Feb 12
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Pam Bondi is Unqualified, Unprofessional, and Unhinged.
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Hollywood needs to stop licking Brad Pitt's balls becos what do you mean that dumb F1 movie got an Oscar nom for Best Film and not Jafar Panahi or Park Chan-Wook's films? 🤡
i hate using this wording cuz it sounds like a yt clickbait title, but the downfall of tadc was so fast, that i feel it didn't even grow legs. goose just gave birth to that thing, and it writhed around before giving a death rattle (sorry for the graphic description LMAO).
tadc went from being this knock-out pilot upheld as a shining beacon of indie animation to releasing a passable second episode, two pretty alright ones, and then more middling ones that attempt to make us sympathize with an actual bigot who wasn't even the most interesting character.
that's not even touching on the controversies the cast and crew handled absolutely terribly!
again, not to sound like a dramatic yt clickbait title, but tadc just reeks of white mediocrity to me. aside from bits and pieces of the show (intermission time, the orchestral theme, alex rochon's performance as caine, to name a few), it is a mystery to me how this watered-down, recycled, white, quirky millennial piece of media blew up to unimaginable heights. i remember the tiktoks from around the time the pilot came out calling tadc an "industry plant steven universe tumblr chronically online" type of show because everything about it was so overdone.
the trajectory is truly something else.
I don’t think it’s dramatic! I don’t think it’s dramatic to say that at all!
I feel like as we’re now having these intense and serious discussions about the show and the people involved, I really want to point out the fact that, at least for me, the mediocrity is what indicated the racism, not the other way around. The mediocrity is actually the surface layer of the racism, and it’s something you’ll often find to be the case in media. When you get into the minds of these people and examine the decisions they make, you start to realize that a lot of it stems from an internal bias that could only be attributed to systemic issues, most often racism.
The actions of the VAs aside, the limits of the character designs, the inability to have a confrontational moment, and refusal to properly expand on any of the confrontation that is brought up within the course of the show all indicate mediocrity.
A failure to consider other perspectives.
An ignorance in handling topics of mental health, abuse, and trauma.
A lack of experience that could only coincide with refusing to interact with certain groups of people.
Yup, it probably could’ve been great, but the extent of what they’ve done shows me this was doomed from the start.
Dickbabstards need to hang up the idea that antis don't like the ship or say they are ugly looking together out of ableism. The wheelchair(that she isn't even in 90% of the time anymore) has nothing to do with the fact that they don't look good together. This is what I mean when I say Babs fans are always trying to guilt trip people and bend people to their will. She looks plainly next to him, and if I'm reading and looking at fantasy, I want it to be visually appealing.
Don't even get me started on the whining about misogyny. No, not everyone is impressed with a white woman who would realistically be very average in her universe, get Mary sued to death and put on a pedestal by every character in her presence. There is no universe where I'm going to believe Barbara Gordon would have it like that. There is no reality where it isn't obvious to me these are white writers making white mediocrity the standard.
“We’re trained to be like, ‘If I’m not exceptional, I won’t be loved.’ Certainly, I think that was my thing,” Gatwa shared. “So, yeah, I think I’m just learning now like, ‘Oh, you are allowed to be loved.’ You don’t have to be excellent or aspire to that term, ‘Black excellence’. What the hell?”
He continued, “There’s so much white mediocrity that gets celebrated, and Black people, we have to be absolutely flawless to get half of [that] anyway. So, I’m slowly training myself out of that and being like, ‘No shit. You deserve love just for existing.’ And that has taught me to be a lot more loving as well, in a weird way.”
The 'Doctor Who' actor, who has faced backlash as the show's first Black lead, is opening up about his struggles with acceptance.
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edit - adding link to original article here.
From Sex Education to Barbie through to his fresh, titular role in Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa is a thoroughly modern British screen star. More
Every time I even try to forget about how white this app is, I am snapped back into reality by y'all saying, "Taylor Swift is better than [insert black artist here]" and "I should be allowed to be racist towards black people because *one* was mean to me" Please god release these people from the shackles called white supremacy/racism cause what they fuck is going on?
hey i read your list of media you personally did not like for various reasons, and some of them were listed as "white queer media" as being one of the reasons why they sucked, which got me thinking: what DOES define "white queer media" exactly? besides y'know, being queer media made by and for white people that more often than not is extremely ignorant to racial issues and biases present in their own writing. okay wait that actually defines it pretty well, but what other problems plague "white queer media" to its core? what else can creators try to learn and avoid from it? i'd also like to know! sounds like a topic ripe for interesting discussion!
Well your summary hits the nail on the head. From that description, there's quite a lot of problems that tend to pop up in "white queer media".
The most obvious one to me is that "white queer media" borrows one of the most annoying tenets of white supremacy in my opinion, and that is White Mediocrity. A lot of these types of media are often bland, repetitive, and not very groundbreaking when it comes to design or storyline. Usually, these medias tend to rely on what they can make you FEEL rather than what they can make you THINK about, and while thinking and feeling can seem the same in this discussion, there is a key difference.
When we talk about a FEELING we are talking about a process that is already occurring, something that was there before and is now being invoked. Most white queer media, at best, relies a lot on nostalgia and generalized discussions of topics that can apply to a large majority of people. It invokes a FEELING that many people can relate to and apply their own thoughts towards. At worst, this often causes people to be incapable of recognizing valid criticisms of their shows because they have their own individual narratives for them based on personal feelings.
There is nothing inherently wrong with a media that helps you to FEEL. Ideally, the best forms of media allow for both THINKING and FEELING, but White Queer Media tends to go only in one direction.
When we talk about a media that makes you THINK, we are talking about introducing a NEW PROCESS to the mind. The goal of this new process is to help you examine your feelings, and this is where we strengthen our ability to empathize and connect with one another. This is where critical thought occurs.
I am not Jewish in any way, but when I watched Long Story Short for the first time I experienced a lot of new thoughts. It explained Judaism and the culture of being Jewish, in a way that I had never really seen before, and those thoughts are what birthed new feelings. Those feelings are what allowed for me to better understand and absorb the messages of the show, and those feelings stayed with me a lot longer past watching it.
At the same time, there were many aspects of Long Story Short that brought up older feelings within me, especially when they discussed trauma and the way one internalizes their environment. This was also good, this was very comforting.
While Steven Universe provided me with a lot of feelings, it did not give me any new thoughts, so it did not stick with me for long. I notice that White Queer Media tends to have such a pattern, and that is what is often frustrating. It is a media genre that does not push people to leave their comfort zone. It asserts itself as being only for one group of people to understand, and while the INTENTION is queer audiences, the EXECUTION excludes quite a bit of BIPOC as well. And why is this? Well a lot of white people dive into queerness to escape their whiteness, and they don't think to unpack it.
Being white is a race, but it shouldn't exist. It is a social construct, a social class even, as it pertains to America. Class is manmade, but that doesn't make it any less real. It becomes real when it is repeatedly enforced over a long period of time. While being queer IS NOT a social class, a lot of white people treat it as such because it is usually their first introduction to classism as a concept other than gender or income. Even then, the rules for how these classes are treated is still dictated by racism...
I bring up this point because a lot of White Queer Media tends to try and fail to do the classism/genocide allegory incessantly, and I suspect that this is why.
TL;DR: Unpack your racism. Leave your comfort zone. Stop talking about genocide if you don't understand it.