Yeah, it does seem ageist. There are people much older than me who are continuing to pioneer both technology and social media while I'm still having trouble figuring out where The Zuck has moved the privacy settings on FB to. :(

"The Nazis considered the Slavs as Non-Aryan Untermenschen ("sub-humans") who were to be enslaved and exterminated by Germans.[6] Slavic nations such as the Ukrainians, Czechs, Slovaks, Bulgarians and Croats who collaborated with Nazi Germany were still being perceived as not racially "pure" enough to reach the status…

I would argue it _is_ important: I was one of the people who decried Redmayne's casting, just as I decried the casting of Jared Leto in _Dallas Buyers Club_ and Andrew Garfield in the Arcade Fire video (and two more movies out this year with 'transface' casting :( ).

It is a problem, because it conflates the different Asian ethnicities and identities and reduces them to a racial/facial stereotype.

Considering the sheer number of young, attractive, white cisgender heterosexual actors bussing tables in LA while going to every casting call there is in Hollywood, and still below the poverty line, you can just imagine how much worse it is for actors who have none of those privileges.

Well, one of the issues besides that of x-face and stereotyping is that it robs actual actors of those marginalized backgrounds of roles, which may be potential breakout roles, in favour of an established actor who really doesn't need the additional exposure, except as Oscar-bait for the 'brave' portrayal. *puke*

Well, white privilege tends to get extended to white and white-passing ethnic groups the longer they have a sizeable presence in the U.S., and the degree to which they are allowed to assimilate. The Nazis for example had a very different definition of the concept of the 'white races' and put them on a hierarchical…

I did not know she was part Canadian. :)