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FOR THOSE WHO DON'T CARE/DON'T WANNA TALK ABOUT/ARE SICK OF ME YAPPING ABOUT THE AVATAR MOVIE, KEEP SCROLLING. THAT'S RIGHT MOVE IT ALONG GO READ THAT FANFIC OR CAPSLOCK COMM OR DAILY_YURI.
I fucking done with the Avatar movie talk. I don't care how awesome it turns out to be or that it's so bad that it's awesome. I don't care if someone makes a rifflax out of it. I don't care if my anime club is having a showing a la bootleg. I'M NOT SEEING THIS MOVIE. If I'm thinking of flouncing from two comms just because of it, something is wrong.
If you know me or have chatted with me on occasion, you would know that I'm a go-with-the-flow type of person. I will get hyper about something, but eventually I'll calm down if offered good fanfic, smut, or cookies. This is not one of those times. Few things will get me riled when brought up in fandom, but none have hit close to home like this.
I am not Inuit or Asian; I am Black and proud of it. When I was a little girl, there just weren't that many or even any show with someone like me as a MAIN character. (And please, may I request that no one show up here saying "OH~ But what about Such And-such-erson." I'm talking about me, on my own damn lj. ) Back then I didn't let it bother me, but I drew. I drew and I drew and in each of my own little head-stories some Black little girl was 'saving the day before bedtime' or 'was much too cool for seventh grade' or 'was solving mysteries with her talking dog.' And nobody else but my family and I knew about it. I wondered...how many other little girls like me drew in their binders.
Why is this so important to me? Why do I feel this way?
Because it's bad enough that there's so few cartoons that have girls doing something other than talk about fashion and boys(the afore-implied Powerpuff Girls and Pepper Ann...and even PA dealt with the whole boy-crazy thing). It's even worse when there's even less about little-girls-of-color. So when I finally find a show that obviously is attempting to do so, it's hard HARD for me to shallow that it can't happen on the big screen.
Why am I so angry at the statements made by certain people?
Because it seems on one hand, they(the privileged and the ignorant) say that "You're getting angry for nothing/at the wrong people/at something that can't be beat." On the other, other 'theys'(the I-wanna-be-allowed-to-say-nigger-sooo-bad-ers) say "You're caring too much about this/should be giving to charity/are being PC go save whales or something." I hate being told what to do. DON'T tell me how to feel or what to feel. That's why I'M angry. (And I plead again, don't come here saying "Well, don't tell ME what to feel!" I'm not doing that, I'm just trying to get you to understand where I'm coming from)
Do these 'theys' think that this is IT? Have they ever heard of 'tip of the iceberg'?
No. Because they don't understand/don't want to understand. Some think that letting things be is to way to go. "It's a system," they cry, "It's unbeatable." However, as we are all learning in out new millennium, icebergs CAN melt and they can melt quicker than expected.
I'm just sick of certain people(see how I haven't been saying white people because it seems that some other people-of-color are also on the ignorant side...but it's mostly white people) claiming that I should get over it. Like getting a D on two of your finals, it's one of those things that will ALWAYS affect your GPA. This isn't like school where you could try to get it marked up to a C-, though, it's ALWAYS going to badly affect your score because it's permanent.
This whole damn thing is affecting the way I deal with things i.e. just-go-with-the-flow. Maybe it's because it's something I've tried to ignore. Maybe it's a good thing. All I know is that I'm not doing this on purpose. Being angry gives me headaches and those I do not want. I don't like being angry but damn if if I don't need an aspirin right now.
AND I WASN'T EVEN GOING TO SEE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE WAT THE HELL
No more of this damnit! I promise myself and anyone that reads this that I won't type about this here anymore! My blood pressure can't taaaaake eeeeet~
I fucking done with the Avatar movie talk. I don't care how awesome it turns out to be or that it's so bad that it's awesome. I don't care if someone makes a rifflax out of it. I don't care if my anime club is having a showing a la bootleg. I'M NOT SEEING THIS MOVIE. If I'm thinking of flouncing from two comms just because of it, something is wrong.
If you know me or have chatted with me on occasion, you would know that I'm a go-with-the-flow type of person. I will get hyper about something, but eventually I'll calm down if offered good fanfic, smut, or cookies. This is not one of those times. Few things will get me riled when brought up in fandom, but none have hit close to home like this.
I am not Inuit or Asian; I am Black and proud of it. When I was a little girl, there just weren't that many or even any show with someone like me as a MAIN character. (And please, may I request that no one show up here saying "OH~ But what about Such And-such-erson." I'm talking about me, on my own damn lj. ) Back then I didn't let it bother me, but I drew. I drew and I drew and in each of my own little head-stories some Black little girl was 'saving the day before bedtime' or 'was much too cool for seventh grade' or 'was solving mysteries with her talking dog.' And nobody else but my family and I knew about it. I wondered...how many other little girls like me drew in their binders.
Why is this so important to me? Why do I feel this way?
Because it's bad enough that there's so few cartoons that have girls doing something other than talk about fashion and boys(the afore-implied Powerpuff Girls and Pepper Ann...and even PA dealt with the whole boy-crazy thing). It's even worse when there's even less about little-girls-of-color. So when I finally find a show that obviously is attempting to do so, it's hard HARD for me to shallow that it can't happen on the big screen.
Why am I so angry at the statements made by certain people?
Because it seems on one hand, they(the privileged and the ignorant) say that "You're getting angry for nothing/at the wrong people/at something that can't be beat." On the other, other 'theys'(the I-wanna-be-allowed-to-say-nigger-sooo-bad-ers) say "You're caring too much about this/should be giving to charity/are being PC go save whales or something." I hate being told what to do. DON'T tell me how to feel or what to feel. That's why I'M angry. (And I plead again, don't come here saying "Well, don't tell ME what to feel!" I'm not doing that, I'm just trying to get you to understand where I'm coming from)
Do these 'theys' think that this is IT? Have they ever heard of 'tip of the iceberg'?
No. Because they don't understand/don't want to understand. Some think that letting things be is to way to go. "It's a system," they cry, "It's unbeatable." However, as we are all learning in out new millennium, icebergs CAN melt and they can melt quicker than expected.
I'm just sick of certain people(see how I haven't been saying white people because it seems that some other people-of-color are also on the ignorant side...but it's mostly white people) claiming that I should get over it. Like getting a D on two of your finals, it's one of those things that will ALWAYS affect your GPA. This isn't like school where you could try to get it marked up to a C-, though, it's ALWAYS going to badly affect your score because it's permanent.
This whole damn thing is affecting the way I deal with things i.e. just-go-with-the-flow. Maybe it's because it's something I've tried to ignore. Maybe it's a good thing. All I know is that I'm not doing this on purpose. Being angry gives me headaches and those I do not want. I don't like being angry but damn if if I don't need an aspirin right now.
AND I WASN'T EVEN GOING TO SEE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE WAT THE HELL
No more of this damnit! I promise myself and anyone that reads this that I won't type about this here anymore! My blood pressure can't taaaaake eeeeet~
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Everyone that is a fan of the show should be deeply offended by the choice in casting.
For what it's worth, I have no plans to see the movie either. And I'm a middle aged white woman.
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Not seeing the movie=good idea. Seems like a waste of time.
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I hadn't realized there were people who weren't upset about this... ugh. Part of the appeal of Avatar is the ethnic diversity. It's refreshing to see a diverse cast. And considering that the show is so thoroughly entrenched in Asian culture, it seriously boggles the mind that they feel the need to cast Caucasian actors. And it also really upsets me to learn that people aren't even just a little miffed by this. Frankly, I think we should all be pissed off and outraged and we've got damn good reason to be, regardless of color.
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See, these are the people who think that because we've elected a Black president that RACISM IS OVER GAIZ LOLOL. ...Er, no.
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I still say they choose the one guy for Sokka just to tack on something about having the kid from Twilight in it. And bleh, this movie will be a trainwreck, I think.
Also, with M. Knight directing, I bet it'll be a twist like "OH LOOK ITS REALLY THIS KIDS DREAM EL OH EL SEE? WHAT A TWIST! LIKE MY OTHER MOVIES!"
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Yeah, wannabe-Sokka just sound like a fool for saying 'All I need is a tan~'. Actually, by calling him a fool, I'm equating him with Sokka(lol) so I'll just ignore his ignorant behind.
LOL! I hope that's what it'll turn out to be as it is incredibly lame. A lame ending is what this whole idea deserves. >:p
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I can see this being like the next Twilight movie - The only ones to really love it will be hardcore fans.
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I saw one person arguing that the casting department weren't in the wrong because it was a different world, and therefore there weren't any Asians/etc... on that planet. So they could interpret it anyway they wanted to. Which wasn't quite hitting the marker, cause sure it's a different world BUT the character's were designed after racial groups in our world. They should have cast the girl from Whale Rider (if she was still young enough) for the Avatar movie.