OK, yes. You CAN have weak Women of Color characters. Because everybody's just human. BUT why is it that the weak characters are CONSISTENTLY people of color? Why is it that characters who are people of color are consistently shallow (in terms of characterization) and one-dimensional?
If you argue that JK Rowling made…

I think we can acknowledge the ways that JK Rowling got it right, while also accepting and discussing the ways she didn't. If we never talked about this at all, racism in entertainment would never get any better, even unintentional racism.

Just throwing it out, if she's supposed to be Chinese, "Cho" is a somewhat uncommon (but not unheard of) transcription of what is also written as Zhou/Chou. Chang is also a uncommon but not unheard of transcription for what is also written as Zhang. And there are people named Zhang Zhou/Zhou Zhang. And it's also a…

OK, can we not focus on the name/country? The fact remains that there IS implicit racism in books (not just JK Rowling's).

I don't think that's the same thing at all. Madonna incorporated religious symbols as critique. She was aware she was being disrespectful. She also knew enough about the tradition in question (in this case, because it was the one she was raised in) to understand how she was using its symbols and what the effect would…

Umm. No. Appropriating and or making fun of christianity doesn't compare to that of hinduism due to the sheer power and influence of the church.

we're not very good at recognizing when we're done eating when the food's still in front of us.

It just emphasizes the differing perspectives people have regarding men and women who are sexually active. Regardless of the fact that her costar is a well-known porn star, she's the slut, the whore, is loose, and clearly must demonstrate physical characteristics that confirm this fact.

It really is a terrible way of reading comments.

UNC, I'm just going to leave this here:

I mean, I'm a girl (I'm not a girl), and I literally could not have described how easy it is to post something that isn't real on the internet.

Dude you are pathetic.

Yes, because my paying taxes to an abstract government entity barely related to my bodily autonomy so that I can live in society and not in a fucking hut in the woods is exactly the same as women openly participating in and refusing to acknowledge the unabashedly misogynistic aspects of a religion which enforces a…

The issue here is separating women's religious belief from a patriarchal and misogynist institution. Can you be a Muslim feminist? One could justifiably ask if you can be a Catholic feminist or a Mormon feminist. How much agency can a woman be said to have in a religious culture that pretty much denies it?

I think comparing Shevchenko with an obviously thoughtless tourist is a bit much. There may be a problem as old as colonialism going on here, and some of the arguments for Femen are unfortunately ethno-centric... but she has a point when she says: "...but don't deny millions of sisters who have fear behind their…