Walt Disney Confessions Rage

GIRLS OF COLOR

“Poc men”

MEN OF COLOR

“Pocs”

PEOPLE OF COLOR

QUIT USING “POC” AS AN ADJECTIVE. IT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.

In the simplest terms I can think of: autonomy, consent, and basic respect.

Autonomy: A person decides when and how they display their concept of sexy and also gets to decide when and how they don’t. It can be something physical or even something like confidence or opening up another side of one’s personality… but it’s purposefully done and always at that person’s discretion. 

Consent: A person gives permission to others to recognize and enjoy their brand of sexiness. They share those aspects and people are allowed to enjoy those within reason.

Respect: A person is always seen as a full human being, whether they are embodying their sexiness or not. Whenever said person shares their sexiness, they aren’t dehumanized, shamed, or objectified. Their privacy is acknowledged, understood, and not infringed upon. 

Sexism is when these points are overlooked and relates specifically to the experience of women in the world.

I hope this makes sense.

It also allows people to see characters unlike themselves as sympathetic and relatable. 

Stalking For Love is a popular media trope where invasive stalker-like behavior is presented as an endearing or harmless part of romantic courtship. The hero will often go to extraordinary lengths to coerce, trick or otherwise manipulate his way into a woman’s life.

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LINKS AND RESOURCES • Are Hollywood movies teaching men and boys that predatory behavior is OK? • Stalking, actually: Why men who reject rejection are not romantic heroes • How Bollywood Plays a Role in Normalising Stalking • Study finds romcoms teach filmgoers to tolerate ‘stalking myths’ • Study: I Did It Because I Never Stopped Loving You • How Rom-Coms Undermine Women

I’m back with another “fandom racism” card, this one more explctly for the Black Panther fandom. I think this one can be used for scrolling through tumblr tags or AO3 as a drinking game, but I like my liver a bit too much to play it and see how it goes.

If you can’t read the bingo squares, here’s what they say (though the order may not match):

Sizekink and/or Big Black Cock

White ruler of Wakanda (other fandom)

Shuri or Okoye as “sassy Black women”

Black women as mammy figures for white chars

Reverse racism

“I can’t be a colonizer, my country never colonized anyone”

Accusing Black fans of racism or gatekeeping

“Wakanda-inspired” nations for white characters

Hyper-focus on white characters in interacial ship stories

Wakanda as a hot vacation spot for white characters

“Saying T'challa wouldn’t date a white person is racist.”

“For some reason, I just don’t like Nakia”

Erik/T'challa or Erik/Shuri

Sugar Daddy T'challa

White ruler of Wakanda (MCU)

Sam/Rhodey/Luke Cage, Who?

Black character exists only to do emotional labor

“You’re why people don’t like to write/draw Black characters in fandom.”

Slavefic

Darcy in Wakanda

White dude slashship references in headcanons/fic

Assuming Wakandans are automatically homophobic/transphobic

Aggressive Black characters

“Why do you (Black) people hate interracial relationships?”

 No one questioned Pixar’s methods as long as they were getting praised for their “storytelling,” no one was going to challenge them. I garuntee you that out of the potential projects that were pitched, there were bound to be people who had characters of color as protagonists at some point. And they were rejected every single time. 

But even if most of the pitched projects had white leads, this is because they were tailored to interests of the filmmakers. And these filmmakers were only interested in projects with white leads. 

Pixar’s not known in the animation community for it’s diverse workplace. It’s notoriously homogeneous, filled with white male creators who promote other white male creators. That doesn’t mean that they don’t hire people of color, but upward mobility is very very difficult compared to their white counterparts. 

This is why there were so many embarrassing mistakes early in production of Coco and they had to bring in more diversity that was sorely lacking in the direction of the early movie. 

As soon as they started getting criticized, they made a movie with a non white protagonist. Same with their (white) female protagonist. But even then the intervention and replacement of Brenda Chapmen on Brave with a male director to make it more appealing to boys resulted in a subpar movie that no one really latches onto due to the sexism of the heads of Pixar.  

When they got to Coco, they brought in more authentic voices. And now it’s considered one of the BEST Pixar movies in recent memory. 

So lesson: Criticize your media and they will do better. Even if they seem perfect, it’s important to know that they could always be better. If you don’t they’ll keep doing the same shit over and over again. 

Former Captain Marvel Actress Interested in Playing Storm. 

Following her departure from Captain Marvel, actress DeWanda Wise has expressed interest in playing another Marvel Comics character: Storm.

SAMMIESSLEEPYTHOUGHTS said: Uh… we do live in a world where Angeline Jolie was the star of Maleficent, that Jungle Book had more than a few well-known actors, the Rock one of the main characters in Moana, and Oprah was in a Wrinkle in Time right? This is not, in anyway, unique to the Lion King, OP.

skyofqueer said: Why are we talking about this with Lion King? I dont remember people complaining about the well known actors in Maleficent, Cinderella, Alice movies etc….