International Blog Against Racism Week -- Macro Edition!
So I seriously spent an embarrassingly long time seeing all these posts mentioning ibarw and thinking "Cool, I wonder if that's Welsh for something?"
In case you, too, are brainfully challenged, it is International Blog Against Racism Week and thus I have posted to say that this blog is AGAINST RACISM. Also, you should follow the link above because many people have said much more enlightening things about the subject than I have!
However, if there is one area where I feel I can be relatively eloquent, it is talking about how things FAIL and then making fun of them. As I have said before, The Last Failbender is the EXTREMELY racefaily adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, American Asian-Inspired Fantasy Cartoon of Awesome and WIN. The roles of the four leads, who are Tibetan-ish, Inuit-ish, also Inuit-ish, and Japanese-ish, resulted in the initial casting of, respectively, an unknown white dude from Texas*, a random white actress, a white actor from Twilight, and a white teenybopper. I'm sure you've spotted the flaw here. (Actually, several flaws. Hint: they involve the words "Twilight" and "teenybopper".)
* It's not ACTUALLY this dude, but it might as well be.
Subsequent uproar by fans and people with good taste resulted in the replacement of Jesse McCartney (::headdesk::) with Dev Patel (YAY), meaning that the leads were now only 75% whiter than they should've been. However, this also meant that the only lead actor of color was also the BAD GUY.
In conclusion: EPIC FAIL.
Depress your actors with RACE!FAIL! Coming next summer to a theater near you.
And yet, everyone involved with the movie maintains that it's not racist and upholds the original show's spirit o' diversity. Right. aang-aint-white has more information, as well as links to online petitions and addresses to encourage your urge to write angry letters. At the very least, don't spend money on this movie, please.
That being said, now it's time for...
::HEADDESK:: HEADSHOTS!
Aang's irrepressible joy at being alive really shines through here.
Poor Zuko. All the hairbrushes in the world spontaneously combusted to herald the return of the avatar.
It's a small consolation, but at least I got to see Sokka try to eat Bella in the last New Moon trailer.
WHERE ARE KATARA'S HAIR LOOPIES??!?!?!?
The Last FAILPoster
Pictures kleptoed from ONTD.
In case you, too, are brainfully challenged, it is International Blog Against Racism Week and thus I have posted to say that this blog is AGAINST RACISM. Also, you should follow the link above because many people have said much more enlightening things about the subject than I have!
However, if there is one area where I feel I can be relatively eloquent, it is talking about how things FAIL and then making fun of them. As I have said before, The Last Failbender is the EXTREMELY racefaily adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, American Asian-Inspired Fantasy Cartoon of Awesome and WIN. The roles of the four leads, who are Tibetan-ish, Inuit-ish, also Inuit-ish, and Japanese-ish, resulted in the initial casting of, respectively, an unknown white dude from Texas*, a random white actress, a white actor from Twilight, and a white teenybopper. I'm sure you've spotted the flaw here. (Actually, several flaws. Hint: they involve the words "Twilight" and "teenybopper".)
* It's not ACTUALLY this dude, but it might as well be.
Subsequent uproar by fans and people with good taste resulted in the replacement of Jesse McCartney (::headdesk::) with Dev Patel (YAY), meaning that the leads were now only 75% whiter than they should've been. However, this also meant that the only lead actor of color was also the BAD GUY.
In conclusion: EPIC FAIL.
Depress your actors with RACE!FAIL! Coming next summer to a theater near you.
And yet, everyone involved with the movie maintains that it's not racist and upholds the original show's spirit o' diversity. Right. aang-aint-white has more information, as well as links to online petitions and addresses to encourage your urge to write angry letters. At the very least, don't spend money on this movie, please.
That being said, now it's time for...
::HEADDESK:: HEADSHOTS!
Aang's irrepressible joy at being alive really shines through here.
Poor Zuko. All the hairbrushes in the world spontaneously combusted to herald the return of the avatar.
It's a small consolation, but at least I got to see Sokka try to eat Bella in the last New Moon trailer.
WHERE ARE KATARA'S HAIR LOOPIES??!?!?!?
The Last FAILPoster
Pictures kleptoed from ONTD.