So French.
So French.
And after this post I’m out... These capes out here are doing their favorites no favors.
#TeamBanks. The “white woman” stuff is a distraction from her main and very important point.
Preach it. Something I’m really taking from these comments is white people really don’t give a fuck about black culture unless it’s some shit they can cherry pick and appropriate. The Color Purple is such a big deal in black families. Even my mom, who is Jamaican, and an immigrant to this country sat down and made me…
She is a snake in a well fitting human suit.
I AM VINDICATED.
Is that why? Personally, I still haven’t forgiven him for The Man Show.
It’s neither. It’s “look over here.....away from Russia and treason.”
Did she not have the option to say no? Was she forced to do it? No, she thought it was fine.
I’m sure she and her mother saw the storyboards before she cashed the million dollar check. Hell, I’m a struggling commercial actor and I see story boards at auditions. My agents don’t even bother sending me out for certain companies because they know I won’t say yes. And I’m not rich! I just have integrity.
Everything she “is” is because of privilege. And now you want sympathy for her lot. I wish her the best as a human, and that is it. She remains responsible for choosing her life. I don’t need you to explain corporate campaigns or context, because my point is that their craven desires and stratagems don’t make you…
That’s just, like, your opinion, man.
There definitely needs to be a diversity of race, class, lived experience, etc to develop better creative, period. Even in a currently lily white industry though, I always hope that there is another singular black person somewhere in the ranks, giving every shitty, supremacist idea the hardest shame-inducing eye roll.…
He actually had a bunch of different sons. All of them were named Bobby and curiously were never in the same room at the same time.
Lovely. I’m basking in the schadenfreude.
I was going to say (as someone who has worked in advertising my whole career) that this seems exactly like an idea a client would come up with.
The best part about this being in-house is that they have to stand by it and double down because they don’t have an agency to blame/fire.