yeah, as i said in the post:

Looking forward to boring the younguns with stories about how I saw L 7 at Mabuhay Gardens back in the day. (Unless it was the I-Beam. So many clubs.)

Nope. Just nope. In many industries but especially in film, there is such an under-representation of POC, or their visibility is tokenistic in many circumstances. It’s hardly like there’s a shortage of “white” roles without white actors playing POC characters. There is a definite difference between “going beyond race…

BUT CAN I TELL YOU ABOUT MY HAPA FRIEND’S FRIEND’S COUSIN’S DOG WALKER’S MOTHER’S COWORKER’S GYNECOLOGIST? SHE’S BLONDE IT’S ALL OK

What gets me is that this is an original screenplay by Cameron Crowe, right? If he wanted to, he could just make the character white! It’s not like there are fans of the original source material who will notice something, so just name her Allison Smith. It’s not like there’s anything in “Hula dancing expert with a…

Yup, there are literally none. Had to be Emma Stone. Just like Tiger Lily had to be played by Rooney Mara in Pan and Joel Edgerton had to be Ramses in Exodus. God, those casting people have it rough, eh?

For everyone commenting with anecdotes about their Hapa friends/relatives/dog walkers/random persons: NOT THE FUCKING POINT.

Yes, I understand.

You guys, it's just SO HARD to find Asian actresses? It's not our fault that acting doesn't seem like a viable career choice for POC, so we perpetuate a system where the laziest, easiest option is to just hire another white face. SO HARD.

You might want to hold off on that generalization. I’m half-white, half-asian and my daughter is a quarter asian, three-quarters white. She looks more asian than I do. I know other women and men in my life that are also three quarters and look more asian than emma stone does. Take a look at Keanau Reeves. He’s a…

I don’t think that’s necessarily true though, especially since her character is supposedly a quarter Asian, a quarter native Hawaiian, and half white. I’ve known people who were half Asian/half white who looked more Asian, and then some who looked more white. As you said, it’s genetics.

My favourite part of the feedback to all this is all the white people going, ‘It’s just a movie, it’s just acting why do you care’, but God forbid you cast a fictional superhero of another race, then it’s not ‘realistic’. Over it.

that is the most amazing flex on the kardashians

What you doing in here, Kris? Don’t you have some momaging to do?

WOW she looks like Jessica Lange!

Jesus, each of these stories should have ended with a scalding bowl of soup to the dick for the men involved.

I wonder who the mother is tho.

Time for the refuse cat.

Better idea:

Whoop-dee-fucking-doo! Two of the most shallow people in the world are having another fuck trophy.