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mansplained:

Geena Davis relayed this story at a lecture she gave at my university on the lack of decent female representation in children’s media. She’s been leading research on the subject to present it to studio executives and get more respectable female characters in shows.

She presented scores of terrible statistics about what little girls watch on television and recreate themselves at the Writer and Animators Guild. One of the executives in the audience raised his hand to comment, “We’d put more female characters in films, except that they’re so boring.”

(via keppps)

glitterlion:

So you have Seth MacFarlane sexualizing 9 year old Quvenzhané Wallis with the joke:

just to put it into perspective how young quvenzhane wallis is, it will be sixteen years before she’s too old for george clooney

You have The Hollywood Reporter feeling the need to publish the “brutally honest” ramblings of an Oscar voter who stated that they wouldn’t vote for Quvenzhané because they couldn’t pronounce her name.

I also don’t vote for anyone whose name I can’t pronounce. Quvez—-? Quzen—-? Quyzenay? Her parents really put her in a hole by giving her that name — Alphabet Wallis. The truth is, it’s a very sweet but immature performance from a 9-year-old. I’ve directed children. They probably did a thousand takes and put the best ones together.”

And it’s not limited to this one person.

And you have the Onion calling Quvenzhané Wallis a “cunt” because that’s apparently what everyone is thinking.

And I’m sure you can imagine what other lovely tidbits are floating around the interwebs from the white folks who outraged at the fact that she’s going to be playing Annie. Oh wait.

As Quvenzhané becomes more and more prominent in the media, the vitriol and ridiculousness will grow and become more prevalent and more targeted. I can only imagine what things I could find if I actually devoted time to trolling the internet or what words will be written when promotional media starts coming out for Annie.

And we’re supposed to believe that their isn’t an attack on Black women and girls in this country/world.

uh huh. okay.

(via arobynsung)

missingdinosaur:

in 2012, frank ocean came out as bisexual and laura jane grace came out as trans and began her physical transition

these were both majorly important steps for queer recognition

yet an organization gave an award to katy perry (sp?) for being the most inspiring to lgbt youth because of her song “firework”

just in case anyone missed that bullshit

(via twoxheartedxdream)

Or poisoning her.

Or just in general torturing her.

Can we please STOP pretending that that’s okay just because she happens to be on the wrong side of this narrative?

In fact I am over this show torturing women IN GENERAL. It wasn’t fun when they kept hurling Gwen in jail and threatening to execute her, either. It was ESPECIALLY not fun when Morgana was the one orchestrating it, because oh my god can we not have a single female/female relationship on Merlin where ONE OF THEM ENDS UP DEAD OR INSANE?

I am sick of seeing women suffer so men can be heroic. I am sick of seeing women suffer so men can have character development. I am sick of seeing women suffer in lieu of having character development themselves. It’s cliched, it’s problematic, and it makes me feel faintly sick. I would like something else to watch, please. 

humanpieceoftoast:

sugarbooty:

You know what’s weird? Telling people you are going to a comic con and having them reply “Oh that must be tough, huh? All those geeks and weirdos everywhere? Hee hee hee haw! Be careful!”

I don’t know how to respond to these people, so usually I say something like “Well, lucky for me, I fit right in with them”, or sometimes I just roll my eyes. But now that my heavy rotation of comic connery is over, at least for a little while, I want to break this down and talk about what a stupid, dumb stereotype this is to have about Comic Con attendees.

Yes, people go to comic cons dressed up from head to toe, they stand in long lines for hours and share lots and lots of random facts about their obsessions with other people, they pay loads of money for artwork and signatures, and they pose for photos with complete strangers. I am completely unsure how this is any different than sports fanatics who also stand in line for hours and spend tons of money on tickets, who paint their half naked bodies from head to toe in their team’s colors, who hoot and holler and yell and fight and participate in the sports “fandom”, who quote random statistics of their favorite players, and cry when their teams win or lose.

This is the exact same level of appreciation shared by people who consider themselves to be fans of a particular thing, yet one group is heralded and the other is ridiculed. I have met and befriended tons of jocks and sports fans who are as socially awkward as the stereotypical “geek” that attends comic con, and I have met some brilliant and articulate fanpeople with whom I have enjoyed great conversations. My hope is that one day, I will tell someone that I am going to Comic Con and the typical response will be “Really? I’ve never been. Is it cool?” I will say “Yes. Yes. It is exhausting, crazy, bizarre, and totally cool.”

Comic cons are WAY more fun than any baseball games I have attended. I mean, aren’t baseball bats just less impressive light sabers anyways?

#get outta my face talkin that trash #creating an us vs. them #you must be so embarrassed when i tell you i love going to comic cons and then you feel all ashamed #and i don’t change the subject #i let your own ignorance rest in the air #and permeate #like a stale fart #that we both know #was YOU

#if you are into ANYTHING #including sports #and you have the audacity to snigger at comiccon goers #then you want to take a step back and look at yourself

I have this exact problem with my family. My sister is seriously into hockey, and regularly goes to big music festivals - but she (and my mother) mock comic cons and make fun of me going to them CONSTANTLY. It’s SO irritating. Just because it’s outwith their particular realm of experience for what’s ‘normal’ to them, I must be a complete weirdo. If I start questioning what my sister thinks is so awesome about music festivals I immediately become the bad guy, woe betide me for ‘bullying’ her, but it’s okay to laugh in my face when I try to explain how excited I am about doing a new cosplay? Ugh.

(via doylefan22)

isaia:

scandalouistomlinson:

This has been squicking me out an awful lot since it happened. 

You don’t draw “fanart” for tragedies.
You don’t go about making logos out of tragedies based on pop culture. 

The Aurora, Colorado shooting is truly horrific. We have been hearing too much about gun violence and shootings on the television lately and it is upsetting to hear about such tragedies happening. This story in particular is interesting because of the pop culture stigma behind it. The killer’s connection (albeit personal) to the Joker, where the event took place… That shouldn’t be the focus, though. The focus should be about finding out why he did it, how he obtained those materials so easily, and aiding the victims and families of the victims involved. 

It is the pop culture attachment that has been causing a lot of unsettle with me, though. I have seen countless fan arts, Batman related ideas and “signal boost” posts, logos and aid campaigns creating images using Batman related designs… and that feels like the absolute last thing that should be the focus here. 

If the theatre where the shooting had happened would have been for “Ted” or “The Notebook” would we be seeing people drawing pictures of Ted flipping off a shooter or giving flowers to a headstone saying ‘To The Victims Of The Ted Shooting’ or Rachel McAdams reprising her role to visit shooting patients in hospital? 

No, we wouldn’t.  

So why attach that to this tragedy - and instead of coming up with really tasteless drawings, terrifyingly offensive text posts and tweets, and PTSD-triggering concepts like Christian Bale visiting the recovering children as Batman a rest and focus our energy on helping a community rebuild and educating people on the nature of shootings and gun violence. 

This is really informative and helpful. A point that I really needed to fully understand.
Thank you.

(via vilecrocodile)