siss don’t say slursYou worship chinks & yts pleaseee dfkmmm you should be the last person to talk
Romeo and Juliet Casting
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Chinks is hardly a slur
Yea it is
This is just sad
It’s short for Chinese/ East AsianYea it is
It was mainly used to demean and dehumanise Chinese people but is used for East Asians it’s still a slur sis
@HIBAQ123
Remember the Barbie movie last year? I swear they only made sure Margot Robbie looked good in every scene and picked mid af actresses to play the other barbies. The kens all looked nice but out of the Barbies, they made sure only the white one looked good.
Never been fooled by Greta Gerwig’s “woke” act
NOTE: This is not a refutation or me trying to start shit at all because I think you're absolutely spot on with the conclusion drawn about how non-white beauty is sabotaged to uplift mid white chicks. I just think you didn't elaborate on the example as well as you could of.
First of all, Barbie is meant to be a celebration of European beauty so the expectation of black/Asian/Arab etc. beauty being weighed equally with Stereotypical Barbie (played by Margot) is a hugely unrealistic ask.
Obviously, Greta Gerwig is a white feminist but even if an ethnic woman was set to direct the film, there's a strong implicit pressure to cast a blonde hair, blue eyed white woman as Barbie since that's as iconic as her all-pink wardrobe. The outrage marketing of having a black girl play the lead would most likely tank the film because that's not what audiences grew up with, and the nostalgia factor would outweigh the urge non-white women have for equal beauty representation.
With that in mind, the non-white Barbies and Kens were meant to play second fiddle to the white ones (Margot and Ken) to mimic the doll's real-life history of including non-white dolls later. They had no contribution to the plot in the actual film, so it makes perfect sense for Margot Robbie to be at the centre of attention during the film and the press tour where her red-carpet looks were the focal point.
Even the white Barbies like Physics Barbie (played by Emma Mackay who is Margot's British lookalike) were sidelined for having brown hair and brown eyes, so getting angry over the two black girls (Senegalese Issa Rae and lighter-skinned AA Alexandra Shipp) who were still portrayed as beautifully and classically feminine is faulty logic.
There was even an fat Barbie who is typically made a dark-skinned black woman as a subtle dig but refreshingly was made white for the film, no balancing of dark-skinned beauty and ugliness to humble African women.
Overall, it's still a win, considering it's a film about a brand centering whiteness in the first place.
BUT, you know what really is racist from these white female directors/producers/writers in charge of the Barbie film?
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if ch*nk is a slur then so indoyaar
Outrage marketing is all the rage now. People need to learn to ignore things that upset them.
Indhoyaar isn’t used in a demeaning way
Zendaya can't act for shit. She's elevated in the media because Gen-Z women and girls love her fashion looks, and she's used that attention to sneak herself into acting spaces she can't actually compete in. Case in point:
Ok.. let me ask you this since you’re against the word ch*nk are you also against the use of the J word?Indhoyaar isn’t used in a demeaning way
I thought she preformed well in euphoria. Admittedly she does seem to have little to no range.
Are you a J or half breed? You are really going to bat for those people. Kinda sus tbh.
Her acting in euphoria season 1 was good. I haven’t watched the rest of euphoria or any of her other work. But yeah I agree that her fashion really did a lot for her visibility. People started to look forward to her met gala looks even before she was really known. She’s kinda like the Rihanna of the acting world.
The C slur is only used in an offensive way whilst the latter just means kinky/coily hair it can be used in a demeaning way which I’m against Somali Bantus who are called jareeers call ethnic Somalis Jileecs which are the opposite of each other
I agree. Her acting in Euphoria was very compelling but that's partly due to the fact she contributed to the writing of her character, making it somewhat closer to her personality plus her previous characters from Disney/Spiderman.
Yeah, no range basically.
Why you assuming I’m either? I just dislike the hypocrisy in our community. + my closest friends are Caribbean
"Rihanna of the acting world" I'm stealing that one. She's good in her limited range but that's what I mean by her being overrated. She's held up as the next Halle Berry but hasn't done anything of that calibre.
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