Actually, Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Astroboy and Kimba the White Lion, and generally regarded as the father of Japanese animation, was known to have made dozens of sketches of naked women transforming into anthropomorphic animals.

Art major, took Cal 1 on a whim, aced the class, beat out a bunch of kids who were actually there for a reason in the class ranking. I would have gone on if I’d had room in my schedule (and if my advisor hadn’t vetoed the notion). It turns out that a lot of artists are bright young people who are capable of…

For the nth time, unconscious bias doesn’t require intent. It requires circumstantial evidence that allows you to induce a likely conclusion.

The implication is that only undesirable men screw fat women. Not THEM, of course; they’re perfectly respectable middle class white males. More like, niggers. And poor people. But mostly niggers.

The sad thing is how many movies staring animatronic/cg animals HAVE been financed while, say, Danny Glover’s extremely interesting concept for a Toussaint L’Ouverture biopic languishes. But then, maybe that has something to do with the fact that shitty, racist creatives with industry clout, like Ridley, won’t get…

Analyzing unconscious bias doesn’t require the assumption of intent. Studies have shown that black and Latino patients treated by white doctors have worse outcomes than white patients. The doctors were, of course, highly intelligent, and generally scored themselves low on self-measures of racism. However, after taking…

Actually, no. Bias does not have to take into account assumption or intent, because many biases are unconscious. All that’s needed is to analyze his and your assertions on their face and weigh the chances of bias being present based on those assertions within whatever context they’re made in. So, for example, there is…

You’re falling for a Just World fallacy. “The best person is always chosen” x “This person was chosen” therefore “This person was the best.” But that ignores 1) Primacy bias (you are more likely to choose the first option), 2) Familiarity bias (you are most likely to choose something you’ve chosen before), and 3)…

It’s the same problem, actually, because this is a single case in a pattern. If they picked her and then chose the race of the character, they had already biased themselves - beyond the bias that almost always exists in casting. Between those two factors and the ambiguity of “fitness” for a voice role, a black actress…

>You don’t pay money to have someone who sucks at the job, you pay for someone who is capable or can excel at it.

I do all of that, and still have the time to let blowhards like you know just how much your unintelligent wordspew is worth.

Let me then be the poor black guy who says I agree with everything this person has said.

>There may be blacks who are passed over or not being recognized, but lets be realistic, that has literally nothing to do with this situation. This is about who does a good job at voicing the character and he says the currently assigned person is right

There is no best. There is only, “skilled enough and suits the character.” The former is fairly objective but the latter is subjective, and it’s perfectly legitimate to argue that you’re going to have trouble finding a white acto with a voice that is suitably “black” (just as it’s legitimate to argue that a skilled…

Rahm Emmanuel is a character. There’s a reason why they based the character Eli Gold, from The Good Wife, on him. Bonus: the sociopath that is Ari Gold from Entourage is based on Rahm’s brother.

Tropic Thunder?

I think it’s funny when you see pictures of actual schools in Japan and realize that the ones in anime are the equivalent of the super-swank Beverly Hills High type schools that show up in our media, compared to what real American high schools look like.

Andrew Whitworth is enormous. That is the gigantic, heaving ass of a man who would be bear sark in ages past, cleaving men’s heads from their shoulders and downing many a barrel of grog.