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[glockgal]

THE WACKY COUSIN
cidercupcakes discusses an issue: 'it is not the duty of marginalized people to educate privileged people, or to fit some gold standard of "niceness" in calling them out on their privilege'Actually, while I fully 100% support what Cider is referring to (ie the erasure of a character's canon Jewishness by replacing it with Catholicism), her post

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[bana05]

I just spent the last few weeks watching Avatar: The Last Airbender because I needed to see it. I didn't watch it back when it was on its first-run, and I have to say had it not been for this controversy, I doubt I would've in general. But I was supporting the protest on the principle of the matter. I didn't need to see the series to know that was foul how they did the casting. I didn't need to be of the Asian diaspora for it to matter to me. But then I started watching the series and I OMG FLOVE IT SO MUCH! and these people in the live action look absolutely nothing like the characters I fell in love with. And watching the World Cup sets my teeth on edge because there's a promo for the film just about every break. I've been ranting to skywardprodigal about how disrespectful, degrading, debilitating, and frankly dumbass this entire thing has been and completely missing the point of Avatar's original creators for the bottom line. How they're being offensive to the people who loved the show--loved a show full of nonwhite characters and how they didn't trust these same people to love a live-action movie with nonwhite characters. Not to make a long rant in your comments, but posts like these matter. It does. We haven't reached the "it's just a movie" argument. This series was the perfect example of how nonPoC can write CoC as fully realized and pay homage to a culture that isn't yours. I dread the fic that will come out after this movie.

But thank you for your LJ and racebending and the like to get the word out. Perfectly explains why it does matter, and why it SHOULD matter irrespective of color.

[glockgal]

Thanks so much for your comment. It lightens my step every time I hear someone else mention that they enjoyed the show so much, only to see - clearly - the disappointment that is the movie. Just awful and ultimately so disappointing. It really would have been amazing to see it live-action, and I hate that institutionalized racism has taken this chance away from so many fans. Errrg.