Here’s the thing: All of that bullshit is studio executive assumption. The old white men in charge of the cash that are convinced that movies with female leads or leads of color don’t make money. And how do you prove that false if you’re not attempting to make those movies to begin with? You can’t. People can’t go pay…

No, that need to happen more and louder and angrier, but hand-waving at other problems to do it seems to be a non-sequitur to that. I’m not a fan of JLaw as an actress particularly and she has the pick of any role she wants, making her probably one of the most free actress in all of Hollywood. I also don’t like that…

Straight Outta Compton made over $200million on a budget of $28million. The Fast and the Furious franchise has made so much money at this point I’m not even going to work it out. Creed made over $160million on a budget of £35million. Birth of a Nation sold for a record amount of over $17million at this years Sundance…

I agree. But I’m also thinking that if the most prominent actresses aren’t supported when they speak out, then everyone has to go back to being quiet. It sucks that everyone has to crowd around one young, pretty, white women to get this conversation moving, but right now, being young, pretty, and white seems to be the…

Kinda sad though, because if an actor want to continue working it’s pretty much a studio mandated necessity. An actor might not want it, and be embarrassed about having to do it, so they don’t want to talk about it. But they gotta do what they gotta do if they don’t want to start being passed over by narrow-minded…

I do think what he said was badly worded. It made it sound like he was telling Jennifer that she has no complaint and that, were she an actress of color, she’d see what inequality looked like. And while that’s technically true, it’s not helpful to the conversation at all, for anyone. If you start using that kind of…

God I can’t even imagine how hard it must be to be an ‘older’ actress of color in Hollywood. If ethereal beauty Lupita isn’t being signed for big parts in big movies at 33 and on the heels of winning an Oscar, what hope does anyone else have? Only the most powerful white actresses who have been talented and lucky…

Can we just agree that Hollywood essentially functions like a straight, white man’s little fantasy world. Where the men don’t have to become irrelevant with age and can be whoever they want, the black men can be the sidekicks, the white women (and some pale latina women) can be the girlfriends, the wives, and the…

So did I! They gave out those shiny Mew cards with every ticket purchase. It felt like such a big deal for there to be a Pokemon movie.

Sorry to shatter your illusions, but I have great body image and I’m still in my 20's myself, so no dice. You don’t get to write off the discussion by trying to play the ‘insecure/jealous’ bullshit card I’m afraid. No, I mostly just find it very disturbing that certain men will find specifically exaggerated child-like…

You’re writing like people of color are these alien ‘others’ that are just so mysterious and incomprehensible that a white man couldn’t possibly write a great character and then, saaaay, just cast a not-white-person in the role. Aside from certain stories, a characters’ race is incidental. There’s absolutely zero…

Exactly. They sit down and write a story and actively say, “I’m going to write a story that involves 10+ people and every one of them will be white”. That is literally what they’re doing. Choosing to craft a reality where only white people exist, because in their mind white people are the default, blank-slate…

Nope, but nice try diverting the conversation.

I guess that’s Withersoon’s point, isn’t it? That there’s such a dearth of well written leading roles for women that even the most talented, Academy award winning ones are still fighting each other for two-dimensional girlfriend roles in garbage movies when those roles have even a scrap of originality or meat to them.
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Will Smith has been nominated for 2 Oscars, but he hasn’t won any yet. The movie is New Years Eve. :)

Considering some of the top searches of straight male porn are “teen” and “barely legal” is it any wonder all these straight dudes are getting defensive about how Playboy has tried to make this woman look as much like a sexy child as possible? Seriously, these guys get as close to the line of underage as they possibly…

So adorable when people try to use feminist ideas to defensively back up shitty preferences. No one is attempting to infantalize this young woman in a way that demeans her personally. They’re commenting on the fact that Playboy very obviously selected her for her very youthful features and figure and posed her in a…

The magazine clearly selected her for her ridiculously child-like appearance. They’ve even posed her in a way that makes her look even more child-like.

I’m less bothered by how natural or unnatural the photo is and more over the fact the model looks like she’s about 14. That Playboy intends for guys to be looking at this a wee child-like doll of a girl and think “yeah, hot” is pretty fucking disturbing tbh.

I’ve come to the conclusion that his technique must just be solid day-in day-out negging. In keeping with his rotten megalomaniac personality, only works for short periods of time.