Thread for race issues in media.
Birth Of a Nation
This movie isn't do so good. I think this is because black people are tired of slave type movies, white people don't want the white guilt, and everybody else is turned off by the rape case. I mean this in general. This is just a perfect storm for the downfall of the movie.
Surviving Compton
Straight out of compton left out the ladies. This lifetime show means to correct that. I believe all of the production was done by women.
Mulan live.
All Chinese cast. Maybe the dumb choices of Gods of Egypt are over.
edit: eh, then again, this would not make the world a better place.
Baron Of Hell wrote:Baron Of Hell wrote:Not sure if sports would be considered media. Anyway I've been following a bit on the half Japanese half Haitian tennis player Naomi Osaka
She was born in Japan but lived most of her life in the US. The article says she is representing Japan though.
Just seen all the drama over the Serena Naomi match. To bad Naomi's win was soured by the drama. I think Serena was correct though in stating it wouldn't have happen in a mens match.
Yeah did John McEnroe ever get penalized for his anger management issues? If anything I feel like his on court antics only earned him endearment.
Edit: looked it up and he was fined many times and got himself a point penalty, but never a full game penalty. Given how much more often he expressed anger on the court however, one is inclined to think he got off pretty lightly.
He got a dq when he lost count of how many infractions in a match he had incurred and went one too many.
The analyst on Belgian TV said yesterday that this specific ref is known as a very strict one, and one that isn't afraid to go hard on male stars either. She also said though that in general it's absolutely the case that men get more leeway with verbal aggression. The sideline coaching rules are even more laughable. Is forbidden officially, but everyone does it.
Someone put up a bunch of youtube videos of the refs calls and calls from other people. The latest one from this ref being from the french open of 2017 and none having game penalties.
That's sad and unsurprising.
Baron Of Hell wrote:Baron Of Hell wrote:Not sure if sports would be considered media. Anyway I've been following a bit on the half Japanese half Haitian tennis player Naomi Osaka
She was born in Japan but lived most of her life in the US. The article says she is representing Japan though.
Just seen all the drama over the Serena Naomi match. To bad Naomi's win was soured by the drama. I think Serena was correct though in stating it wouldn't have happen in a mens match.
Yeah did John McEnroe ever get penalized for his anger management issues? If anything I feel like his on court antics only earned him endearment.
Edit: looked it up and he was fined many times and got himself a point penalty, but never a full game penalty. Given how much more often he expressed anger on the court however, one is inclined to think he got off pretty lightly.
McEnroe has been given a game penalty before. He’s even one of the rare ones who’s been disqualified from an entire match for poor behaviour.
Interestingly a few refs are considering boycotting Serena's games.
They need to spend more time cutting up their Nike gear.
When she's losing games she's also losing her temper it seems.
When she's losing games she's also losing her temper it seems.
Amazing amount of perception you seem to have! How were you able to sort through all the variables to come to such a novel conclusion?
In other news, baseball players that strike out tend to react much differently than ones that hit home runs. Seems to be worth investigating!
In other news, baseball players that strike out tend to react much differently than ones that hit home runs. Seems to be worth investigating!
Jayhawker wrote:In other news, baseball players that strike out tend to react much differently than ones that hit home runs. Seems to be worth investigating!
That gentleman appears to be African-American. Please stand by as I draw a political cartoon in which I depict him with exaggerated features acting in a manic way. Surely I’m not being racist despite hundreds of years of political cartoons doing that very thing.
Jayhawker wrote:In other news, baseball players that strike out tend to react much differently than ones that hit home runs. Seems to be worth investigating!
that's me with toothpicks
liquid wrote:When she's losing games she's also losing her temper it seems.
Amazing amount of perception you seem to have! How were you able to sort through all the variables to come to such a novel conclusion?
I've used my super fine-tuned powers of deduction. However, those powers have yet to help me figure out why this is being talked about in a thread like this.
Jayhawker wrote:liquid wrote:When she's losing games she's also losing her temper it seems.
Amazing amount of perception you seem to have! How were you able to sort through all the variables to come to such a novel conclusion?
I've used my super fine-tuned powers of deduction. However, those powers have yet to help me figure out why this is being talked about in a thread like this.
Because sports for most of us basically are media and the biggest sports organizations regularly prove themselves just as racist and bigoted as a lot of other media?
I might be more likely to side with the org in this case, players losing their sh*t on refs is never a good look, but we literally just watched the whole catsuit mess happen in just the last couple weeks. That was *total bullsh*t*. So the org gets absolutely zero benefit of the doubt here.
Racist in one way, likely racist in others.
liquid wrote:Jayhawker wrote:liquid wrote:When she's losing games she's also losing her temper it seems.
Amazing amount of perception you seem to have! How were you able to sort through all the variables to come to such a novel conclusion?
I've used my super fine-tuned powers of deduction. However, those powers have yet to help me figure out why this is being talked about in a thread like this.
Because sports for most of us basically are media and the biggest sports organizations regularly prove themselves just as racist and bigoted as a lot of other media?
I might be more likely to side with the org in this case, players losing their sh*t on refs is never a good look, but we literally just watched the whole catsuit mess happen in just the last couple weeks. That was *total bullsh*t*. So the org gets absolutely zero benefit of the doubt here.
Racist in one way, likely racist in others.
On the local forum, the same people who started and contributed the the “Tiger Woods is a miserable person” threads last month, when his major transgression was playing at a higher level than he has for years moved on to “Serena is an embarrassment” this month.
But, you know, folks that constantly are “concererned” or “confused” about the actions of minorities constantly end up in threads wondering why people question their motives. But white folks all have an uncle or other relative that pulls the same “confusion” even though everyone is aware of their constant “concerns” as well as their history of “accidentally” saying other racist and offensive things.
It’s not only blacks that see and have an issue with the game racist concern trolls play, asking “innocent” questions to set up the perfect “Gotcha!” But white male fragility is a hell of a drug.
liquid wrote:Jayhawker wrote:liquid wrote:When she's losing games she's also losing her temper it seems.
Amazing amount of perception you seem to have! How were you able to sort through all the variables to come to such a novel conclusion?
I've used my super fine-tuned powers of deduction. However, those powers have yet to help me figure out why this is being talked about in a thread like this.
Because sports for most of us basically are media and the biggest sports organizations regularly prove themselves just as racist and bigoted as a lot of other media?
I might be more likely to side with the org in this case, players losing their sh*t on refs is never a good look, but we literally just watched the whole catsuit mess happen in just the last couple weeks. That was *total bullsh*t*. So the org gets absolutely zero benefit of the doubt here.
Racist in one way, likely racist in others.
Also, the way Serena gets drug tested exponentially more than other players, including people who have doped.
I tend to be a bit of a stickler for rules, but ignoring the inequities in enforcement Williams in particular faces demonstrates a special kind of regard for rules over justice.
Instead of denying they are gay the producers should have just said they didn't give them any sexual attraction to either gender like most puppets.
That is the response from Sesame Workshop.
They probably should have a clearly gay couple though on the same level as kermit and piggy.
They do. Their names are Bert and Ernie.
I don't know why my twitter feed is blowing up with this story.
In my experience, the reactions go something like this:
The Sane: "Neat! Anyway, as I was saying..."
Reactionary Twitter: "WHY DO PEOPLE MAKE A BIG DEAL OUT OF THIS!! RABBLERABBLERABBLE!!"
Avenue Q did a much better job of handling this issue.
Voice actress talks about colorism in Wreck It Ralph 2
Princess to dark?Princess Tiana is lighter in skin tone from the Princess and the Frog movie.
Along with what was done with Merida postBrave, I am utterly shocked.... no wait, the other thing.
Voice actress talks about colorism in Wreck It Ralph 2
Princess to dark?Princess Tiana is lighter in skin tone from the Princess and the Frog movie.
What was cool about that link was that I didn't know they were going back to change the scene and make Tiana darker skinned / rounder nose and other features. I'm glad to see the backlash produced changes this time!
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