Jia wrote a really great piece about Emma Stone playing a half-Asian woman in Aloha that touches on all of these issues that is very worthwhile if you haven’t already read it. Getting the “right actress for the part” or a “big name” are excuses that have been used to whitewash Hollywood for decades. It really does…

Oh man. That is just too good.

She was an ~ILLUMINATI SACRIFICE~

.........WOW. This is truly one of the more insane conspiracy theories I've ever come across. Wild.

I LOVE Oded. He is actually who I was thinking about when I made that comment. It’s tough, because people shouldn’t be pigeonholed into only playing their own ethnicity in roles, but at the same time this practice of casting any brown person into any brown-person part perpetuates the idea that they all look the same.…

This is a good summary of it (though it is truly batshit, just warning you) http://www.crisisforums.org/discussion/865…

Woah, really?? I have never heard that before.

This reminds me of that bananas theory about Lady Gaga stealing the identity of some woman she knew who died by suicide, but this is even more bananas than that. Yikes.

I understand what you mean. It’s a delicate issue, and as a white person it’s my place to decide what’s okay and what’s not. No matter what, we need more diversity in front of and behind cameras in Hollywood.

Very true. I imagine it’d be difficult to name any twenty people that quickly when you’re not prepared for it.

That’s true, but I mean it more in the sense that few mainstream Hollywood movies are about Latinos or star Latinos, and there are plenty of great films outside the mainstream that I could be watching but haven’t. Being aware that a person is Latin@ is not the same as being a racialist, either.

All the more reason to highlight the fact that he’s not Latino. There’s no difference whatsoever between a Mexican, a Brazilian, and a Saudi, according to Hollywood casting directors.

I was thinking about it yesterday, and there is no way I could ever do that when put on the spot like that. It took me a full five minutes to come up with 20 names just sitting around my house, which says something both about me and about Hollywood. It shouldn’t be that hard.

Nailed it.

Shout-out to all the people who spazzed in last night’s Dirt Bag when I suggested that Matt Damon should probably shut the fuck up now

True!

They also, hilariously, tried to turn off comments on their Facebook page because people were not happy, to say the least.

Literally my first response to this yesterday was to tweet that I’m going to go live in a cave with my cats and never speak to anyone again because this is t e r r i f y i n g.

I just don’t understand how anyone can call him or herself pro-life and yet care so little about women. It’s mind-boggling.

As far as celeb kid names go I think that one’s pretty tame because at least she can go by Allie or something if she wants to.