#Hollywood diversity

[alwaysbewoke]

[successfulblackparenting]

Impact of A Black Mermaid On Black Children

The movie Black Panther proved that there is something about seeing Black people dominate the big screen that excites our community. “Before Halle Bailey became The Little Mermaid, Shameik Alti Moore (Miles Morales) became Spiderman in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, said Dr. Corey Emmanuel of Omnimedia.” In both instances, the original characters were depicted as white. These pivotal moments…

[jenifercheck]

hollywood: we paired a white person with a person of color in a love story and mostly centered on the white person but don't forget that their love interest is a poc. we did it. again. we're geniuses. kings of diversity. absolutely brilliant. interracial relationships will stop racism.

[m-ultraarticles]

Viola Davis Says Hollywood Is 'Vast Desert' For Black Women Over 50

While attending the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, Viola Davis expressed her frustration with the available roles for Black women in Hollywood. “When it comes to Black women who are over 50, then that is when [the lack of interesting roles] is problematic. That’s when it is a vast desert,” the EGOT winner, who most recently portrayed Michael Jordan’s mother Deloris Johnson in “Air,” told…

[odinsblog]

“For the people saying they’re just hanging out with their friends: in Hollywood, as in most other circles, people who look like them hold the majority of the wealth, power, and status. The same people left out of their social networks are left out professionally too. That matters.”

“I’m sure Jennifer Aniston didn’t cook all this food, take care of all this property, and clean this whole house. Yeah, they won’t show you the people that actually do the work to make their lives comfortable.”

[artofkhaos404]

Hobie Brown is a fantastic character.

His design, concept, uniqueness and how HOT he is make him altogether very likeable. But all these things are not why I love him so much; it's what he represents that gets me.

The symbol in modern media he is for many different types of people. For one, he's pretty awesome for people of color to enjoy. Another black hero who can get down to business is always welcome, though it's nothing new for the Spiderverse universe with Miles Morales being our main protagonist. Having a British black character makes it all the more fun, diverse and interesting!

All that being said, the thing that warms my heart about Hobie Brown is what he means for the alternative community.

Im a punk. I'm also an anarchist.

Like anyone, I look for people in media who represent me in both appearance and ideals. As a plus sized person, finding people in media who look like me and aren't part of the toxic stereotype for fat people is uncommon. Chubby characters who don't make their weight part of their personality is unheard of.

Finding characters who properly represent my beliefs and ideals is nigh impossible in my experience. Seeing a punk in modern day popular media is rare. And when I say punk, I'm talking PUNK RAWK. Musicians with colorfully laced boots and symbols painted sloppily all over themselves. Gritty political activists in homemade clothes and piercings, fighting tooth and nail for what they believe in. In truth, I don't know if I've ever seen that in popular media; not authentically.

What do we get instead? Punk coded teenagers who don't really believe in anything, pissing people off for the sake of it. That ain't us. We believe in respect, love and morals. We believe in doing whatever is necessary to achieve the perfect world, whatever each individual believes that is.

The representation is even more insulting for anarchists. Everywhere are both mature antagonists and cartoon villains parading around preaching "anarchy" and completely misusing the word. Its to the point that my political belief is now more closely related to dictatorships (the literal OPPOSITE of anarchism!) or simply death and destruction rather than the true definition: no institutions, just people.

That word has been defiled. I've had people laugh at me and ridicule me when I share my political stance with them due to this stereotype. I've had people tell me I believe what I do just because it "sounds cool."

People that were uneducated to the concept in the first place have now been reeducated by an overlord walking across a battlefield of dead bodies in some movie screaming about "anarchy." Thanks Hollywood. Really appreciate that.

But Hobie is a punk. And he's an anarchist.

He's a hero. He's intelligent. He knows what he fights for and he fights well. That alone is revolutionary for the anarchist movement.

And in a MARVEL FILM. Millions of people watch Marvel films across the globe. Across the Spider verse has pulled in 1.35 Billion dollars. This is exactly what we need.

So, as a representative of my community, thank you Sony Pictures for this gift. I hope to see more like it. And while we're at it, thank you for all the diversity in this new film between all the ethnicities shown onscreen to putting someone my size in the mask!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

(also if anyone has any recommendations for realistic punk characters in media I'd love to hear em)

[frasier-crane-style]

[neverwritewhatyouknow]

Let’s talk Grey’s Anatomy.

Their Jewish doctors aren’t Jewish. Their major Jewish characters aren’t Jewish.

Was there not a single Jewish 13 year old in LA?

Are there no Jewish men in their late 20s/early 30s?

That’s hard to believe.

Grey’s has a “Jewish consultation” which, I guess is nice because at least you know what you’re seeing has at least been handled with some care. But, that doesn’t just make it okay to still whitewash an ethnic group.

If I hire a “Hispanic consultant” can I make a live-action Encanto starting Dakota Fanning as Mirabel? What if I teach her Spanish? Then that’s okay, right? What if she studies the culture for a few days? Then she can def star in it alongside Brad Pitt, Tom Holland, and Reese Witherspoon.

Finding an actor with curly hair and a “Jewish look” isn’t representation. It’s rude. It’s wrong. It’s lazy.

[thegetdownrebooter]

ruining your own show because you were bitter about people shipping your self insert with a black woman is crazy.

[mariocki]

Donald Sutherland guest stars as the appropriately named Philip Guest, a less appropriately unbalanced kidnapper, in Gideon's Way: The Millionaire's Daughter (1.21, ITC, 1966)

[fullsaw]

im starting to want queer tv shows that aren't about young rich british boys

[deancasforcutie]

I may have mixed feelings on SuperWiki as a resource but they really went off with this "Meanings of Episode Titles" entry (the last words are linking to Wayward Sisters)

Berens @ CW/WB:

[wordspinning]

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[marisatomay]

have any of you ever felt the loving touch of another human. maybe the gentle breeze upon your face as it rises up the mountain you just climbed as you gaze upon the vast beauty of our planet.

[musings-of-a-maladaptive-dream]

Random thoughts here.

But what if Hollywood is purposely making POC and LGBT people a controversial topic in order to prevent POC and LGBT people from getting jobs in the film industry by tricking the masses into disliking these groups?

What if taking beloved original characters and changing their race instead of making a new and original story for POC or LGBT people is all a Hollywood effort to trick the general public into disliking media with a POC or LGBT character so they can effectively force POC and LGBT people out of the film industry.

They made hiring people with dwarfism controversial and instead replaced them with cgi characters instead of hiring actual people with dwarfism. Effectively trying to cut people with dwarfism out of the film industry. Why wouldn’t theses Hollywood studios try to trick the audience into seeing POC and LGBT characters as a bad thing so they can eventually just drive these diverse people out of industry completely and being able to get away with keeping the film industry to the rich white people.

[timemachineyeah]

seeing a celebrity photo I think I recognize and then reading the caption and having it confirmed once again that I have face blindness