Tag: diversity

glumshoe:

cenkrett:

glumshoe:

Representation is important because it allows people to see characters like themselves as heroes.

It also allows people to see characters unlike themselves as sympathetic and relatable. 

Stories teach us how to be human.

This is also why bad representation that demonizes already stigmatized groups is so dangerous; it reinforces the belief that those groups are not human.

A lot of people reblog this with some variation of “oh but tokenism is bad”. Yeah, sure. But if characters are depicted as sympathetic and relatable, they’re not tokens. That’s the point.

Tokenism isn’t “oh there’s too much diversity here”. Tokenism is “this diversity is shallow and features cardboard characters who exist only as representatives of their demographic, not relatable, sympathetic, or interesting beyond X trait”.

dustinkroppsbf:

i absolutely support march for our lives but please recongize how racism comes into play. the media never supported BLM like this, the public never did, and sure as hell not everyone marching today did. if you’re out there preaching for keeping kids safe from guns, u better not be forgetting all the black kids who have lost their lives to them from police.

Review: ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Delivers Weird, Fun, And Heartfelt Family Entertainment

epoxyconfetti:

Forbes reviews A Wrinkle in Time. Mostly box office analysis, with a little actual movie review thrown in, you know, because it’s supposed to be a movie review.

The single most telling paragraph (for me):

Of the 33 “rotten” reviews of the film at the time of this writing, 91%
were from white film critics, 83% of which were specifically white men.
Meanwhile, more than half of the positive reviews were from women
critics, and about 20% were from persons on color of both genders. You
can look at these numbers and pretend it doesn’t matter, pretend there’s
no message or lesson to be gleaned from it, but frankly such reactions
are simply further demonstration of a lack of self-awareness of – or,
more often, an overt refusal to listen and/or admit to – white
privilege and male privilege institutionalized even within journalism,
including corners of journalism that like to fool themselves into
believing their opinions are magically free of such problems that run
rampant throughout the rest of society and workplaces. 

White male reviewers hate it, everyone else says it’s wonderful. Best recommendation I can think of.

Review: ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Delivers Weird, Fun, And Heartfelt Family Entertainment

rootbeergoddess:

See I think A Wrinkle in Time just proves we need more female critics and more critics of color because…okay, let me see if I can explain this.

I saw the latest Blade Runner movie and I was bored to tears yet on the movies subreddit, everyone said I either didn’t get it or didn’t give the movie a chance. And when I gave my reasons as to why I didn’t like the movie, I was called close-minded. The movie wasn’t just dull but it had this creepy obsession with women yet didn’t respect women in any way and I found it ironic that a movie all about women and their rights to reproduce had the main character be a male. But obviously, I’m not smart enough to understand this movie.

Now with Wrinkle in Time, I enjoyed this movie and I do honestly feel like a lot of white, male critics are tearing the movie apart because they don’t get it or don’t try to get it. There is also a lot of callous talk concerning this movie.

“Oh, it’s too emotional! It’s too focused on self love!”

How…how are those bad things!?

Like I’m sorry but I am tired of every movie that is dark and gritty being hailed as something thought provoking and deep. Not every single piece of entertainment has to be depressing 24/7. I’ve also noticed that when it comes to movies that are dumb fun, if it doesn’t feature a man, it’s torn apart too. I liked Maleficent. It’s fun but if I like it, I’m an idiot apparently.

What I’m getting to is this. The job of the critic is to tell people if they would like a piece of media or if they would enjoy it. I’m able to see a movie and sometimes say, “This movie was not meant for me but someone else might like it.” I feel like a vast majority of today’s critics can’t do that and I think it’s important that critics be made up of more than just white dudes.

Did this make any sense?

perks-of-being-chinese:

“Lemonade was not made for me, either. As a Singaporean Chinese woman, I would be lying if I said I was familiar with the complex, myriad ways Beyoncé explores black female personhood, sexuality, and spirituality in the film. But as a non-American, non-white woman, what I am familiar with is appreciating art that is not and will never be made with me in mind. This is a process that white people are now struggling with more publicly than ever. It seems to me that much of the pain in this process comes from entitlement, which often stems from ignorance. I wonder: Do white people in the Western world understand just how much of global popular culture is tailored to their tastes and their histories? Do white people in the Western world know that, for non-white people who wish to participate in and discuss global popular culture, being well-versed in white cultural and musical history is almost compulsory? Do white people in the Western world know how laughable it is that they feel excluded just because a popular work of art dares to be less culturally legible to them?”

— Beyoncé’s Lemonade: A Lesson on Appreciating Art That Wasn’t Made for You | Consequence of Sound (via luxuriousvulgarity)

refinery29:

Hari Nef is helping to normalize transwomen’s bodies and identities in a really important way that if you’re cisgender you may not have thought about

Nef goes on to explain the difference between her photoshoot with Velencoso, versus how transgender women are typically photographed in fashion editorials. “images of trans femmes being loved rarely exist outside of pornography,” Nef wore. “We tend to be hyper-sexualized and objectified within the cisgender gaze. Either that or we’re dehumanized as scum or (just as bad) untouchable goddesses.”

Photos: Twitter/Hari Nef

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