True, but the responses would be sympathetic. As it is, no one cares.

Because they hate her here.

This comment desreves more stars.

This is way too reasonable a comment for this crowd.

Seconded the other comment. A lot of people who have rules like this are themselves poor or just barely above poor. Not everyone, of course, but quite a few and this is away to distance themselves.

Being very familair with Chinese politics and history, I’m going to have to disagree with your disagreement. See the poster above who studies Chinese film. There is no neutral portrayal of Tibet for the Chinese.

Yep, exactly. And quite honestly, casting a Japanese actress who is known to be a) an international sex symbol and b) good enough (just), acting-wise and c) can speak English perfectly and d) body similar to ScarJo’s body, which is perfect for Ghost, is going to be really freaking hard.

The issue of whitewashing aside, this may be totally valid. It likely would have banned in China if they lead cast were Tibetan. If the lead were Chinese, people would bitch about it, and rightly, because it’s not like China hasn’t done a great job already trying to erase Tibetan people and Tibetan culture. Cast…

All the Japanese actresses suggested thus far completely have the wrong look—way to willowy, delicate and not curvy or viscerally sexy enough. If your only criterion for casting is that they should be ethnically Japanese, that’s kind of hilariously bad in it’s own way. Johansson actually fits this part way better, as…

it is relentless self-deconstruction*

I think this is a serious problem with social justice as a whole right now. It’s become really self-destructive for the people engaging in it, and destructive for people outside of it when we see them as not behaving in ways/holding opinions we think they should for their assumed “privilege” level. I mean, it…

Ah, totally fair! I have wide shoulders too, but a small rib cage. So I also have to size up in shirts for my shoulders sometimes. I’m still trying to figure out this whole bra thing.

I guarantee, if you are a small chested woman (because you likely have a smaller frame) you are wearing the wrong band size. I used to think a bra just kind of sat on your boobs and that was that, but then I found The Little Bra Company and got measured at Nordstrom. I discovered I am not, in fact a 34A but a 30B/28C.…

I guarantee, if you are a small chested woman (because you likely have a smaller frame) you are wearing the wrong band size. I used to think a bra just kind of sat on your boobs and that was that, but then I found The Little Bra Company and got measured at Nordstrom. I discovered I am not, in fact a 34A but a 30B/28C.…

Religious and cultural background absolutelty matter because they are explantory factors for behavior. Period. You can isolate these things as causal factors without being a racist, Islamophobic asshole, but ignoring the fact that numerous women were sexually assaulted by a specific group of men because that fact…

Obama Kush has to be amazing.

Wow, I read Kamp Dush as Damp Kush and was super confused for a moment.

Ha. Nah! I think it’s OK to care about language in that case when it’s so egregious. But maybe that’s what an Old would say.

I would throw in the towel on this one; the misplaced condescension in the responses indicates that these people are totally hopeless. I have a background in lit. too and these people clearly don’t Get It (Wow, it’s almost like this medium has its own technically incorrect rules, and I’m adapting my writing to it).…

eh, but usually these people are the brightests cookie in the toolshed (yep, ha) and don’t even do a full ellipsis, probably because they don’t know any better..