It’s a difference of opinion, but it’s far from “lazy”: there are very specific reasons that equation came to be the commonly accepted definition within social justice, based on the many discourses in the field.
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Ideally it would be both, because both do matter: Quality is meaningless if the representation is never seen, just as quantity is meaningless if it’s bad or stereotypical representation.
Me too! :) It’s like my go-to site for social justice. Well, one of a handful that really seem to get it right, anyway.
Agreed. When I first heard about the casting, I was just too tired to even get angry. I’m more incensed now by some of the willfully ignorant comments on here than I am at the actual casting, which I also knew was coming and wasn’t really shocked or surprised.
I’m not emotionally invested in the character of Iron Fist…
But in the end, audiences are meant to empathize with Daniel-san... and they do. Mr. Miyagi isn’t the main character, and although I give the film props for giving his backstory some thought, including the history of Japanese American internment and the decorated 442nd Infantry Regiment, he’s ultimately not the…
Batman should be Asian.
Even when it’s not ‘Mighty Whitey’, the very fact of a person being the protagonist puts them in a position where the audience is supposed to empathize with them, no matter if the book/movie/TV show/etc. has a Hollywood/Disney ending (i.e. a happy one) or not.
So even if the white main protagonist does not have a happy…
These are real societal issues, and just because you aren’t personally affected by them doesn’t make them not real societal issues.
But then, as someone above stated, anyone who uses the term ‘SJW’ in the pejorative simply can’t be taken seriously.
As a Japanese Canadian, I agree wholeheartedly.
Except that the relationship and racial tension between Iron Fist and Power Man could work just as easily if Iron Fist was of Asian descent, considering the _huge_ divide and tensions in the US between Asian Americans and the African American community, especially in light of the Peter Liang conviction, but certainly…
THIS. And it’s not the Asian-martial arts stereotype I have a problem with per se, but rather that so often those roles are extremely limited. Even when the lead role _is_ played by an actual Asian martial arts star, the entire movie focuses entirely on martial arts at the expense of character development, and you…
But that’s because Bruce Lee is the star (lead role, main character, protagonist, etc.) in that movie. It matters the ethnicity of the main character because a show hinges on that character and audiences are meant to, and actually do, identify most strongly with the main character, but particularly in a non-ensemble…
Why is it always “then make/do it yourself”?
It’s like when a Somali-American woman recently grilled about Hillary Clinton about her ‘super predator’ comments, rather than be empathetic and compassionate towards this woman and actually try to explain herself (or take responsibility for the mistakes of her past,…
You’re assuming that minority representation should be in direct proportion to population size, but I believe that’s a fallacious first premise. I would argue that members of marginalized groups (not just in terms of ethnicity, but all marginalized identities) need _more_ representation in popular culture, mass media,…
Heh, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is like, the go-to Asian villain in movies. I mean, on the one hand many of his roles play into very racist stereotypes, especially of the Yellow Peril variety... but on the other hand, given the total lack of conventional, ‘normal’ roles for Asian American actors in the West, better the…
Wow, you said it, and way better than I could’ve. Kudos!
With limbs flying off due to skate blades made out of single-edged sword blades, and a hockey stick used as a polearm...
Heh, as a Japanese-immigrant-turned-Canadian-citizen who grew up in Toronto and Ottawa, and with a dad with a black belt in judo, I probably should be too. But fuck concussions.
/did go to the same dojo as Ben Mulroney, he of E-Talk fame
//he was a green belt when I was a white belt