Tag: racism

peaceheather:

abbieprime:

stfueverything:

dbvictoria:

With all the heat Anita Sarkeesian gets for her Tropes series, you’d think it was a new topic, but Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert had a discussion on a similar theme when they were talking about the influx of slasher movies on their show in 1980.

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34 years later and this is STILL relevant

That’s my goddamn lifetime.  

always reblog

Hollywood still has too much to atone for.  The dominance of white males in that system is still largely unchallenged and we still have too many films and television programmes that cater largely to white male audiences.  This dominance has always been a reflection of – and a social assist to – white male superiority in society.  

So long as audiences pay to see the latest white male hero and stay away from films with diverse casting, POC, especially women, nothing changes.  

Films like Ghostbusters, Hidden Figures and Get Out make in-roads, but we’re also on our fifth Jack Sparrow outing no one asked for and another Spiderman no one asked for and another Thor film,  etc –  will be out soon.  This is the dominant form.  

Go see Wonder Woman. See it twice.  Tune out the hundreds of white male hero dramas on telly, support shows with diverse casting and diverse production teams.  We really don’t need another James Bond or Ethan Hunt or Jason Bourne or King Arthur or Game of Thrones.  It’s been done.  White hero stereotypes are done. Violence against women and minorities as entertainment – backward and more than done.  Move on, move forward.  

Without progress, we keep spinning our wheels in the same rut and look at society – no better.  Our art should reflect the depth and breadth of what we are and can be – not cater to the egotistical, sexist, racist demands of the needy few.  

helgasbattleax:

oldshrewsburyian:

take-me-to-your-lieder:

take-me-to-your-lieder:

glorianas:

i feel like all medieval dramas have been low key ruined by game of thrones because now the showrunners believe all viewers just want gratuitous violence, soft corn porn sex scenes and exaggerated sexism

Things I want more of in medieval dramas:

– Culture! I want to see art and books! I want to hear music! Show me the Minnesänger, you cowards!

– Scholarship! I want to see people learning the ways of scholasticism in universities and having discussions on philosophy, medicine, law, etc. If a series takes place in Italy, I want to see the Schola Medica Salernitana, and the fact that women studied there too.

– Speaking of women, I want to see women who abided by traditional gender roles being shown as badass too. Medieval women don’t need to pick up a sword to be interesting and worthy of respect. After all, when the men were at war, who ran everything? Their wives.

– Also, the ladies had body hair and didn’t wear modern makeup.

– Humour! People had fun then too. I think the manuscripts that feature apes with butt trumpets are a testament to that.

– People not turning their longbows sideways to shoot. Seriously. That is a shitty way to shoot a bow.

– Peasants NOT being shown as completely filthy and having horrible teeth. Sure they didn’t have modern dentistry or showers, but people had other ways of keeping clean. They definitely had worn teeth because the foods they ate weren’t as soft as they are nowadays, but decay was only a problem later on when sugar was more available.

Minor correction: I have just been informed that noble ladies DID in fact have hair removal.

Schola Medica Salernitana, woo! I co-sign all of this, and add that I would like to see more

– Trade! I watched Pillars of the Earth with a bunch of other medievalists and we all got super-excited about the wool trade. Long-distance trade and complex markets were a thing!

– Relatedly, cultural exchange! As a thing that was normal! 

– Crafts and industry! Show me beer-brewing! Public ovens! Smithing! Weaving! Apothecaries! 

– People with hilarious distinguishing surnames/nicknames. Far too uncommon in medieval-set drama

– Complex religious cultures, interactions between religious and lay institutions/authorities, etc.

– Also, complex, nuanced relationships between belief, unbelief, and inconsistent beliefs, please and thank you

Yes!!! Just less violence for shock value, way less violence against women, and just more female characters in general. Oh, and some diversity would be good too.

Queer people existed and it would be nice to see them portrayed as something other than fops who get thrown out of windows.  

Also: you don’t have to set it in Europe or faux-Europe with pale-skinned people. 

queeranarchism:

afloweroutofstone:

Matt Stone and Trey Parker have done more to make our generation crueler than nearly anyone else, because they can get away with it under the guise of “this is satire, duh”, not realizing that poorly-done satire only reinforces the cultural forces it is meant to mock. When 13 year-old-kids are watching South Park, they aren’t tuning in to the little infinitesimally small lessons supposedly being taught, they’re laughing at Timmy being severely disabled, they’re laughing at sexual harassment, they’re laughing at child abuse, they’re laughing at anti-semitism, they’re laughing at people who have had sex reassignment surgery.

And the “satire” is so often pathetically weak. There isn’t a single nativist in this entire country who can’t laugh at a “der takin er jerbs” joke, because those jokes don’t actually rebut or mock the arguments made by people opposed to immigration. It’s just saying a common political phrase in a funny voice. Is that how low the bar for “satire” has been set? There’s occasionally more effective satire on the show, but not nearly enough for it to be defended on the basis of its value as satire.

But if you try to explain any of this to die-hard South Park fans, they’ll completely blow it off. They think that the fact the show upsets me simply means that the show has accomplished its purpose, never actually questioning whether or not that purpose is a worthy one. That’s why the show is so insidious: it wraps itself in this cynical layer of self-containment that prevents it from ever being pointed out for what it is: a detriment to the type of society that any decent person wants to see. South Park is far more dangerous than the Westboro Baptist Church, because South Park is something that people accept and defend.

Yes. And there’s a whole genre of shows, news websites and media out there now whose ‘satire’ amount to LOL IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE ITS OFFENSIVE. That is not harmless, that is actively creating (and has created over the last decades) a culture in which bigots can thrive and feel like they never have to defend themselves.

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ayothewuisback:

White peoples’ definition of racism is hurt feelings, instead of what it actually is, and that’s systematic destruction of an ethnic group. Understand that, and then you’ll understand why racism doesn’t “go both ways”.

This, right here.

black-to-the-bones:

This is so disgusting to watch. They are 12 year-old boys, who “matched the description” and had to experience this horror. A little boy crying scared to death and the other one telling him to stop , because he wants to stay alive is what makes me cry. Just try to understand this- they know the way cops treat black boys and trying to calm themselves down TO SURVIVE THIS. How horrifying is that?

‘Casually’ pointing a gun at children.

jaspysayshello:

Okay listen, I totally get overboarding a plane is a thing BUT here’s why I’m fucking mad

#1 They immediately chose an Asian man.

#2 The man’s refusal to leave was because he was a DOCTOR who had to see patients IN THE MORNING

#3 Legally airline officials and police offers are not allowed to board a plane unless due to two circumstances, ONE a passenger is endangering other passengers whether through unruly behavior or possession of a weapon, or two, a passenger is causing a disruption. This passenger was not causing a disruption UNTIL HE WAS DRAGGED OFF THE PLANE

#4 Legally airline rules state that a passenger may be denied boarding a flight due to overboarding. NO WHERE in the rules states that they can do it after everyone has been boarded, AND DRAG THEM OFF THEY PLANE WHILE THEY ARE SCREAMING, HIT THEIR HEAD AND KNOCK THEM UNCONSCIOUS AND GIVE THEM MAJOR FACIAL INJURIES AND A FUCKING CONCUSSION

#5 The man returned to the plane and while being brutally attacked continued screaming “just kill me just kill me” This man would’ve rather died than be treated like that

#6 AND LAST BUT THE BIGGEST FUCKING THING OF ALL, IN AN INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES LEOCHA, A MEMBOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION’S ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AVIATION CONSUMER PROTECTIONS

“They could’ve put their own people on a different flight. They could have sent a couple of crew members across town to the other Chicago airport. They could have put the crew on a Southwest flight. And if they had offered passengers $1,350 in cash, I bet they would have had ten people jump up and take it. And there would’ve been people who would’ve rented a car and drove down to Louisville. There were a lot of things the airline could’ve done, but they didn’t.”

I think this says a lot about americas treatment of minorities. A guarantee you if they had asked a white cishet businessman to leave and he refused they would’ve moved on
They could’ve just moved on. They could’ve asked other people. Or be like “hey we’ll give you $1,350 cash if you leave AND EVERYONE WOULD BE RUSHING OUT OF THE PLANE EXCEPT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY NEED IT
LIKE A DOCTOR WHO NEEDS TO SEE HIS PATIENTS

Edit to post as new information has been released: Other people volunteered to go instead of the man while the incident was happening. They were denied.

Edit # 2: For everyone in notes saying this isn’t about race because a “computer system selected it”

#1 a young white couple offered to go instead, they were refused

#2The computer system did not chose to beat him and drag him off the plane

#3 He had a very valid and important reason why he had to stay on that plane, in the videos you can hear him politely say “I am sorry I cannot leave I am a doctor who has to see patients in the morning”

#4 There was no disruption for the police to be called there UNTIL the police were called there, with the police creating the disruption itself by dragging this man out of the plane

#5 The second time the man boarded the plane he was brutalized even further and was knocked out, having to be carried off the plane in a STRETCHER
Yeah totally this wasn’t about race oops silly me guess it’s okay that he was beaten to an abhorred extent with no basis or grounds

Supergirl

99percentyou:

Calling all those strongly opposed to Karamel as a couple, Mon-El as a character, and the deplorable writing of the Supergirl staff and the toxic messages they’re sending: racism, sexism, misogyny.

We have the power to incite change. We have the power to turn the tables. Write them. Write media outlets. I’ve read some of your arguments, and they are great. Send them. Flood their inboxes. Give them all the negative press we can. Target the sponsors of the show.

If you are sick and tired of seeing them neglect Alex/Maggie in favor of Kara/Mon-El who spend 99% of the time arguing, tell them. If you are disgusted by the way The CW canned the interracial coupling of Kara/James as soon as they switched networks in favor of a white male, express yourself! If you are baffled by the message they are spreading by insinuating that we as women are supposed to forgive the man in the span of a few hours no matter how deeply betrayed or hurt we feel, let it be heard! If you are pissed because they sent M’gann to her home planet therefore alienating (pun intended) yet another black man to allow for more Mon-El screen time, shout it out! Whatever has struck a nerve with how terribly this season has gone all because of a privileged frat boy from Daxam crash landing on earth, let them know.

Don’t think it won’t matter. It will. Ratings matter. The show may be renewed for season 3, but we have the power to dictate how that season will play out. Storylines are NOT set in stone. We have to be proactive! Raise hell. Stand up for Kara Zor-El because clearly we cannot trust anyone else to do it for her. Let’s take our show back.

If anyone remembers the shit storm with The 100 and the whole Lincoln/Lexa thing, then you already know what a fandom can do when they write sponsors and fight for their voices to be heard.

Appropriating Audre: On The Need to Locate the Oppressor Within Us | Bitch Media

fuckyeahlesbianliterature:

The worst kind of appropriation of Audre Lorde is taking place these days by folks who use her quotes (out of context) to serve their own anti-intersectional projects. As self-care has become a trending topic in social-justice circles, different venues have taken up Lorde’s famous saying on self-care without critically reflecting on how Lorde’s need for self-care stemmed from living and surviving under racist heteropatriarchy.

THIS.

Appropriating Audre: On The Need to Locate the Oppressor Within Us | Bitch Media