2017 

fandomshatepeopleofcolor:

Is Benedict Cumberbatch’s face too beautiful for movie posters?    

OR: is his back is such a fine and sturdy back that it warrants top billing?

You know damn well neither of those are the reason

that boy ugly as shit

STOP PLAYING LIKE Y'ALL DONT KNOW WHY THEY DONT SHOW HIS FACE IN MOVIE POSTERS

Dr Strange is more than just a curdled milk white guy in a goatee, it’s the epitome of white people’s consumption of Asian cultures and using it to forward their own narrative while erasing us from it. It’s imperialism and erasure. it’s yellowface, which symbolizes a straight century of violent systematic dehumanisation.

so full offense but if you support that clusterfuck of a movie you need to stay 5533829 light years away from me.

also, before the concern trolls start coming in let me just say this: yes, you are allowed to like problematic media; no you are not defined by the media you consume. 

but there is a huge, huge, difference between liking something despite its problems and liking something because of it. Dr Strange is not the first and will not be the last franchise to erase a character’s heritage, but that’s not the only problem. 

the problem is that the entire concept of this movie was based on the notion that Asian cultures exist for white people’s consumption, both from an intra-text and an extra text perspective. Because the giant white circlejerk that is Marvel decided that our stories about our own cultures are not worth telling and needed a pot of white curdled milk to tell it for us, giving him the narrative of using exotification, orientalism and white consumption to fight off yellow peril villains. 

if you take away that concept…what else is left of the movie? two white guys you drool over? movies like Dr Strange (and American Sniper before that and the Interview before that and Lucy before that) are grounded in white supremacist ideals that dehumanise non-white, non-Western and based on the idea that we are supposed to be incongruous to their pain. 

if your enjoyment of a piece of media is based on the fact that this movie dehumanises the people it appropriates from and being able to ignore that because you can turn a blind eye and deaf ear, then yes, you are part of the problem. 

“white guy accident superpowers mysticism internal conflicts superhero everyone stick around for the tag at the end of the credits”

“also stars tilda swinton as the character that’s usually an asian guy”

YES

Benedict Cumberbatch literally compared autistic kids to Frankenstein’s monster and said that we shouldn’t give autistic people ‘false hope’ by showing them in a positive light

please stop supporting him

”So we went to two extraordinary schools and met some high spectrum autistic kids. […] You know, there are certain barriers that aren’t there because of the arrested development that… there was a 17 year old that had the mental age of, I think, an 18 month old.” ”[The monster]’s very much an innocent.  He’s very much someone who is carried through life, as someone who is so different, not only because of his appearance, but because of these behaviorial tics, which are very autistic, um, both in his understanding of the world, psychologically and emotionally, but also physically as well, how that manifests later in his body.“ Source (open letter that links to a dead link but has a transcript of the relevant part) Source (Transcript of different interview where some of same things are repeated.)

“[Being autistic is] a real struggle all the time. Then these people pop up in my work and they’re sort of brilliant, and they on some levels almost offer false hope for the people who are going through the reality of it.”  Source (Metro US)

Also, just because, the Your Fave Is Problematic post for him.

If Idris Elba is too street to play James Bond, then Benedict Cumberbatch is too alien to play any role on earth

The making of Smaug. (x)

he gets paid to do that

are you telling me cucumber man humped the ground and screamed for 2 minutes and gets a lot of money and tons of fan girls, but when i do it I’m “intoxicated” and “ruining my sister’s wedding”

Reblogging for the comment

Okay. Just hold on a minute. As a white female, I agree with almost everything in this post. Yes, whitewashing is everywhere, and no, I do not favor it. However, it is NOT the actor’s fault for playing the role. They are simply doing their job. Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Lawrence and every other actor receiving rude comments for ‘whitewashing a role’ should be appreciated no matter what character they are, even if the role calls for a race that they aren’t. They are flawless as their characters and shouldn’t be discriminated because of people being upset about ‘the race of the character was all wrong, and they chose a white person to do it!’ And let me say this again. IT IS THEIR JOBS. THEY WORKED HARD TO BE IN THOSE MOVIES AND SHOWS. Have a little respect.

I don’t need to give anyone who contributes and/or perpetuates to whitewashing my respect.

I don't even know why people are questioning what role Benedict will play in Star Wars..

vwoom vwoom motherfuckers

x

iconic

IM SCREAMING

God bless Chris’ light

“fuck outta here you weak bitch”

praise god amen

- Star Trek  actor Garrett Wang is coolly generating a discussion with his fans on the whitewashing in Star Trek Into Darkness on his twitter page. (via racebending)

HAHAHA ALRIGHT BUDDY (who I’ve kept anonymous because getting into fights with people is not cool and really I’m responding less to them and more to the man they quoted) let’s talk about this for a second.

First of all, Moffat speaking on an issue does not mean the issue is resolved. Moffat is one man with one opinion and his is not the end-all be-all, especially since he’s pretty fucking biased against Elementary anyway. He feels like there’s competition. Of course he’s mad. But I could cite Benedict Cumberbatch, who’s made his name playing Sherlock Holmes, and who encourages people to watch Elementary because a) it’s okay to have two Sherlock Holmes adaptations going at once, modern or not, and, b) one of his best friends is playing Holmes himself. Now, it might make sense for Benedict to feel competitive with that, but he doesn’t, because this isn’t a big fucking deal.

As for Moffat, well, he kind of has a history of being an arrogant dick who doesn’t know when to shut the fuck up.

But general arrogance and bias aside, let’s pick this argument apart, shall we?

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Yes to all of this. Moffat's a fucking assbag full of shit.