January 9th
3:15 AM
3:15 AM
Taking a break from Tumblr…. going on hiatus
January 7th
12:16 PM
12:16 PM
Someone actually messaged me telling me to stop complaining about The Impossible cause they cast Thai extras and secondary characters -___-
And without that, I conclude my ranting about this fucking movie before I lose even more faith in humanity.
4:54 AM
shafooy asked:
I watched the movie yesterday wallah it felt like only white people suffered from tsunami
This.
2:33 AM
Yesterday we went to see the Hobbit and an old man around 70 came and sat down in the row in front of us. He shook hands with the boy sitting next to him and told him that this was his favorite book when he was a teen and he was so excited to see it on screen. We could hear him laugh and mutter things through out the movie, I don’t think anybody in that room was as excited as him.
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2:26 AM
Anonymous asked:
your argument isn't justified, that's why. if you're gonna be critical, you better have a legitimate reason. the movie would have been just as good with thai or spanish actors. to say that it was a racist movie just for using white actors is RACIST. lol.
I’m not trying to insult the movie or the spanish family that were caught up in tsunami. The issue I’m being critical about is the notion that most movie producer at hollywood have this incorrect notion to assume that a western audience needs white protagonists to act as a buffer and introduce the east. An eastern protagonist (PoC) are never considered.
Just like a lot of people misunderstand cross-gender identification and assume that if the hero is a girl that boys wont want to watch the movie. Which is wrong by the way just look at the Hunger Games and Kill Bill boys can watch movies with girl heros.
My argument is that people from the west (mainly white) should be able to watch a movie starring native Thai people about the Tsunami and feel just as emotional as they did for the white family. Hollywood doesn’t even give them the option.
You said it ’the movie would have been just as good with thai or spanish actors’ so why did they not cast a Thai family? why a white one? thats what I’m being critical about the fact that the casting director chose not to cast a Thai faimly. It was a choice, and it was deliberate.
Me pointing out that fact shouldn’t be considered racist. It saddens me to hear you say this because this is an important issue. And when people of color like myself point out the discrimination we see in movies where we are ignored or our plight is somehow considered less emotional or important than that of a white man we are called out for being reverse racists.
Plus the scene in the movie where the white family starts to organize the refuges and start setting up shelters was an atrocious portrayal of the ‘mighty-whitey’ trope where it makes it seem that the only reason those people survived was because the white family was there to take charge and help them. like Thai people couldn’t help themselves, they need guidance or else they’d forget to build shelters and find food. And if you cant tell thats thats racist then thats one you buddy.
January 6th
11:42 PM
11:42 PM
"I have not yet unlearned the esoteric bullshit and pseudo-intellectualizing that school brainwashed into my writing..How to begin again. How to approximate the intimacy and immediacy I want…
the white man speaks: Perhaps if you scrape the dark off your face. Maybe if you bleach your bones. Stop speaking in tongues, stop writing left-handed. Don’t cultivate your colored skins nor tongues of fire if you want to make it in a right-handed world.
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I think, yes, perhaps if we go to university..perhaps if we give up loving womyn, we will be worthy of having something to say worth saying. They convince us that we must cultivate art for art’s sake…Achieve distance in order to win the coveted title ‘literary writer’ or ‘professional writer”…The Third World womyn revolts: We revoke, we erase your white male imprint. When you come knocking on our doors with your rubber stamps to brand our faces with DUMB, HYSTERICAL, PASSIVE PUTA, PERVERT, when you come with your branding irons to burn my PROPERTY on our buttocks, we will vomit the guilt, self-denial, and race-hatred you gave force-fed into us right back into your mouth…For the Third World woman who has, at best, one foot in the feminist literary world, the temptation is great to adopt the current feeling fads and theory fads, the latest half truths in political thought, the half-digested new age psychological axioms that are preached by the white feminist establishment. Its followers are notorious for ‘adopting’ womyn of color as their ‘cause’ while still expecting us to adapt to their expectations and their language."
the white man speaks: Perhaps if you scrape the dark off your face. Maybe if you bleach your bones. Stop speaking in tongues, stop writing left-handed. Don’t cultivate your colored skins nor tongues of fire if you want to make it in a right-handed world.
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I think, yes, perhaps if we go to university..perhaps if we give up loving womyn, we will be worthy of having something to say worth saying. They convince us that we must cultivate art for art’s sake…Achieve distance in order to win the coveted title ‘literary writer’ or ‘professional writer”…The Third World womyn revolts: We revoke, we erase your white male imprint. When you come knocking on our doors with your rubber stamps to brand our faces with DUMB, HYSTERICAL, PASSIVE PUTA, PERVERT, when you come with your branding irons to burn my PROPERTY on our buttocks, we will vomit the guilt, self-denial, and race-hatred you gave force-fed into us right back into your mouth…For the Third World woman who has, at best, one foot in the feminist literary world, the temptation is great to adopt the current feeling fads and theory fads, the latest half truths in political thought, the half-digested new age psychological axioms that are preached by the white feminist establishment. Its followers are notorious for ‘adopting’ womyn of color as their ‘cause’ while still expecting us to adapt to their expectations and their language."
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Gloria Anzaldúa, “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers” from The Gloria Anzaldua Reader
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