May 2013
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25 Minority Characters That Hollywood Whitewashed →
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reverseracism:
Oh look.
Another white actor chosen to play a character that is not white.
And a light-skinned woman of color being cast as a character who was described as dark-skinned.
And another author who’s okay with it because they feel like the actors fit the character so well.
Again I ask, why do white authors make their characters into people of color when they don’t care about them...
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“It’s not that easy to be an actor of Asian ancestry in Britain or America. There...”
– Ricky S. Sekhon, on playing Osama Bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty.
The next week, I was offered the part of the world’s most notorious terrorist. My first reaction was an expletive that cannot be printed here.
I am a 29-year-old native Londoner, a moderate Sikh with a drama degree from Royal...
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buck-barnes:
i wish there was a non-assholeish way to say “our friendship has run it’s course, you make me uncomfortable with your feelings and a lot of shit you do pisses me off bye”
IT’S AFRICAN VIOLET TIME
(Basically, there is no way this wont end in hurt feefees, so the awkwardtown friend break up ritual is to give the African Violet, and go on your merry way)
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damngruchy:
hailthelordylordypicca:
i wish someone loved me the way Jay Gatsby loves Daisy
NO YOU DON’T
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Imagine a World Without Colonialism: crezias:... →
crezias:
Listen, I know tumblr only cares about American news, but this is really fucking tragic, and if this doesn’t get an coverage I will be incredibly angry.
The conservative’s bedroom tax has actually led to a woman taking her own life. Let me repeat that for you; a peice of government legislation had had such a detrimental impact on someone’s life that they wrote letters, packed up their...
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knittedlampshade:
thinking about shitty awful bigoted things you said in the past
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12-year-old girl: I don't want kids when I grow up.
Society: You'll change your mind when you get older. You're only 12. You're too young to know what you want.
16-year-old girl: I'm pregnant.
Society: How could you be so stupid? Do you know anything about safe sex? You should be ashamed.
20-year-old woman: I'm a single mother with an infant son.
Society: You should've gone to college first. You need a stable career before you can support a child.
33-year-old woman: I'm married and my spouse and I both have stable careers. I have two young daughters now.
Society: You're not staying home? Who's going to take care of them? You're just going to put them in day care while you work? That's selfish of you. You can't expect to raise decent kids with a full-time job.
45-year-old woman: I just had my first child.
Society: Why would you have a child when you're that old? Do you realize the health risks of being pregnant at your age? When your kid is a teenager you'll be a senior citizen. That's inconsiderate of you.
60-year-old woman: I haven't had any children.
Society: Your life must be so unfulfilling. Is there something wrong with you? Why didn't you want kids? How strange.
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il-tenore-regina:
matthulksmash:
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muggleland:
the ceo of abercrombie and fitch has a lot of nerve saying that ugly people shouldn’t wear his clothes when he looks like a caucasian orc from the lord of the rings
I AM FINISHED
Omg someone did it for me!
LMFAO
HAAAAAAA
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Seema Jilani: My Racist Encounter at the White... →
New to the Washington scene, I was to experience the spectacle with my husband, a journalist, and enjoy an evening out. Or at least an hour out. You see, as a spouse I was not allowed into the actual dinner. Those of us who are not participating in the hideous schmooze-fest that is this evening are relegated to attending the cocktail hour only, if that. Our guest was the extraordinarily...
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Shannon bitches about race and TP fancasts some...
yellowis4happy:
Oh, Lord, here we go.
I’m going to focus on the Trickster’s duology here, because I frequently see things that really irritate me in the fancasts people do for them, but a lot of this applies to the other Tortall books.
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veralidained:
fact: when someone makes a fancast its how they see it
you don’t have to agree with it okay
now leave the wHOA NO I HATE THAT FANCAST DO IT RIGHT thing and lets all be friends
However, If a character is a cannon POC that has been whitewashed in a fancast*, and you have the energy, feel free to point it out.
Hopefully they’ll be all “oh, wow,...
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theindependentvigilante:
My favorite part of the Hunger Games is the fact that the books aren’t supposed to be all about the love triangle yet that’s the only thing the media really cares about.
DO YOU ALL REALIZE THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE CAPITOL PAID ATTENTION TO TOO. THEIR MAIN FOCUS WAS THAT DAMN LOVE TRIANGLE AND OUR MEDIA DOES THE SAME THING. I DON’T...
