July 2012
90% of my Pixar criticism is 'woulda, coulda,...
feministpixar:
So I see all these complaints that it was historically accurate for Brave to not have people of color; this has already been addressed and debunked (i.e. the existence of Moors in that estimated time period vs. the historical accuracy of Merida’s corset and the movie plot), but all I can think is that it would have made a fantastic learning opportunity for the older audiences if...
thehumblearticulatefeminist asked: How do you feel about Jenna Marbles?
mykillerrawr asked: I'm new to your blog and also the term POC. If you don't mind explaining.
loish asked: I know this is late, but this is in response to those who say including POC in tangled/brave is 'historically inaccurate'. right now i'm making art for a project related to the CBBC show 'leonardo', a fictionalized show about teenage Leonardo da Vinci. It has tons of POC in it, playing main characters (machiavelli) as well as side characters and extras. as far as i can...
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I’m doing serious business right now but I just wanted to like put this out there
so I didn’t even bother addressing that girls-your-boobs-belong-in-your-shirt meme because it was too ridiculous, and everyone else already did so I didn’t feel like you were missing out on reblogs of that
but correct me in my wrong, I saw another one of hers come up (with some funny commentary by...
wankerspanker asked: About you saying that Disney chose scotland as a location, have you ever considered that they didn't chose it because of its lack of POCs but rather because the scots women are usually represented as strong, beautiful, independant women and it would be a perfect place for a girl like this? And a girl that has incredibly realistic problems with her mother? Brave has to be one of the most...
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allysaurus92:
darklynoon:
subconciousevolution:
I came across this today… felt like it applied to my tumblr, for obvious reasons. haha
Image: from blog… shirt Disney was selling to girls. Gaah
because in every little girl there is a fully developed and complete disproportionate princess waiting to come out? disney, that’s fucking disturbing.
What. the. fuck.
remember this? Just a...
I hate being an immigrant-person-whatever-I-am in this country
like just let me work here
I will do the work
and then go back
so is this not perfect for all parties???
:’( don’t make me go baaack!
blah I’m going to take a nap and then get on with my day, sorry but I will not be tumbling as much today/tomorrow/etc (and by this I mean, Feminist Disney “break” where I still continually blog haha), bad timing for all the discussions I guess but I have some real world things to take care of- my visa is going to be expiring so I need to find a job quick so I can apply for...
clearawaythebarricades asked: I was wondering where the line for cosplaying as a character not of your race is drawn? For example, my little sister's favourite animated character EVER is Audrey from Atlantis and has a go-to Audrey costume for parties, but we're not hispanic. (Also, hi, love your blog. You've really encouraged me to see things I take for granted through a more critical lens.)
kamidoodles asked: As a darker-skinned POC, I have a lot of trouble cosplaying "white" (or pale) characters because I get shit for "not looking right". I am not going to argue reverse racism, but I get annoyed when white people play Characters of Colour because if I did the same thing with a white/pale char I'd get shit, and they don't. If you're going to insist on doing it though,...
emergencycocktail asked: While I definitely do not condone religion bashing, I have to say her apology about using the phrase tranny was entirely legitimate. She said herself it was used in ignorance at a time when she was not aware of the implications, and she removed the video and apologized for saying it. As for her words on Islam, while it does not make it okay in the slightest, I will say that I know it stems from...
candy-cactus asked: This isn't trolling, this is somethign I've been thinking about for a while, but haven't really decided onanythign just debated by myself- What do you think of racial representation in other countries' media? The country I'm really thinking about South Korea, where everyone inthe media is Korean (and very skinny and pale) and when I say everyone I mean everyone. My friend...
magusthepropagation asked: honest question here; what exactly did Laci even do do start getting all this hate? all I've heard about were her using the word 'tr*nny' and saying 'Islam isn't a very feminist religion' (or something of the sort), both in really old videos. is that all that happened? it seems like people may be overreacting a bit if that's the extent of it :/
princessofpyke asked: sadly, your probably one of the few white feminists who hasn't glorified Laci Green's situation. I agree death threats are horrible and no one deserves them, but NO ONE is acknowledging the great white privilege all this is oozing. The fact that a load of Q/TPoC, PoC have faced similar and worst situations and they have never had jezebel write a post on them or the whole tumblr/internet...
penguinsledding asked: This is about complying, but not race - as an overweight woman, I've always felt uncomfortable with cosplaying. I see a lot of cosplayers who don't have the perfect body (including skin tone) get hated on, and sometimes I worry about cosplaying as thin characters because of that. It's annoying because there are almost NO overweight characters who are actual GOOD characters -...
ghastlii asked: For the girl with the cosplaying problem: I'm a curvy black girl and I cosplayed as Ness for Supercon. Everyone thought it was adorable and a comedian pulled me into the room during his routine just so he tell me that I was awesome. So, in a nutshell, it would be nice to have some darker anime and manga and game characters, but at the same time your friends need to realize that cosplaying is...
queerlittlemermaid asked: I think I get what you're saying. I guess I don't think much of it because I don't think it's a big deal to be able to "swap" colours [as people can do it with eye colour and contacts these days], but I can see how that could imply white superiority too.
