#daterasure

[jhenne-bean]

I feel like I get too annoyed every time I see someone somewhere says people who complain about whitewashing and privilege are butthurt. I mean I instantly unfollow them after following them for a long while and while liking everything else they post a lot. Is it bad to be so mad or am I really "butthurt" for instantly unfollowing them? And do you have any links to arguments against people who think that I'm "butthurt"?

Hahaha, hi!

If you wanted someone to tell you that "yes, you are way too butthurt call the waaaahmbulance" then you totes came to the wrong place. 

(Though personally, I usually don't unfollow instantly, if I've got the spoons to explain just why what they're doing is sucky, trivializing, dismissive, erasing, etc. Most days I have the patience/willpower to be an explainer. But some days I'm not, and it's nope!unfollow city. YMMV. If unfollowing them keeps your blood pressure from spiking, go for it, imo~)

As forrr links:My favorite is Moff's law. It's actually linked on my blog already.

Moff's Law

The entirety of Racebending.com is a pretty good resource too. (Both the tumblr account and the official website.)

Cracked.com is getting better at this, too. 

STFUConfederates made a good post.

I just like this one.

NEGL, when I'm *totally fucking over you* I rely on the Glossario. "The Oversensitive" sounds like what you need.

Derailing for Dummies is always fun.

I've also got the tags: #whitewashing, #daterasure, #datmarginalizing, and #this is why my media company needs to exist that might help! That last one is mostly a tag meant for my own archival & inspiration purposes, so if you're going to go tag diving, try out the other ones first, lol.

Me, I like to custom tailor my resources sometimes. Some people will react better to seeing Ebert tweet about Moff's Law than going to a "biased" source like Racebending. Some feel a bunch of Whitebros on Cracked.com publishing it makes things more valid. If it's a Disney!conversation, I never hesitate to smack someone with this quote. And some...some I just link to Derailing for Dummies and send them on their way. 

[jhenne-bean]

Ok we’ve been to ‘Total Fantasy World Inspired by Medieval Germany’ ‘Set in Mystical Medieval Scottland’ and now ‘Anderson’s Scandinavia’. They’re just going to the whitest places on earth on purpose now. It’s like a scavenger hunt for places that they can have plausible deniability for not including POC even as background characters.

Moniquill on Disney's Frozen

[jhenne-bean]

Keeping things the way they are because that’s just how you’re familiar with them is problematic, due to most everyone in comic fiction being a white, cis-gendered guy. It’s not an overtly racist distinction you’re making, which is why you seem to feel you’ve come to it without prejudicial racial bias (“similar conclusions can be reached by different arguments”), but it actually IS racist by way of exclusion. “Don’t do something directly racist, but also just keep things how they’ve always been” is racist [and heteronormative, and sexist, and cis-sexist, and so on] because “how things have always been” are white, cis-gendered, and male. Therefore, you prefer things to stay white, cis-gendered, and male. The world has changed, but you want these characters to persist as vestiges of an outdated, slanted view of society.

Comics, casting, and race. 

[jhenne-bean]

Hell, Captain America is close to The Falcon and they have been best friends for a long time. Yet you rarely see them shipped.

OF COURSE NOT.

The Falcon?Pffft. Don't you know that guy's Black? (No really, this is a very good -and telling- point.) 

[jhenne-bean]

Yep. It's just as bad as we thought.

Kristen Stewart as Ky

Garret Hedlund as Kaneda

Helena Bonham-Carter as Lady Miyako

Ken Watanabe as The Colonel

Kaneda is a bar owner in Neo-Manhattan who is stunned when his brother, Tetsuo, is abducted by government agents led by The Colonel.

Desperate to get his brother back, Kaneda agrees to join with Ky Reed and her underground movement who are intent on revealing to the world what truly happened to New York City thirty years ago when it was destroyed. Kaneda believes their theories to be ludicrous but after finding his brother again, is shocked when he displays telekinetic powers.

Ky believes Tetsuo is headed to release a young boy, Akira, who has taken control of Tetsuo's mind. Kaneda clashes with The Colonel's troops on his way to stop Tetsuo from releasing Akira but arrives too late. Akira soon emerges from his prison courtesy of Tetsuo as Kaneda races in to save his brother before Akira once again destroys Manhattan island, as he did thirty years ago.

[jhenne-bean]

For the love of God, what I wouldn't give for the next lead cast in a property where the casting director/person in charge attempts to justify problematic casting by saying "We would have cast them if they were black, white, spotted, or purple!" to actually dye themselves purple.

I want to so badly.

[jhenne-bean]

It’s like we are in a never-ending circle: Wedding movie, funeral movie, family reunion movie, crime movie, deep depressive movie that makes you want to jump off a building when the credits are through, slave movie, repeat.

Duane of Black Informant.com 

[jhenne-bean]

Arabian Nights Adaptation

By way of Racebending.com:

FilmDistrict has announced that it has acquired all U.S. rights to "Arabian Nights" from Inferno Entertainment. Chuck Russell ("The Mask," "The Scorpion King") is set to direct the 3D fantasy epic from his own script, co-written with Barry Ambrose. Liam Hemsworth, who will also star in "The Hunger Games," will star with Dwayne Johnson ("Fast Five") and Anthony Hopkins, currently co-starring with Hemsworth's older brother Chris in "Thor." According to the official synopsis: "Arabian Nights" is a visually stunning 3-D retelling of the classic adventure tale about a bold, young commander (Hemsworth) who joins forces with Sinbad, Aladdin and his Genie to rescue Scheherazade and save her Kingdom from the dark powers of an immortal Sorcerer. The film weaves together several beloved tales and characters into a wild magic carpet ride for all ages. "'Arabian Nights' is a fun family adventure in the tradition of the classic Ray Harryhausen movies,” says Bob Berney, President, Theatrical Distribution, FilmDistrict, in a press release distributed by FilmDistrict. “His mash-up of characters and legends into one story is a very cool concept.” A release date has not been announced.

Sauce.

I'll just be over here giving the #sideeye to the plot shoehorning in the unnecessary (or rather mainstream!mandatory?) White guy. And I don't quite remember Scheherazade needing any rescuing...

{Not to be confused with the yet-to-be-picked-up Arabian Knights. With a K. Apparently.}