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Friday, June 23, 2017 at 8:51AM • Guardian Great interview with Holly Hunter about The Big Sick and her career. (People are already mentioning "Oscar nom!" in regards to her supporting work as Zoe Kazan's mother in the romantic comedy)
• Pajiba on what the new Defenders posters might remind you of
• Playbill Adorable John Benjamin Hickey, fresh off the revival of Six Degrees of Separation, thinks there should be a fine for people who leave their cel phones on in theaters. Agreed!
• Screen Crush picks the 25 best LGBT films of the past 25 years. Happy to see Pariah and Bound mixed in with the usual titles like Brokeback Mountain and such. And the past few years have been so good for LGBT cinema. I mean: Carol, The Handmaiden, Moonlight, Tangerine. #Blessed
• Esquire Fun article by Tyler Coates on how he finally learned to love RuPaul's Drag Race which he had avoided for years and even bad-mouthed in print
• Theater Mania you don't see this often but there's an actual age restriction on the Broadway adaptation of George Orwell's "1984". No one under 13 will be admitted due to its intensity. The show stars Tom Sturridge, Reed Birney, Olivia Wilde, and TFE fav Cara Seymour (who previously did that lovely guest spot for us). I'm seeing it soon so will report back.
• IndieWire has issues with the "orientalism" of the new Twin Peaks. Add this to the onling Sofia Coppola controversy and... well... People I don't know what to do with all the outrage anymore at everything. There's got to be a line where, as an adult, you're just okay with what you're seeing and discarding the parts that irk you, or filing them under "I don't know about that but whatever" if they're not harmfully intended. Artists will always have their own peculiar obsessions and they'll always draw from a wide variety of influences (at least the good ones will) to craft their own stories and nobody really owns history; pop culture and the arts are giant beautiful melting pots of ideas and aesthetics from all over the world. Oh and also the Laura Dern hairstyle is not proprietarily Asian as the article seems to imply. I know this because I was obsessed with silent film star Louise Brooks as a teenager (Pandora's Box & Diary of a Lost Girl 4ever!). It was originally called the 'Castle Bob,' because Irene Castle (a famous NY dancer) debuted the then-shocking look in 1915. It was a very controversial look but became a sensation in the 1920s with flappers and silent film stars. Hollywood's first popular Asian American actress Anna May Wong, who the article references as an influence on Dern's look, actually had to get her hair cut like that because it was so popular.
• This is Not Porn great photo of Oscar winner Kim Hunter in makeup chair on The Planet of the Apes (1968)
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• The New Yorker "Tennessee Williams with Air Conditioning"... *fans self* I was cackling so loud by the end of this. Best article in forever.
• McSweeneys "11 Ways That I, a White Man, Am Not Privileged" Oops. Hee!
• Buzzfeed "25 Gay Pride signs that will make you laugh harder than you should" - so many of these are so wonderful I just want to hug all gay people for being funny and able to spell
• McSweeneys "An Oral History of Quentin Tarantino as Told to Me By Men I've Dated"
What places are delivering right now? So, in the early ’90s, right around when Pulp Fiction came out, Quentin Tarantino and Mira Sorvino were dating. I always thought Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion was a dumb chick flick, but I caught part of it on cable the other day and there was an ad for Red Apple cigarettes in the background of one of the shots! Do you know about Red Apple cigarettes?
Reader Comments (47)
The Screen Crush list is missing Mysterious Skin!
I don't believe in age restriction.
There's a priceless anecdote at the end of the John Benjamin Hickey interview regarding Goldie Hawn and The First Wives Club. Divas!
I'll have to disagree with you on Twin Peaks and the Sofia Coppola controversy, Nathaniel. Who cares if the haircut originated from some obscure white actress of the time? It is now synonymous and ingrained with Asian culture and not white culture.
Also, calling out Sofia for her Aryan films in a time when Trump is president is not outrage, but natural. Why should we support filmmakers that only care about white people?
I hear you on the online outrage on everything (!) getting annoying. Like people getting mad at the new alien film's ship crew not having enough gay people (one of the 6-8 couples wasn't enough, I guess). Sometimes people just want to get mad for no reason.
beyaccount -- my point is that nobody "owns" a look. Louise Brooks and Colleen Moore were not "obscure" actresses. Irene Castle was not obscure. These were famous people in the 1910s and 1920s. American girls, whole swaths of them, popularized that look in the 20s but then it no longer belonged to them because its popularity spread. It doesn't belong to Asian culture either. That's what happens with styles wherever they originate that catch on.
In short: IT'S JUST A HAIRSTYLE.
It's foolish in a global world to pretend like we all aren't influencing each other. I am as liberal and pro diversity and civil rights as they come yet I'm increasingly put off with these weird obsessions about what people are allowed to think, like, wear, and talk about. What good is all this finger pointing and shaming? How is it bringing us to a more unified less racist world (which should be the intent). What are the divisions FOR?
What's next? You can only wear things that have proven provenance to your family lineage? Should cornrows be forbidden for white people? Should black people not be allowed to flat iron their hair or wear colored contact lenses because multiple eye colors are so associated with white people? Should David Lynch be shamed for his decades long obsession with Tibetan Mysticism because it's not from his own culture? Should Ang Lee be sent back to Taiwan because he makes (or least made) such rich depictions of cultures that were not his own (both British and American) and we can't have that.
I guess i'm feeling triggered lately? LOL. I just think these divisions will be the end of us all. The way to counteract racism and prejudice is not to demand more separation!
We're all people and we all live in the same world which will continue to become increasingly smaller unless we purposefully erect barriers and WALLS (ugh) and demand that everyone stay in pre-ordained cordoned off areas or lanes. And then what? Will bi-racial people be the only people allowed to freely move about society from one walled off district to another because they have more than one culture they're allowed to love/claim/display?
Amen, Nathaniel.
What often gets lost among the outraged is "intent." Intent is almost everything.
The Bob hairstyle can be traced back to ancient Egypt. Anyway Nate Dogg you stay pretty white in all your observations. I want to theater hop into The Beguiled because supporting her financially would be supporting her agenda.
Hear, hear, Nathaniel. "Who cares if the haircut originated from some obscure white actress of the time?" Obscure to beyaccount, but beyaccount's ignorance on the subject is hardly a convincing argument for or against it. "It is now synonymous and ingrained with Asian culture and not white culture." What is this, squatters' rights? (The U.S. is synonomous and ingrained with settlers and immigrants, not native Americans.) That's selective understanding—presumptuous and willfully ignorant—not deductive reasoning. You're thereby part of the problem, not the solution, honey.
So Joan of Arc, Amelia Earhart and the Flappers were all misappropriating Egyptian culture then. Good to know.
The Senate may shortly pass a bill that will actually kill people, but keep on protesting blonde actresses in Sofia Coppola films and Laura Dern's hairstyle.
@3rtful
Great, so then no one can use it. Let's retire the Bob forever so as to render the legacy of the ancient Egyptians inviolable. Progress!
Holly Hunter is a national treasure.
Should cornrows be forbidden for white people?
Well, since you asked...
/3rtful -- it's it's a "white observation" to know something about silent film star styles and the history of the 20th century, I'll take it! I like having knowledge.
Brevity -- LOL. I mean, they do look stupid on most white people ;) but I'm not about restricting people's rights to do whatever the hell they please as long as it's not hurting anyone else.
Suzanne -- exactly. I so want to be apart of a socially just political movement but the one that's happening right now seems to ignore actual social justice (civil rights, health care for all, social safety nets, anti-gerrymandering, protection against legalized discrimnination based on race, sexual orientation, gender, etcetera) in favor of constant airing of grievances about successful white artists who aren't actually right wingers seeking to hurt people. Who is this helping? We need to unite to fight *actual* legalized discrimination, attacks on the poor, and stop constantly bickering over whether someone is "woke" enough to be respected by whoever is making the judgement.
Re 1984, I saw the Icke/Macmillan production when it was at the A.R.T. last year. A great production, but completely over-hyped by critics and commenters regarding the "violence" and "intensity". Sure, for some theatergoers, strobe lights and loud noises are troublesome (note these are the same people who usually ooh and aah over the chandelier/helicopter/flying car in blockbuster musicals) but it certainly adds to the storytelling. Also, there are LOTS of things children under 13 shouldn't see or do, but it doesn't stop SOME parents from bringing their kids to EVERYTHING (e.g., intimate B&Bs; small, expensive restaurants; R-rated movies; or ANY theater performance longer than 1 hour and not appropriate for children (gawd this is the worst!))
Looking forward to your review.
Also, I agree with everything @Suzanne said.
The cell phone thing at shows and at the movies bother me. They make clear announcements before the show to turn off their cell phones. Do these people think it doesn't apply to them? Do they just not know how to silence their phones?
I was 5 minutes late for a sold old sneak preview of "Murder on the Orient Express" last night (*&^(*%(%ing L.A. traffic!!!!), but they have started the process. Will be trying again to see it!
That New Yorker article is hilarious!
I am very good with Holly Hunter, continual Oscar nominee!
forever1267 -- me too on Holly. And if she gets this nomination she'll have one a decade like Diane Keaton only hers will be 1987, 1993, 2003, 2017 instead of 1977, 1981, 1994, 2003
Raul, I was at The King and I last night, and this lady in the row in front of me was texting right as the curtain was rising. This thing is so infuriating. I almost said something. I just cannot believe people's lack of courtesy. Anna was particularly displeased. Sigh. And not only is it rude, but why are people obsessed with their phone. It's fairly nauseating.
A sincere thank you to you in regards to your well-worded views on being an adult in regards to Twin Peaks and artists and hairstyles and effing constant effing outrage.
Just... thank you.
I mean, your views do come across as white. Especially because Indiewire's article covers far more than just the haircut. They're talking about the Orientalism on display and how Twin Peaks uses this as exotic, not only the haircut.
Anyways. You want to be part of a social justice movement but don't want the work that comes with. In both, the Coppola and this it's People of Color who are speaking about their grievances and your response of "nah, we have more important things!" is shutting them down. It's not that the authors think Sofia Coppola is a racist monster or that changing Laura Dern's haircut is the be all end all of race relations. It's that these two are just mere among the countless examples of how racism is prevalent in our society. Perceiving racism as prevalent only in the legal system is a shallow understanding of it.
Bringing attention to things like this aren't meant to vilify people. Calling people out for their mistakes isn't wrong. If people so genuinely want to be "part of change for the better", zipping it and listening when those in a position of less power are saying "cool, please don't do this." And the article never even suggests Dern or anyone else shouldn't use that haircut. It brings attention to the context of its usage and example of an ongoing problem in the industry. Being called out is part of the end game, making mistakes is part of it and told to do better goes along with it.
If you're tired of people calling out other people (especially white people) for their shortcomings, you don't actually care about civil rights. Well, you care but for yourself. And you don't care for a fight that will continue to include talks that are uncomfortable and hard to talk.
Heck, so many of us who called out Coppola for her problematic work still want to see and will see The Beguiled. It's easier to say people complain too much when it doesn't affect you.
Sorry, Nate. I don't agree with you on this one.
Love the rant Nathaniel and you can see why a lot of people on the "other side" are so tired of political correctness. It cuts off education in my opinion. Instead of helping people to understand it just gets everyone's defenses up.
But anyway, hasn't Anna Wintour been wearing this hairstyle for umpteen years? :-)
I agree with Steve_Man. Pointing out to an ally where they can do better should not be viewed as an attack nor is it placing them in the same rank as a Klan member. Take it as constructive criticism. Appropriation is not racist in itself, but the hope is that artists understand what's going on behind it and are using it beyond fetishization. We can all do better.
Coppola, for me, is in the same boat as Wes Anderson and the Coen Brothers. I love their films but recognize that their point of view is very white. They depict what they know and "stay in their lane," which I can respect, but their artistic point of view is still worth dissecting. It's great that they are liberal and supportive of "the cause" but they just don't want to do the work. And we can point to them as an example of why there is systemic racism.
Also, the Dern character is a representation in fiction.
Just because you write a character a certain way doesn't mean you endorse her as the epitome of style and political correctness. There are white ladies who go nuts for East Asian trinkets, kimonos, bamboo screens, etc—those people literally exist. If Dern's character goes overboard with that aesthetic, maybe we're supposed to *notice* her going overboard with it. Not as a value judgment but just as character detail.
I don't know why people wonder what it says about Lynch rather than wondering what it says about the character.
It actually kind of reminds me of the Hollywood Code which demanded characters' immoral behavior be called out and punished by the end of the movie.
Today it's like you're not allowed to depict "problematic" humans (or humans who present themselves problematically to the world) without serving them some sort of comeuppance. Laura Dern's character would literally need to die tripping over her bamboo screen to satisfy the moralists (who would never claim to be moralists).
http://www.gq.com/story/tom-sturridge-talks-1984
Tom explains about that horrendous hairdcut lmao
Fucking Americans and their tendency to be OUTRAGED at everything though including Laura Dern of all people in Twin Peaks.
Grow up bitches!
I'm goddamn Asian and I coudn't care less.
Very well said, Nathaniel (re. Internet outrage). Trump would not be in the White House if it weren't for things like this. Hyperbolic, sure, but you take my point.
I honestly think a lot of this outrage-culture can be attributed to why we the Democrats lost this past election...we are not unified, we pick petty and stupid fights with each other rather than seeing our interests and common goals, and we have purity tests for those on our side so we can see who is more righteous and progressive than the other.
June has turned into the 'Let's shit all over Sofia Coppola month" and it's just so fucking annoying. I guess it was inevitable that we would turn on one of the 4 women EVER to be Oscar-nominated for best director. The hyper criticism we put on our very best and most interesting female directors (Ava Duvernay, Kathryn Biegelow, Coppola, etc.) is so unbelievably disappointing...and while this happens, the blandest, least inspiring male directors keep on getting work and doing their thing without any kind of criticism or backlash.
Mickey Rooney meant no harm in his portrayal of a Japanese man in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" but it was still racist. It's not about intent. It's about ignorance and rather than be dismissive of why some people think something is offensive, perhaps consider it and learn. What I would say is that this fetishization would not be a big deal if people of color were better represented. In a lot of films, tv shows and art, it does feel like other cultures are just window dressing.
The political correct police is out of control
Hunter and Romano are excellent in The Big Sick. The movie is good, but the whole time I was thinking, "Why can't this movie be about them?"
Steve -- well i am white. There's nothing I can do about that! But that sounds like "...therefore you're dismissed / invalid". Which is so ugly. I hope you can see that.
Everyone is so ready to point fingers and shame people and people naturally get defensive. Since I am on the side of diversity most of the time I just go "okay, this comes from a place of pain that I don't understand but can sometimes relate to as an oppressed minority (i.e. gay) and I'll respect it" Other times as in this week's "SOFIA IS RACIST!" mania I think people are only hurting the cause with hypersensitivity. And if we're going to start considering appropriation as racist we're going to have a whole heap of trouble from now until the end of time because literally every culture and country and community appropriates things. It's just part of how cultures evolve. There can't be "one thing that's only for black people" and "one thing that's only for Asian people"... the world doesn't work like that.
Raul - I agree with what you're saying... but that's not how the internet works. People aren't being treated as allies who could maybe learn a little more. They're being shamed when they misstep and called "racist". Big big difference. I have heard Sofia Coppola called a racist so many times this week! Shaming, i think, should be reserved for people with ill intent because the only thing shaming really does is get people to retreat into their own bubbles (the problem to begin with) or shut up (a huge relief with the bigots yes)... it doesn't actually motivate people to change.
Hayden -- yes, this. It reminds me of when Lars von Trier is constantly hammered for being a misogynist when he's telling stories about characters suffering from misogyny. He's closer to a misanthropist but whatever...
Aaron -- i know. I hate it. It's like everyone is a secret misogynist just waiting to attack any important woman if she missteps in anyway.
Outrage culture can be annoying and go overboard sometimes, but it was a neccesary antidote. For so long, minorities have been overlooked and just been told to accept that white hetrosexual male culture is the apex of humanity. And everyone just had to deal with it.
Fuck that bullshit!
It had to change. And while we will get some complaining about petty shit, "outrage cuture" is forcing change at an unprecedented rate. People in the entertainment industry who felt they had no voices or little chance of having any success now have a real chance.
Asian-Americans used to stay mostly silent on "whitewashing" issues. many of them went along with the whole "model minority" concept and didn't want to make any noise. But after so long of getting nothing but stereotypical roles (Dragon lady, tech geek, martial arts henchman/woman), Asian-Americans and actors of that background are speaking up. They are coming for the Scarlett Johanssons in Ghost In A Shell. And making studios think twice aboout their casting practices when these projects flop.
So on balance, the good outweighs the bad. White filmmakers in particular, who never had to even think of the concept of inclusive casting, now have to start educating themselves or risk backlash. I remember that Directors Roundtable where Steve McQueen asked all these white directors why they hardly ever cast people of color in their films, and all of them stayed silent. They don't have the privledge anymore.
As a person of color myself, who has loved film for decades, I can no longer stomach white supremacy in film and TV. I used to love watching all these things with white people being awesome, because that's all I knew and that's what was available to me. But it's a form of societal brainwashing that forces "others" to see themselves as less than. The paradigm needs to shift and outrage culture is getting the industry to shift at a faster rate than polite indignation.
Should we be Retro Angry at Annie Potts' character in "Pretty in Pink" for putting on different clothes?
"You're the reason Trump won" is a great shaming technique. Bravo!
I'm aware, and it sounds "ugly" but it's necessary. Just like men should quiet down, stay out of the conversation and listen to women, or the straight community with LBGTQ. White people need to learn to stay silent in certain conversations that it is not for them to lead or even chip in. There's nothing you can do about being white, that's not what I implied. But as a white cis-man, your outrage at the discomfort of minorities is what I was getting at. You're tired of outrage? Imagine how tired we are that once again our stories were erased from film, or an Asian woman like Nguyen to see her culture exoticized like that.
I didn't imply shame or anything bad with your ethnicity. You can't do anything about that, nor should you. What you can do is what you did in your reply, understand that many complaints come from a place you'll never understand or experience due to your race and that's why it wasn't your place to comment.
I'd like to point out there seems to be a misunderstanding of cultural appropriation, which has never meant to imply people and cultures can't exchange or learn from each other, much less that certain aspects belong to a culture. Cultural appropriation relates to power structures and is heavily intertwined with systemic racism. The easiest way to explain it is you do your homework, but then Becky does it and copies it exactly as you did it. You get a D, and she gets an A. It goes far beyond "well, Asians are the only ones who can use this haircut." And it's why the exoticization of Asian culture, particularly Asian women, comes into play, along with the underrepresentation of that culture in the media.
"Should cornrows be forbidden for white people?"
Fucking YES. If I can go the rest of my life without white people taking another one of our hairstyles and getting applause while we get "ghetto" comments for the same thing, I could die happy.
I mean, speaking as someone who just watched OG Twin Peaks for the first time and hasn't started the revival, there's no way anyway can say that season two Piper Laurie business isn't absolutely, absurdly, Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's levels of racist. Stupid, but still racist..
Also, I really liked Ira Madison's take on Coppola. It's astute, non-combative, and worth a read. http://www.thedailybeast.com/sofia-coppolas-the-beguiled-and-what-we-expect-from-white-directors
The thing that bothered me most of all about the Indiewire piece about Laura Dern's character on Twin Peaks is that it doesn't even consider for a moment that that choice was made for a reason. Consider reading a book and you're introduced to a character with details of their hair and their clothing and their apartment. These details can tell you so much about a character and the world in which they exist. I very much saw this for Dern's character - that she has *that* hair and wears a kimono-style bathrobe (I think the samurai influenced leather outfit is a stretch considering fashion often picks and grabs from other sources without necessarily deliberately referencing those sources) while living in that apartment told me a lot about who she is now. Just because the show doesn't outright say what she is well travelled or in the art world or what have you, these are things that I could read about her just from seeing her. That's what costuming and hair and production design are meant to do!
David Lynch is not above reproach. He has weird stuff with race. Why is the only black character a sex worker (albeit, one who in a few episodes was one of the more realistically and likably drawn characters) and his confusing use of Native American culture is far more ripe for discussion. I don't feel like it's out of line to call this stuff out, but I definitely feel like in this case it was a matter of drawing a veeeery long bow to fulfill a headline.
Everybody is making valid points. How about we just respect each others' opinions. That will bring a better and calmer result. Nodody is going to change another's mind with a blogpost.
I don't know enough about Twin Peaks to engage on that topic (though oh my god - all respect to Asian culture - but did someone just try to wipe Louise freaking Brooks from pop-icon status? The only reason pop icons are pop icons are because Louise freaking Brooks once existed!)
But re. Coppola / Beguiled - I feel like that's fair game. I agree Nathaniel that maybe it's not best practice for us all to hurl unrestrained vitriol at one of the only prominent American female filmmakers. And wow do I agree that this kind of unintentional racism maybe doesn't warrant the same intensity of outrage as, eg. oh hm I don't know: which prominent person/political party might be harming people of colour in horrific ways as we speak?
But that said - remaking a film without really contributing much that's new while actively removing its sole black character? Claiming you wanted to be faithful to the book, in which said black character is arguably even more prominent (even if problematic)? All this after a body of work exclusively built around over-privileged white girls? Including a career 'peak' built around how funny them Japanese are when compared to us laconic Anglo-Saxons? Yeah, sorry hon. I hate the term but this is like the storybook version of a 'teachable moment'.
Artists will have their interests and fixations, sure - and they shouldn't be restricted by demographics when it comes to exploring lives and characters. But actively wiping out all reference to people of colour when adapting texts that include them? That very much feels like crossing a glaring line.
Actually my mind went here first when I saw the new Defenders poster:
http://sortaryan.tumblr.com/post/162128075212/
This entire conversation encapsulates exactly what's wrong with white liberalism in this country, as it constantly fails to taken into account the nuances of racism as an institution. As far as many of you are concerned, it's all deliberate individual acts and singular attitutes instead of a complex system with varying degrees and levels. It's the current administration and your grandparents and the neighbor down the street, but not you [general, not specific] who uses the right hashtags and spouts the right slogans and wears the clever T-shirts -- despite the fact that you have no real friends of color and whiteness surrounds you at almost every turn, informing your world view in ways which don't even register until the damage is done.
No, Coppola didn't burn a cross or use the N word, but she made the conscious, qualified decision to omit the two characters of color from her adaptation, thus silencing their voices and prioritizing those of the white ones over theirs. By doing she she demonstrated that she values those white women's lives, stories, and experiences more, no matter what lame excuses she tells interviewers -- and that exemplifies white supremacy just as much as as any Jim Crow. Had she felt so strongly about this work AND doing justice to those character in a sensitive way, she easily could have caucused with any number of black female historians, writers, and filmmakers to craft a film which gave as equal a footing to them as everyone else. Who knows how much she could have grown as an artist and person? Who knows what amazing things could have come from her putting in that type of effort? Instead, she did what I've seen so-called allies [not assuming she's one] do, which is choose the path most comfortable and convenient for themselves.
Our sensitivity to issues of erasure and representation cannot end where our love for certain artists begins. We can't love Viola and call for more quality roles for Alfre, Angela, and Lupita one day then give Sofia a pass for her actions the next. Either we get it, or we don't. And please spare me the whole idea that women in positions such as Sofia's shouldn't be judged so harshly because non sequiturs about sexism. It's trotted out every time a prominent white woman does something racist or racially insensitive and reeks of anti-intersectional white feminism -- especially when the action in question usually affects women of color.
Bravo @ Steve_Man and Troy H. Very well said posts from you both.
Olivia -- i like the Daily Beast article too. It has solid issues with Sofia's film but at least the author is honest enough to admit that she would have been damned by critics either way she went on this adaptation.
(and i also agree that that Piper Laurie storyline in the OG Twin Peaks is absurd and gross)
Goran -- i have no problem whatsoever with "teachable moments". We need them. I just have come to believe that shame is not a great motivator. Especially when someone *is* teachable.
I find it humorous that we have gone as a society from being blatantly racist and horribly insensitive to the complete other end of the spectrum today of going overboard in outrage over every little perceived slight in regards to race.
"i dont know what to do about it anymore" -at this point take your own advice and file it under "things i dont get cause im white mb" and be an "adult" and move on lol. like none of this is effecting you, not really.
Idk know anything about the whole twin peaks thing but the whole "ugh idk what to do about all this /controversy/" handflapping is kinda dumb. Like its not.a big deal lol. People can point things out if it makes them uncomfortable. Theyre often not "outraged" just tired and up for a rant. Only like 5 people will care anyway. Everyone else will have ur reaction and twin peaks would never in a hundred years get cancelled or not do well because of /this/. The cards are stacked high on your end. It will be forgotten in less than a day (until some white guy brings it up with a newer "controversy" as an example of "PC culture"). U can disagree with this opinion piece, write a comment, @ them etc and thats a good thing. im personally open to that.
But im kinda tired of ppl being like ott "good god must we ruin everything". If its a white person writing about nonwhite concerns willy nilly thats a diff issue -go @them and control ur own lol. If its like a person of that ethnicity writing about their feelings about sth maybe theyre tired af and they actually have a point bc context matters. They write opinion pieces not expecting or even wanting people to stop watching the show but to go "yo we exist btw (mb include us, @us next time since this is gonna b a pattern)". Dont worry its like pulling teeth for us too. Bc a bunch of little things add up sometimes. Maybe we do have a chip.on our shoulder and maybe its for good reason. But like do u also tell poor people who complaining about rich people down to the pettier, smaller things to live in the real world? Lmao don’t worry we deffo live in the real world like we /know/ and at the same time some of us are legit gonna complain about everything along the way lol.
I understand that if i read this article i might also be like "lol theyre kinda over the top". But like at my core i still get why. I get why they they wrote the article and feel a certain way. Based on how u commented on this im not sure u "get it". like i get being bothered by lack of fact checking or maybe ur legit concerned that "exaggerating"/caring about the little things will like derail the "real issues" somehow. but somehow idt so. youre not listening to us. i forgot if it was about tilda swinton and her role in Dr. Strange or not but i remember u being bothered and then when people were like uh,,, well no we care about this and this is why, i remember u were like my stance isnt gonna change and mb lets stop. but then u like u continue with it so. idk to me ur bothered cause ur white. ur telling people to stop being bothered by the little things ~cause Life but ur literally bothered by people being bothered like what is up with that.
Sometimes dealing with white people is like hanging out with a richass friend who might b really nice and all but occasionally theyll say/do sth thatll make u raise an eyebrow like lol this person has never been poor and theyll prob never really understand what they just said but it will never matter for them. They will never even need to understand cause theyre never on the lower end of the stick. And if u point it out they get weirdly bothered too.
Tl;dr; its cool that u disagree and have an opinonn and imo i dont think u have to stay in ur lane or anything but like the way u dismiss stuff like this -i was bothered by. At the end of the day these guys r jabbing up.