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- Out Of A Whole Planet’s Population, One Hero Will Be Chosen: It’s Probably Going To Be A White Dude
Well we are the majority the odds are in our favor
no yoU AREN’T THAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS POST YOU DENSEHEADED DINGLEFRICKER
Today I learned that “The Whole Planet” means the United States and Europe.
In which white dudes still aren’t the majority, because 1/2 are female and plenty of those males ain’t white.
lol logic how do
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30th May 2013
Reblogged From latinagabi
Notes: 28354
That’s right. I don’t want to draw people of colour. Why? I don’t find them aesthetically pleasing. And no, that doesn’t make me racist. I have nothing against people of colour. I don’t have a problem with them. Some of my best friends are people of colour, and I don’t think any less of them for that.
I just don’t find poc attractive. Kinda like I don’t find big noses or buck teeth attractive. Or curly hair, or bushy eyebrows, or super thin lips, or certain face shapes. Or a lot of Freckles. Or really huge butts. Or ginormous boobs.
I like to draw things that I find attractive or interesting, so that’s what I’ll draw. If it doesn’t fit into what I think is attractive or interesting, I tend not to draw it.
And I don’t have to. So all you “BAH YOU DON’T DRAW POC! YOU RACIST!” people need to stfu. People can draw whatever the fuck they want, and you can’t force them to draw something they don’t want to. They might be racist, they might not. But it doesn’t matter. We all have free will.
submitted by -belle-of-ponderosa
Don’t you dare use your friends that are PoC to justify your vile words. We people of color, we do not all look the same but words such as yours, have been used for hundreds of years to demonize our features, to stigmatize us. Congratulations, you are another no good racist artist. - Yazmine
so you find only white people attractive and interesting
nice
that’s not racist at all!
Fuuuuuuck me. Here are some of belle-of-ponderosa’s comments:
“I never said they do all have brown skin. But do they have brown hair or eyes? Probably. People who think hating a colour is stupid: maybe, but it’s actually a psychological issue I have. The colour fucking makes me sick. I hate it. It makes me want to crawl out of my skin.”
“I just don’t find those who possess certain coloring (even people with white skin and brown hair or eyes) pretty.”
“I shouldn’t bother wasting my time talking to people who don’t even understand what racism is and just insult me when they don’t even know me over what I find attractive.”
“I honestly didn’t think people would get butthurt over me not finding features attractive. As for my shitstorm comment? Yeah. This whole thing is fucking amusing. I can’t believe people got so worked up over it. ”
“As for saying I’m somewhat racist: I am. Everyone is. People have little things that they think or feel that they don’t realize is racist. The ways in which I am somewhat racist are like, that I feel much safer walking past a non-native guy at night than a native one. Things like that.”
“Woot. I’m loving the shit storm I caused.”
In response to someone being called out as homophobic: “ Alright, yes she is. So what? Is it right? No. But she’s allowed to be that way. I’m racist in some regards. Is that right? Hell no. but I am, and I have the right to feel that way, just like she has the right to be homophobic. It’s not against the law to be a bigot. As long as she doesn’t go discriminating, it’s a non issue. ”
Edit: She’s deleted her tumblr. Good riddance.
Microaggressions tumblr’s post about the Disney Princess lunchbag reminded me to go to the Disney Store website to see what has resulted from the franchise’s recent redesign. It was cool to see a diverse array of kids playing with the toys on the website (although it’d be cool to see some boys playing with some of the Princess stuff, alongside the girls, too.)
This designed rolled out alongside the Cinderella blu-ray release. You can tell the merchandise is from the new “generation” because Cinderella has a different hairstyle (loose bangs), Jasmine’s earrings are different, and Belle has substantially more hair. (Note that in the film Cinderella has light brown hair and wears a white dress; in merchandise she usually has bright blonde hair and a blue dress.)
The vast majority of merchandise features multiple white princesses, usually in the forefront. Princesses of color may or may not be included, when they are included there is usually only one of them, even when there are more than one of them they are usually in positioned the background or off to the side.
While several items of merchandise feature a group of white Princesses, no items of merchandise as part of the Dinsey Princess product line feature Princesses of color. (Which would be different and heck, I’d buy it.)
There are even several outfits modeled by young black girls that do not feature Princess Tiana and instead feature a cluster of white princesses + Jasmine. There’s even an outfit modeled by an Asian girl that only features white princesses. (That’s not to say that girls of color can’t be fans of the princesses who are white, only to say that it is bizarre that the models are more diverse than the merchandise and that it’s odd that there is no outfit with only princesses of color modeled by a white girl, for example.)
Each product’s design positions the princesses differently, so this is not the case of using the same picture for several different pieces of merchandise. More pictures of merch here.
This merchandise can and does send implicit messages to kids. Disney…you just redesigned your merchandise and the women of color are still absent or on the margins.
![evermean:
tarariot:
replystacks:
aboutmaleprivilege:
reddisred:
wenliine:
setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain:
girljanitor:
tangledcurles:
girljanitor:
toonsketchbook:
Okay so I know this is kinda taboo but anyways.
Frida Kahlo: Not too easy on the eyes. I mean she’s got the lady-mo and the monobrow thing going on. She didn’t know where to put her blush or what shade lipstick would obviously suit her skin tone. Really, she’s a bit of a wreck. So this got me to thinking. What would have happened if her girlfriends had done the right thing and taken her to a beautician, (which clearly needed to happen)? I did a subtle re-paint over the top of her original self-portrait to “conceptualize” what it would have looked like if she had been whisked off to Beauty Works or the likes….I didn’t want to alter the integrity of the original painting too much. What do you reckon?
Did you really just skin-lighten a Frida Kahlo self portait
and remove her facial hair
and call her “a wreck”
and then say she couldn’t choose a fucking lipstick to suit her skin tone
after you changed her skin tone
how can one person be everything that is wrong with the world at once
I don’t think she changed her skin tone but still.. ! What the fuck are you doing? Who cares about making her beautiful by western beauty industry standards. You’re going against everything that makes her really beautiful. Frida had a bunch of fucked up shit happen to her, unibrow and all. And she wore her facial hair with pride. It’s part of who she was and what made her a strong, proud, awesome woman and symbol of feminism. The fact that you consider her friends not taking her to a salon to ‘fix’ her ‘flaws’, wrong. Only serves to show how shallow you really are. You don’t have to buy in to the shit they sell you to be beautiful. And fuck you, photoshop pictures of yourself next time.
I beg to differ.
Removing the lowlights and expanding the midtones and highlights to cover previously dark areas in order to “even out” the skintone counts as “lightening”.
Here’s a half-and-half comparison to better see what was done here:
This is basically what most hydroquinone skin-bleaching creams are touted to do.
The audacity of this person to try and “fix” Frida. I cannot.
It’s a white man that did this.
-_______-
And it’s sad because by his (original) artwork, he does seem talented. Why is it that such talented people do such terrible things?
Because white supremacy.
Fuck anyone who thinks this is okay.
The fucking white male privilege, the sexism and the racism…fucking astounding.
-Redd, who is still pissed as fuck over this bullshit.
Let’s not forget that he:
Thinks there is a formula for “pretty girls”. [x]
Portrays racial stereotypes. (Note that he usually portrays people from other countries at labourers in field, and rarely shows people from other countries in powerful roles.) [x] [x]
Thinks having the “correct proportions” on a woman means taking away her muscles and making her facial expressions soft instead of badass. [x]
Uses gender-stereotypical superhero poses. [x] [x]
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT
fuck you op](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhzu7wBs181qbe1wso1_1280.jpg)
![evermean:
tarariot:
replystacks:
aboutmaleprivilege:
reddisred:
wenliine:
setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain:
girljanitor:
tangledcurles:
girljanitor:
toonsketchbook:
Okay so I know this is kinda taboo but anyways.
Frida Kahlo: Not too easy on the eyes. I mean she’s got the lady-mo and the monobrow thing going on. She didn’t know where to put her blush or what shade lipstick would obviously suit her skin tone. Really, she’s a bit of a wreck. So this got me to thinking. What would have happened if her girlfriends had done the right thing and taken her to a beautician, (which clearly needed to happen)? I did a subtle re-paint over the top of her original self-portrait to “conceptualize” what it would have looked like if she had been whisked off to Beauty Works or the likes….I didn’t want to alter the integrity of the original painting too much. What do you reckon?
Did you really just skin-lighten a Frida Kahlo self portait
and remove her facial hair
and call her “a wreck”
and then say she couldn’t choose a fucking lipstick to suit her skin tone
after you changed her skin tone
how can one person be everything that is wrong with the world at once
I don’t think she changed her skin tone but still.. ! What the fuck are you doing? Who cares about making her beautiful by western beauty industry standards. You’re going against everything that makes her really beautiful. Frida had a bunch of fucked up shit happen to her, unibrow and all. And she wore her facial hair with pride. It’s part of who she was and what made her a strong, proud, awesome woman and symbol of feminism. The fact that you consider her friends not taking her to a salon to ‘fix’ her ‘flaws’, wrong. Only serves to show how shallow you really are. You don’t have to buy in to the shit they sell you to be beautiful. And fuck you, photoshop pictures of yourself next time.
I beg to differ.
Removing the lowlights and expanding the midtones and highlights to cover previously dark areas in order to “even out” the skintone counts as “lightening”.
Here’s a half-and-half comparison to better see what was done here:
This is basically what most hydroquinone skin-bleaching creams are touted to do.
The audacity of this person to try and “fix” Frida. I cannot.
It’s a white man that did this.
-_______-
And it’s sad because by his (original) artwork, he does seem talented. Why is it that such talented people do such terrible things?
Because white supremacy.
Fuck anyone who thinks this is okay.
The fucking white male privilege, the sexism and the racism…fucking astounding.
-Redd, who is still pissed as fuck over this bullshit.
Let’s not forget that he:
Thinks there is a formula for “pretty girls”. [x]
Portrays racial stereotypes. (Note that he usually portrays people from other countries at labourers in field, and rarely shows people from other countries in powerful roles.) [x] [x]
Thinks having the “correct proportions” on a woman means taking away her muscles and making her facial expressions soft instead of badass. [x]
Uses gender-stereotypical superhero poses. [x] [x]
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT
fuck you op](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhzu7wBs181qbe1wso2_1280.jpg)
setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain:
Okay so I know this is kinda taboo but anyways.
Frida Kahlo: Not too easy on the eyes. I mean she’s got the lady-mo and the monobrow thing going on. She didn’t know where to put her blush or what shade lipstick would obviously suit her skin tone. Really, she’s a bit of a wreck. So this got me to thinking. What would have happened if her girlfriends had done the right thing and taken her to a beautician, (which clearly needed to happen)? I did a subtle re-paint over the top of her original self-portrait to “conceptualize” what it would have looked like if she had been whisked off to Beauty Works or the likes….I didn’t want to alter the integrity of the original painting too much. What do you reckon?
Did you really just skin-lighten a Frida Kahlo self portait
and remove her facial hair
and call her “a wreck”
and then say she couldn’t choose a fucking lipstick to suit her skin tone
after you changed her skin tone
how can one person be everything that is wrong with the world at once
I don’t think she changed her skin tone but still.. ! What the fuck are you doing? Who cares about making her beautiful by western beauty industry standards. You’re going against everything that makes her really beautiful. Frida had a bunch of fucked up shit happen to her, unibrow and all. And she wore her facial hair with pride. It’s part of who she was and what made her a strong, proud, awesome woman and symbol of feminism. The fact that you consider her friends not taking her to a salon to ‘fix’ her ‘flaws’, wrong. Only serves to show how shallow you really are. You don’t have to buy in to the shit they sell you to be beautiful. And fuck you, photoshop pictures of yourself next time.
I beg to differ.
Removing the lowlights and expanding the midtones and highlights to cover previously dark areas in order to “even out” the skintone counts as “lightening”.
Here’s a half-and-half comparison to better see what was done here:
This is basically what most hydroquinone skin-bleaching creams are touted to do.
The audacity of this person to try and “fix” Frida. I cannot.
It’s a white man that did this.
-_______-
And it’s sad because by his (original) artwork, he does seem talented. Why is it that such talented people do such terrible things?
Because white supremacy.
Fuck anyone who thinks this is okay.
The fucking white male privilege, the sexism and the racism…fucking astounding.
-Redd, who is still pissed as fuck over this bullshit.
Let’s not forget that he:
- Thinks there is a formula for “pretty girls”. [x]
- Portrays racial stereotypes. (Note that he usually portrays people from other countries at labourers in field, and rarely shows people from other countries in powerful roles.) [x] [x]
- Thinks having the “correct proportions” on a woman means taking away her muscles and making her facial expressions soft instead of badass. [x]
- Uses gender-stereotypical superhero poses. [x] [x]
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT
fuck you op
Liam Neeson as Ra’s Al Ghul in The Dark Knight Rises. His name in Arabic has been translated in the comics as “The Demon’s Head”. Ra’s Al Ghul is born to a tribe of nomads in a desert somewhere in Arabia, near a city whose inhabitants’ ancestors have journeyed to the Arabian Peninsula from China.
Marion Cotillard as Talia Al Ghul in The Dark Knight Rises. The graphic novel “Batman: Birth of the Demon” explains how she was of mixed Chinese and Arab descent.
Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. Bane is Hispanic. There is no getting around it. He was born in the fictional Caribbean Republic of Santa Prisca, in a prison called Peña Dura, and speaks Spanish as his first language. Bane is a person of color.
Chimamanda Adichie: “The danger of a single story”
I love, love, love this speech. Everything in it applies to everyone in some way, regardless of race, nationality, religion, etc. I’m sure we can all come up with instances where we assumed that a certain group of people were one way based on “a single story” we’d been told, and were surprised to discover that that group is more diverse than we thought and more similar to us than we thought.
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes in not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” -Chimamanda Adichie
Please watch and enjoy! :-)
I’ve had this bookmarked for ages, and seen several people refer to it, so I finally sat down and watched it. It is utterly brilliant.
In case your small minded enough to think these women are the same, let me explain their personalities. The brunette is tough and street wise but once in a while she is vulnerable and sweet. Where as the blonde is vulnerable and sweet but sometimes she is tough and street wise. Two TOTALLY different people.
Saw some of the shows/movies coming up in the fall… and for the past 25 years of my life.
The image above was created from gathering all of the significant named characters from released Marvel Studios movies as documented on the Marvel Movies wikia.
It’s pretty sad. As you can see, only 22% of the characters are women and half of them are love interests. There are over twice as many supporting characters who are men than women (and none of them function as love interests like the women do.) 84% of the characters are white.
Out of all the films, Thor probably does the best in introducing diverse side characters. Natalie Portman and Kat Denning’s characters pass the Bechdel test within the first five minutes, and some of the Asgardians are played by people of color including Idris Elba’s Heimdall and Tabano Asano’s Hogun. Four white women characters are introduced instead of the other films’ average of one or two. But even then, there’s no question that the main characters of the film are Thor and his brother Loki.
Marvel is working off of decades of existing properties that for years solely focused on white men and a the demographic market of white men. So it makes sense that many of the films would have an abundance of white male characters. Beyond ratios, what doesn’t make sense is that even in the comics there is also an abundance of characters of color, etc. that they are ignoring or underutilizing. There are already five completed films where the titular character is a white man, with more to come. There are no films in the works where the titular character is a person of color or a woman.
…
Women made up at least 40% of the audience of The Avengers, yet only one out of the six Avengers–Black Widow–was a woman. Women also made up 40% of attendees at this year’s ComicCon. Why, given the scarcity of female heroic leads in the existing Marvel films, did Marvel choose to announce the addition of several more male characters but only one new female character?
Read the full article at Racebending.com: On Marvel, Mandarin, and Marginalization
but what about the Blade Movies and Spawn? >_>
Spawn was not Marvel. Blade was mostly white folks except for his mother and Wright’s character in the first one.
foreverliberal:sassyfeminist:ethiopienne:candylipstick:
I honestly can’t think of anything to say right now, other than this is absolutely heartbreaking and everyone needs to see it.
reblogging again because it’s been a while since i’ve seen this on my dash.
Oh this hurts my heart
Rise dark girls.
This is so heartbreaking.
— Brittany
“It’s a global revolution everybody get down, cause when I look around the majority is brown…”
I was literally thinking about this the other day.
Like, honestly, the native peoples of most countries in the world are brown, right? And even now, looking at this map, the people who inhabit most of the countries of the world are at least brown.
So, honestly, when we complain about whitewashing or the erasure of black and brown people in advertising, stories, films, art, etc., it’s really not us wanting to insert ourselves randomly into places — it’s us wanting to see the ACTUAL representation of black and brown people. You see how much of this muhfuckin’ world we make up? How you gon’ have a whole damn country with two PoC? fuckoutta here.
this
Um ok this picture has a great message but why the fuck is it completely erasing the Pacific Islands and New Zealand? They’ve made NZ completely fucking white (/no data). Way to completely erase Maori. And then conveniently cropping this pic so Fiji, Samoa, Tonga etc aren’t even on the map?
Sorry, I don’t mean to derail this or take the attention away from the importance of this graphic but just… :/ it is erasing whole groups of PoC.
I really shouldn’t tumblr in a bad mood.
- Affirmative action, and other programs that help specific minorities, are bad.
- Having a Black History Month is bad.
- Mentioning race at all is bad.
- Reverse racism is real
- AAVE is not a legitimate form of English.
- Whitewashing isn’t a big deal.
- Anime characters are white.
- Rape jokes are always ok.
- Trans women are not real women.
- Other things I’ve probably blocked out.
Thanks Tumblr, and don’t ever tell yourself that arguing with people on the internet won’t make a difference.
I didn’t believe ALL of these things, but I was definitely in a similar position. I have tumblr and the wonderful people I follow to thank for opening my eyes. I am so much more aware and so much more committed to fighting against these attitudes.
I’ve had at least three friends I know in real life tell me how much I’ve helped changed their attitudes about SJ-related things, and even if that and signing petitions is all I can do to change the world for now, well then that’s good enough :) Keep fighting and blogging, tumblrers. We are making a difference.
I’m not taking anything away from the actors that portrayed them, I’m sure they did a fabulous job.
But why the fuck am I not allowed to wonder if people of their actual ethnicities where even allowed to audition, or even considered for the damn roles?
That this part of their history was probably erased from film depictions?
Because I’m pretty sure Lucius Fox isn’t the only minority doing work in the Gotham. The only minority with proper intelligence and not just shown to be part of some unorganised hoodlums.
I’m sorry if my question make you feel like I’m attacking Nolan… or make you feel uncomfortable, but how do you think I feel?
I really enjoyed this movie today, but upon reading up on some of the characters, I have become goddamn fucking pissed off.
RA’S AL GHUL IS NOT WHITE
TALIA AL GHUL IS NOT WHITE
BANE IS NOT WHITE
Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard and Liam Neeson all did wonderful jobs, BUT WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY…
i honestly don’t think it matters what the fuck their race is so long as they do a good job. and if it makes any difference, Laurence Fishburne is gonna play Perry WHITE in Nolan’s new Superman movie.
Are you trolling? Please tell me you’re trolling.
“i honestly don’t think it matters what the fuck their race is so long as they do a good job” - Are you white?
“and if it makes any difference, Laurence Fishburne is gonna play Perry WHITE in Nolan’s new Superman movie.” - I don’t even know how to respond to this. Is this supposed to be a legitimate point of argument?
no, i’m not trolling. and the second part was just some new info. i honestly don’t think a character’s race is important unless it’s directly tied to the story. race has no relevance to me. if a white actor does a better job than any other actor trying out for a part, then you should hire him regardless of a character’s race. if a black actor does the best job trying out, give the role to him regardless of race. what matters to me is the ability to portray a character well, and from what i know about these actors they can above and beyond how to portray a character. also, the origin of Bane’s character is rather different from the comics to fit into Nolan’s universe. i don’t see why it should be relevant that a cast of white actors was put forward if they’re good actors. seriously, why should it matter?
“race has no relevance to me.” - I have to ask again, are you white? Because a colorblind attitude is a form of racism.
“if a white actor does a better job than any other actor trying out for a part, then you should hire him regardless of a character’s race” - but did they LET people of color try out for the roles? Did they even consider casting them? Do you really think that they would cast a person of color over a white person, regardless of talent? In an ideal world, yes. But Hollywood is racist and caters to demand, which is straight white cis able-bodied males. This is not a case of Liam Neeson being better than another actor, it is institutionalized racism.
“seriously, why should it matter?” - Maybe something like this. I am assuming you are a white person, so you have grown up seeing people like you for your whole life on screen. You have no right to say that it should not matter when it seriously affects people of color.
“the origin of Bane’s character is rather different from the comics to fit into Nolan’s universe” - Nolan’s universe of white males? The film very clearly showed that Bane’s upbringing was not in Europe, even if it wasn’t specifically in South America.
Edit: I apologize for my blunt tone, I know you have good intentions, but I grow tired of explaining this to people, and I am goddamn white myself, so my tiredness is shit-all compared to what people of color go through.
I really enjoyed this movie today, but upon reading up on some of the characters, I have become goddamn fucking pissed off.
RA’S AL GHUL IS NOT WHITE
TALIA AL GHUL IS NOT WHITE
BANE IS NOT WHITE
Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard and Liam Neeson all did wonderful jobs, BUT WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY…
i honestly don’t think it matters what the fuck their race is so long as they do a good job. and if it makes any difference, Laurence Fishburne is gonna play Perry WHITE in Nolan’s new Superman movie.
Are you trolling? Please tell me you’re trolling.
“i honestly don’t think it matters what the fuck their race is so long as they do a good job” - Are you white?
“and if it makes any difference, Laurence Fishburne is gonna play Perry WHITE in Nolan’s new Superman movie.” - I don’t even know how to respond to this. Is this supposed to be a legitimate point of argument?
