AS IF!

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                    who i am NOW

     i’m not sure how to start off this bias list but, thank you for letting me have such an amazing time roleplaying max these past few months. to be honest, i delayed writing her for two months because i was afraid i wouldn’t do the character justice — and even though i have some lingering insecurities about my portrayal of her, i really enjoy exploring her character and interacting with some of the kindest writers in this community. this is the part where i start writing emotional crap so—

besides the fact that it’s in japan and they whitewashed the film

it romanticizes death, suicide, and the forest

it is a real forest in japan, aokigahara, where people go to commit suicide

suicide in japan is a national crisis. the usa ranks 50th in yearly suicides while japan ranks 17th—an estimated 70 suicides per day.

japan’s rigorous culture of conformity heavily stigmatizes those with mental health issues. many japanese people have grown content with suicide and see it as a reasonable solution. in reality, suicide is an epidemic and is the second leading cause of death in the country.

suicides in the forest are still happening today so it is extremely disrespectful. this isn’t something that happened 400 years ago. it’s been happening for the last 30 years—over 100 bodies are found in aokigahara every year.

ableist erasure of poc with mental health issues—does not mention depression and whitewashes japanese people with depression, making yet another example where poc with mental illnesses are completely invisible.

as someone else said, the model minority myth doesn’t just assume that we (asians) are universally intelligent or rich, it also assumes that we’re able-bodied and don’t suffer from mental illness. NO ONE talks about mental health among asians. NO ONE talks about disabled asians. why? because everyone believes that we’re rich and smart enough to access healthcare. we aren’t.

instead of reaching out and confronting a problem that exists and is on-going, natalie dormer and her hollywood ilk turned it into a horror movie and whitewashed its cast, thus dehumanizing not only asians around the globe affected by mental health, but those who have already committed suicide.

basically it’s a female and her male best friend, may he be gay or not and whenever he sees her falling into a bad date or something he’s like “calling it” and she just kind of rolls her eyes and goes for it anyway, then after the said date goes TERRIBLY, she’ll come home with this look of despair on her face and her best friend is waiting for her on the couch with ice cream and a great movie and she’ll do the same for him and when breakups go bad they’re there for each other even if it’s like fucking three in the morning aND THERE ARE NO UNDERLYING FEELINGS THEY’RE LITERALLY JUST BEST FRIENDS WHO LOVE EACH OTHER IN A COMPLETELY PLATONIC FUCKING WAY CAN I HAVE THIS OR NAW??