Amelie was a ballet dancer who was kidnapped, tortured, brainwashed, experimented on and forced to kill her husband and joining a terrorist organization and now she only feels alive when she kills another person she also shot out her friend’s eye after Ana showed slight hesitation in shooting her when she realized it was Amelie.
Mei was an environmentalist who lost all her colleagues in a horrific way and was compluabandoned in Antarctica and forced to survive alone and make contact with the outside world that has forgotten her.
Lucio is an activist who lead a revolution in Rio against the Vishkar corporation after they pretty much destroyed their homes, and kept them under an authoritarian corporate thumb with almost slavery labor, curfews, and exploitation. Lucio wentvagainst his own father and stole his tech in order to liberate himself and others who were slighted by Vishkar.
Ashe is a rich white girl who didn’t get enough attention and likes to play dress up.
It’s a testament to the tragedy of TLJ that when I see any commentary that legitimizes that movie and its hot takes, my final summation is always “you’re wrong and also I hate you”
I wonder when exactly it was that Star Trek stopped being perceived as light, fluffy, not-really-legitimate sci fi that ~housewives~ liked and started being seen as serious nerd business that girls had to keep their gross cooties off.
Also when did the Beatles start to be remembered as rock legends rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?
When men decided they liked them.
this is seriously exactly how it happened. Women were actually the first rock and roll ‘critics’ because they would write in to women’s papers and magazines to share and discuss what their kids were listening to when men still thought it was trashy teeny bopper music. once it became a lucrative, mainstream genre men shoved women out of the space. Men also tend to be gatekeepers once they move into formerly female spaces – early trek fandom was incredibly open and inclusive; women would set up fan get togethers in their own houses to discuss the show or invite the actors to visit before conventions became a thing, and then were huge in organizing the first conventions – but now the stereotype of a trekkie is a nerdy white dude who scoffs derisively at casual fans and newbies with his encyclopedic and pedantic knowledge of trek
j.k.r. needs like one close friend to sit her down and go: “okay, but, go over this with me again. you decided the evil snake your dark wizard kept as a pet and vessel of his fragmented horrific soul – the one that has to be murdered in order to defeat the evil wizard – is in fact….an asian woman who was cursed to eventually become a beast and monster in her own body. am i getting this right? the asian woman turns into a snake because her bloodline is cursed and then she becomes the pet of a white supremacist with magic. you invented a body curse specifically for turning women into monsters and your first thought was not like, subversion of fairy tale misogyny but….to add a layer of racism? just trying to understand here.”
Guys. The movie isn’t even out yet. Can we PLEASE watch the movie before we judge. Also.. it’s a movie about fucking wizards.. how is inventing a new curse that weird ? Nagini has always been a big mystery in HP. Finally (and for that one I’m really asking because I don’t get it, but it might be me) where is the racism ? she’s just like.. an asian actor playing one of the bad guy..that kind of sounds badass to me. Did J.K tweet some racist stuff ?
Hi! So you have written a comment that seems sufficiently confused as to why this is a problem, in a way that maybe possibly I could help you understand! Maybe you will find something enlightening in my response:
So point by point, we’ll just skip “movie not out yet” and “please watch the movie before we judge.” I’m skipping these because these are sort of silly. The point of a movie trailer is to get you to judge the movie favorably enough to go watch it and to inspire interest in the movie. So of course people are going to talk about the movie based on the trailer. Also I’m not seeing this movie because Johnny Depp is a woman abuser and I have no intention of supporting the decision to keep him casted for this film.
Moving on.
it’s a movie about fucking wizards..
Yes, it is! It’s a movie about wizards existing in the world we have in reality, but secretly. So even if you don’t want to assume that a mega-franchise fantasy series affects real life somehow, you can definitely assume real life affects the story of said fantasy.
how is inventing a new curse that weird ?
it’s not weird. In fact, I think the idea could be really interesting on the surface – so many fairy tales include various motifs of human to animal transformation, and this isn’t really new or unique in any way.
Actually as a quick diversion: this is a whole motif of fairy tales, and the Thompson index would probably place a maledictus curse under Magic –
D100.–D199. Transformation: man to animal D100.–D149.Transformation man to mammal D110.Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal)
D130.Transformation: man to domestic beast (mammal)
D150.Transformation: man to bird
D170.Transformation: man to fish
D180.Transformation: man to insect
D190.Transformation: man to reptiles and miscellaneous animals
since this isn’t about marriage to an animal or human disguised as an animal, which is in a different section of motifs, and would be under “Animal.” At least on that first website, anyways. anyways the point is that “woman transforms into animal” is not unique in any way.
The description of “maledictus” as being a curse that is passed from mother to daughter and ONLY affects women, and then curses them to eventually turn into a beast (monster-woman) who will later have no control over their form is still kind of interesting in that it fits into fairy tales fairly well as a concept but like, those fairy tales are still pretty sexist. they’re about monstrous women – and not in a fun or positive way. That is interesting IF you choose to use that or subvert it, or even make a commentary on it.
But a good subversion of “these women are cursed to become literal beasts,” doesn’t end in making them a vessel for the soul of someone who is just this side of a lich who is an evil dark wizard, and also follows the commands of said evil wizard, and then ultimately dies in the service of evil.
Just, as a start, because we know how Nagini’s story ends.
It doesn’t seem to subvert the sexism of this kind of story any, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing if the non-subversion is meant to be a critical commentary on the sexism there.
To which someone might say ‘yeah, watch the movie first,’ and to which I respond: a critical commentary of misogyny in your own work of fiction is ultimately meaningless if it is acted out by a man who beats women in real life.
So the next point, which is the racism:
(and for that one I’m really asking because I don’t get it, but it might be me) where is the racism ? she’s just like.. an asian actor playing one of the bad guy..that kind of sounds badass to me.
Let’s just look at this:
1. A Naga/Nāgī/Nāgiṇī is a creature of religious uh…presence in South asia, and parts of South East Asia, but not really East Asia. It originates (as far as I know) in Hinduism and spread to buddhism. In this sense, you ought to cast a South Asian actor, not an East Asian one, just in general.
Like, Naga/Nagini women:
Nagini in this movie:
2. “Dragon Lady” is an extremely racist stereotype used against Asian Women that was popularized in the 1930′s, so contemporary to the actual setting of this film, if I recall correctly. Here’s Anna May Wong in “Daughter of the Dragon.”
It’s a stereotype used alongside “yellow peril” racism – it fetishizes asian women as exotic/mysterious/dangerous and sexual. And it often does so with actual dragons and/or scales. It may be in line with the idea of a 30′s “femme fatale,” but this is specifically about sexualizing asian women beyond that in racialized ways.
so the fact that nagini is an east asian woman who ends up being a villainess and is cursed to become a snake and lose all her humanity and at some point becomes the submissive pet to a racist white dude….ends up being a racist storyline. there’s no….good way to play this out because i know this ends in her becoming a snake that gets murdered.
I wonder what goes on the heads of people who reblog and marvel at obviously fake text posts…like that super long r/eylo post about some 35-y/o going to the store with her Kylo getup and getting chastised by a teenager, before said teenager’s mom comes out of nowhere and yells at their daughter for criticizing a ~totally canon ship
I really am a Scorpio Moon bc I was ready to make a flouncy post that was all “I’m sure you have noticed that I don’t really post Star Wars anymore” just now like anyone cares
idc if its my teensy weensy poc colored sjw feelings or whatever but i am sick to fucking death of pairings between two characters where one is significantly darker than the other being portrayed in fanworks because every single time, without fail, you all will find a way to make the browner, darker character big and huge and if not youll darkwash the bigger character even to really drive home how masculine and big and powerful you think dark skin is…like literally id rather have no sorry excuse of #interracial ships or whatever the fuck if it means people are going to pull this shit LOL it really gets on my goddamn nerves LMFAO
also: white girls need to shut the fuck up about feminism and these fucking disney movies. Tiana and Mulan are the only ones with real ass jobs, and you all only like the Fr*zen broads bc every princess since BATB (Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana) has been a woman of color and you obviously cannot stand it, just fucking so
everyone over the age of 12 needs to hop off That Snowflake Movie’s dick. Everybody else can live their lives
Look i dont wanna sound like a Fandom Mom or whatever but what do you think women over 25 or so are supposed to do? Do u really think theyre supposed to drop all their interests and just talk about taxes and marriage or whatever? It seems like 25+ year old fanboys do not receive this kind of “ooh cringe” reaction either. There are guys in their 40s with comic book collections and shit and people might think theyre a nerd at worst, not a freak who shouldnt be trusted
The issue most people have with “fandom moms” its how they keept interacting with kids the same way they do with adults, like no one is telling people to drop their interest, they are telling them to share that interest with people their age
One of the responses I’ve seen a lot to black women requesting a black woman in Overwatch, especially in response to the fact that there are six white women in the game is “but even the white women are diverse, they’re all from different countries!” and yeah, they are, but like, they’re all from Europe. They’re from England, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, France, and Russia respectively. And each of these countries has their own vibrant culture, but I’m curious why you don’t assign that level of diversity to Africa. An African hero from Tunisia or Morocco would be completely different from an African hero from South Africa which would be completely different from an Ethiopian hero, and all of these would be different from Numbani. Even outside of Africa, you could make a black woman hero from Georgia or Ecuador or Montreal or Haiti and they would be completely different.
You could add six black woman heroes and have them be more diverse than the six existing white women, but only if you stop viewing black people as a monolith.
This also applies to people going “well I’m Argentinian and I don’t need an Argentinian hero!” Okay..? People aren’t asking for specifically a Senegalese woman hero or a Jamaican woman hero, they’re asking for a black woman hero. It’s not exactly a narrow category.
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