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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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[bookshop]

2) Buy a movie ticket for another movie (Karate Kid? Toy Story 3?).
Karate Kid! CHINA. CROSS-CULTURAL NARRATIVE. AND 3-DIMENSIONAL CHINESE PEOPLE. okay, in some cases narrowly avoiding exaggerated stereotypes of Chinese people, and also I feel like the Smiths just said TOUCHING BLACK PEOPLE'S HAIR IS CUTE, but i still feel like it gets a points for trying, especially in comparison to TLA :( :( :(

(a free movie pass, which went to buy a ticket for Sherlock Holmes, is how I saw the *other* Avatar in theatres. Ugh.)

[glockgal]

In comparison to TLA is totally my (very bitter and cynical) motto these days. Gyah, I just want that stupid movie to premiere and then go away forever so we can refocus racebending into a media awareness comm.

[glockgal]

Yup yup! I'm so sick of it at this moment that all I want is for it to be over!

[furiosity]

You know, I realised over the past few days why the whole "you are hostile and/or angry and therefore your opinion doesn't matter" is so severely amusing to me (in that "funny but sad" kind of way), because I can point to a dozen fannish rants I've posted over the years where I was indeed very angry and even hostile about all manner of things -- like who tops in a slash pairing or how to spell correctly -- in other words, things that have zero relevance to any truly important matters. The response was usually an overwhelming "word". Kinney knows how many disagreed but said nothing because of fandom's ingrained culture of "say nothing if you have nothing nice to say", but my point is that how come I get to post angry screeds like, "Draco Malfoy's fanfic personality, ur doin it rong!" and have people go "yeah, you're right" and "I love your rants :D :D!" but the minute any unprivileged person reacts to privilege with any amount of anger, they are suddenly "too emotional" and their arguments are thus insta-invalidated just because they'

[_inbetween_]

You answered your own (rhetorical) question there; only the priviliged are allowed and able to rant. On anything really - lately the small issues of fandom disagreement have been forgotten, but any major attack on firm fandom favourites by someone who's not securely established get equally torn apart or brushed aside.

[furiosity]

I wasn't actually asking a question; "what the fuck" is rhetorical. I also don't think it is at all appropriate to compare actual privilege (and thus lack thereof) to "fandom status". :\

[glockgal]

Seriously, right? Emotion = bad in fandom! Well, only if you're forcing someone to actually unpack something awful within themselves. But it's ok to soapbox passionately about how unfair it is that this pairing gets less attention than that pairing!!

[syonanto]

Oh good God... I read the first comment on the These Are My Colours entry and died.

Anywho, thanks for the list of suggestions. Honestly, #2 is by far the most appealing to me, but I doubt I'll end up doing any of the four. I vowed to boycott the movie and it wouldn't feel right to do so and still end up watching it on the big screen.

[glockgal]

Yeah - I feel if I do end up seeing it (for free, of course) it'll be in the privacy of my own home where I can loudly rant and rage to my heart's content. :D

[syonanto]

XD And the only thing better than that is doing it with friends who feel the exact same way!

[glockgal]

Friends present are a necessity - who else will hear my oh-so-cutting wit! *hee*

[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

[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.