July 2012
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Iman (who co-mods this blog)’s liveblogging of THG movie is the best thing ever.
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pityplease:
When you whitewash a character you are explicitly stating your vision of beauty is better, more natural, and more suitable for the audience of this fandom than whatever skintones or features were originally depicted.
When you whitewash you are quite deliberately letting those of that skintone, race, body type and facial features that we are not desirable— that we are imperfections...
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Anonymous asked: What other white passing actresses would you cast as Prim?
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Anonymous asked: Do you think finnick was forced to have sex with men too?
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the-cleverest-girl-on-fire asked: I think the worst part of the cast being mostly white is that people like me (biracial-Hispanic and black, and PoC in general) is that we've lost the chance to have a major movie franchise with a diverse cast, with people who actually look like us. The Hunger Games' films could've been the start of more prevalent diversity in Hollywood. To prove to studio execs that you don't...
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theravendesk:
so i got a couple of anons and some people on twitter commenting on my rage re: jena malone being cast as johanna mason and i figured i should say something that was organized and coherent and not me talking in caps. in particular i wanted to respond to the comment (which i have seen over and over again), that johanna mason was never explicitly described as a woman of color so she...
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konnichiwahabibisan asked: I can't believe people really think that a dark-skinned PoC can't have a white-passing sibling. PoC can have blonde hair and blue eyes. I just don't understand that argument at all.
Anonymous asked: do you know whether Q'Orianka Kilcher's blonde litter brother is her full brother or half brother? because if he's her full brother he could be used as an example of a non white-passing poc having a a white passing sibling
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Lionsgate executive #1: The Hunger Games trilogy is set in the far flung future! Very few characters have locked down physical descriptions! Even our lead heroine was ambiguously described! Seriously we have a WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES HERE!
Lionsgate executive #2: DUDE, I KNOW! LET'S CAST LIKE ALL WHITE PEOPLE!
Lionsgate executive #1: BRO!
Dudebro high-five as they float into the air, past the trees and clouds and people with common sense and disintegrate in the atmosphere because i hate them so much omfg
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Anonymous asked: As a POC who’s suffered economic hardship, I was disappointed when you replied positively when your follower crassly looked up sdr’s college demographics to wildly misrepresent her economic background. SDR's statements were unacceptably racist, but I think you detract from your message about oppression when you label someone who’s gone through economic struggle as...
sdr42890 asked: I want to apologize if I offended any Native Americans, that was absolutely not my intention. I also want to clear two things up since I saw someone made a post about it. I never said that ONLY white people or partially white people can be olive-skinned. I argued that white people could be, not only POC. And I never made any claim about when Italians started to be considered white, the point is...
Anonymous asked: i would like to ask all the people who say, "whitewashing isnt a big deal because talent matters not looks!" how they would have felt if katniss was played by a 50 year old black man with hot pink dreadlocks who played the part of katniss very very well.
Anonymous asked: you know what, racists? even if every single character in thg was described as being pasty pale, with light blond hair and blue eyes, there would still be whitewashing in thg. because theres no way that a future country set in what is currently the usa and mexico would be made up of just white people. frankly, the only way that white people people wouldn't be a very tiny minority is if panem...
Anonymous asked: "specifically calling for Caucasian actors" you should probs change that to "White actors"
erudite-the-smartypants:
If you’re seriously complaining that The Hunger Games cast is white-washed, that better actors (POC actors) could’ve been cast, that they’re not following along EXACTLY LIKE THE BOOK BECAUSE OMG KATNISS ISN’T TAN ENOUGH, and Johanna Mason has to be black (which it never says that in the book, so shut up), then how about you make your own THG movie. You can cast whoever...
sdr42890 asked: I'm well aware no one cares and that it isn't a discussion about class. I'm not looking for sympathy, I'm saying don't assume things about strangers. That person shouldn't have assumed that I MUST be a white, upper-middle-class, catholic, blah blah blah whatever else they assumed. They don't know anything about me other than the fact that I'm a half-Italian...
mustforgetlyrics asked: Throwing in my story since this sdr persokeys annoying me. My family has Native American blood, and it's most prominent in my grandfather. And he is /definitely/ olive skinned, as is all of my family (though my brother is lighter like my mom, and I look more like my dad). Olive skin is very much a Native American trait, and the fact that you used "red undertones" to describe their...
feminist-fury asked: To sdr42890: I'm part Native American (considering I'm Mexican, therefore there's some indigenous blood in me), (clearly olive-skinned) and I have yellowish undertones to my skin. HELLO, HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE BEARING STRAIGHT?! Asian descent is in Native Americans even though some may have more pigment in their skin than others. Also, I've seen people of color with olive skin...
moondevoured asked: "it isn't a Native American trait, although Native Americans can be olive skinned." ...I'mma just point this out and hope they catch their contradictory shit. Becuz you kno, you may have that skin color but no you lack that trait to have the skin color. Total logic right here /sarcasm.
sdr42890 asked: Whatever, I'm done trying to reason with you. I'm not trying to "win an award" for being not racist, I'm saying that she can be pictured as ANY race with olive skin and that some of them suffered in mining towns. But don't EVER assume shit about me. I grew up in one of the old miner's houses and came from nothing and worked my ass off in high school to get a...
queerfabulousmermaid asked: What do you think of Denzel as Haymitch? Cuz I just watched Safe House and he was giving me all of that jaded, survivor of tragedy, Haymitch-ness. He can go from suave to crazy in about two seconds which I think is flawless. Who did you think should have been Haymitch?
konnichiwahabibisan asked: I know I keep flooding your ask but what do you think of Gil Birmingham as Haymitch? He is definitely older but I think he can capture the destroyed and lonely mentor traits of Haymitch. Plus Gil is a fantastic actor who can make anyone connect with him.
Anonymous asked: Yeah, a history major at a highly religious parochial Catholic school with an 81% white student population and 88% white professor population. "Historically Black College/University? No." "Historically Tribal University? No." An upper-middle-class background is most prevalent among Duquesne students. She's a White Upper-Middle-Class Privileged USA Catholic Worldview Major,...
sdr42890 asked: Olive skin is not a southern European trait only nor is it a white trait only. We agree on that. But no, it isn't a Native American trait, although Native Americans can be olive skinned. Olive skin generally looks tan with a kind of yellowish undertone to it. Native Americans generally have a more reddish undertone. It's hard to explain but it's not the same skin color.
I hate when (other white) people treat “not being racist” as if it’s some prize that can be won. It’s not. It’s not something you suddenly get one day, and you’re all clear from racism for the rest of your life. You have to work at trying not to be racist. You have to listen to people of color. The second you say you’re not racist, you’re saying...
queerfabulousmermaid asked: This Sdr woman is a history major. Just let that sit in your mind for a little bit. I'm dying from laughter.
Anonymous asked: Also, NO one went into the movie theater thinking "Oh, Katniss is a tan Italian girl who is not considered white." Even if they did cast an olive skinned Italian, everyone would still look at Katniss and the rest of Seam as white and thus erasing the racial narrative and making another story where white people are the only ones who can survive the apocalypse and the only ones whose...
