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Why Sailor Moon Matters – The New Anime and Media Representation
A Tasting Menu of Female Representation:
The best fans on the planet (or on the Ark). No contest. <3 the100ratingsproject: This blog is all about a plan to help the 100 get ratings, trending topics, and good social media representation in polls. That isn’t to say that the show has bad
Representation and why it matters
yesysabella: amysantiaago-moved-deactivated2: “It just shows you how important it is to represent everyone in our profession.” (x) MEDIA REPRESENTATION IS IMPORTANT
jenroses: aiyumedayori: Hey children, Did You Know? Representation isn’t exclusively important for the people being represented!!! White kids need to watch POC being heroes too!!! It shows them that people can save the day regardless of their race!!!
nerdsagainstfandomracism: Idris Elba: Speech on diversity in the media and film I’m here to talk about diversity. Diversity in the modern world is more than just skin colour. It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background,
stillspaces:can white women just ADMIT that all the lead female representation in media lately has been white? woc aren’t saying that the representation is useless or bad, we’re obviously excited to see star wars and mad max too. but it’s not that
dailykellymarie: Actress Loan Tran speaks up for the first time after leaving social media because of the online hate she recieved in this piece she wrote for New York Times.
When The Media Treats White Suspects And Killers Better Than Black Victicms.
me-ya-ri: How media clearly reflects the sexism and the racism we cannot see in ourselves. carnivaloftherandom: saathi1013: bana05: letthetruthlaugh-blog: I wanted my first-year film students to understand what happens to a story when actual human
saladinahmed: Questions you should ask yourself about your Strong Female Character. From this excellent article: http://t.co/efkvvUqsum
wolvensnothere: fromzimbabwee: marylinj: yesysabella: amysantiaago-moved-deactivated2: “It just shows you how important it is to represent everyone in our profession.” (x) MEDIA REPRESENTATION IS IMPORTANT I will re-blog this and the
Black Light Guides You
dwarfbending: cornerof5thandvermouth: eichenschild: Can you please leave your social justice bullshit out of the Hobbit fandom? Or any fandom that is? Be pissed off with what’s happening in the real world but accept fiction as what it is: fiction.
sea-dyke: It’s ok to be gay for hetero’s entertainment, but G-d forbid you actually want real representation in fandom or the media
gloriouspondchester: what do you mean there’s not enough queer representation in media? those two white guys look at each other all the time
mechabre: the trend of dead anime moms is actually sort of troubling from a feminist perspective but im not feeling articulate enough to voice my opinions so im just going to leave it at that The “dead anime moms” trope is dangerously close
hemanarlelt: okay anon heres the thing…part of the reason i draw trans characters is actually BECAUSE of fetishizing. the VAST majority of characters in media are either explicitly cis or assumed to be cis, and when trans characters are introduced
yennranmma: whenever “strong female characters” insult men by calling them girls my eyes roll so far back in my head i can see my brain cells die
archetypalboner: when people reblog posts about queer media interpretations to say “ok well you can read it that way but i don’t think that’s what the writer intended” like wow thanks we’d all magically forgotten that the vast majority of people
CW developing first mainstream show about a trans character
gundamtanaks: (pssst) (trans people have existed for literally centuries) (non-binary people too) (the only reason you hear more about trans people now is because its actually a little more safe to explore your gender than ever before) (did you think
durendals: idk i think “platonic relationships are as important as romantic relationships” is a valid point to make it’s just always made about relationships between two people of the same gender, and that’s not cool
Kelly Sue DeConnick on Female Representation in Comics
gaywrites: “How the Media Failed Women in 2013,” courtesy of Miss Representation. This is mind-boggling and you must watch it right now.
And I'm so fucking beautiful I can't stand it
holidaywithnuts: Why is it always ‘queer people are projecting their identities onto characters’ and never ‘straight people are presuming that their identity is the default’?
horticulturalcephalopod: shadowroseknight24: Why are we shitting on a kids movie? It’s a movie, calm the fuck down. If you liked it, awesome. If you hate it, alrighty. Just stop. I’ve seen this presentation so many times that it’s stupid.
oncomingstorm: why are queer characters never allowed to have love interests bc thats “making the story all about their sexuality” but a straight male character in a movie entirely about his romance with a female love interest isnt making it all
lornacrowleys: if you look into your mirror at midnight and whisper “dumbledore doesnt really count as queer representation” a legion of straight people will appear in your room and start screaming
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glowcloud: i love when straight people think that a gay character being included “without it even being a thing“ (e.g. dumbledore) is this perfect progressive representation. it makes sense because thats how they want me: silent, complacent,
christinaposabule: this random ass background character is gay. representation. these blurry people in the background for 2 seconds are black. representation
deadtrohman: ok but consider this: nonbinary representation
holidaywithnuts: Why is it always “queer people are projecting their identities onto characters” and never “straight people are presuming that their identity is the default”?
maximustrashagon: “what about a lesbian princess” always seems to lead to two answers what about a gay prince? what about a female princess that doesn’t hinge on a love plot? what about I didn’t ask for your shitty opinion I asked for
kyousuke-kamijo: CH AraCTER ATTract ted to !! !!! MORe than ONE GENDER???????/ ? impoSsible. ARe they the homogay or the heterostraight IS THE ONLY #jeff davis#wrt criminal minds#also possibly teen wolf goddammit blythe you don’t even watch
yourmediahasproblems: a girl once told me that we didn’t need disabled representation in the media because “the media is where we go to forget about our problems” sorry, I didn’t realize that disabled people are “problems” we need to get
The ~guys v. girls~ Top Chef ads bother me, because the taglines are two entirely different messages. “Is THAT all you got, boys?”=There’s competition taking place. It’s guys versus girls yeah!!!!!!!! Show me what you got!!!!!!
byronegg: Picture Imperfect —- Something for Teaching Tolerance magazine to accompany a story about how most children’s books and libraries lack a diverse perspective. AD Valerie Downes.
sorry everyone I have a confession to make: I read characters as trans because I don’t have any media representation and need to make it myself through headcanons. I’ve been found out. Please forgive me.
courfeyradical: emphasisonthehomo: Queer subtext in media is nice and all, but have you considered: Including actual queer characters instead of vague metaphors for queer characters. #its a metaphor#you hold the queer character near subtext#but you
condesces: when most people would agree that a character is “crazy” but disagree when you say the character is mentally ill
watershiphobbits: I want more queer friendship stories. Not just stories where the only two queer people find each other and fall in unhealthy codependent love in a sea of cishets. Give me whole communities of queer people. Give me queer best friends
deadlydinos: “Stop overanalyzing children’s stories” Stop deliberately feeding children nothing but whitewashed sexist cishet stories during their formative years to perpetuate your oppressive ideologies A child will not die from shock
cindymayweather: “One fun fact I learned while on the air with Keith Olbermann was that humans on the Internet are scumbags. People say children are cruel, but I was never made fun of as a child or an adult. Suddenly, my disability on the world
mariowiki: Seeing queer representation in the media like
stonecoldstunning: queer representation isnt queer representation if its some easter egg to be revealed by a creator so they could pat themselves on the back
'Walking Dead' Star Steven Yeun Is Writing and Producing His Own Projects to Create Better Roles For Asian Actors - TheWrap
canonqueer: straight person commenting on bad representation: I love how its not even made into *A Thing* (:
theshriekingsisterhood: Things I’d like to see more of in media characters wearing medical alert bracelets characters taking medication with their meals characters mentioning that they have a therapy appointment characters with reminders to eat in
cobrall: please stop making comics about the stereotypical jock boy beating up the stereotypical nerd boy and somehow incorporating love. do not write them under posts about physical indicators of soulmates (glowing chests, names on wrists) and better
No one anticipates the sunset flip
vertigoats: jk rowling sits atop her billion dollar throne and waves a hand laconically while scattering microscopic crumbs of representation well after her book series is completed and people still roll around praising her like she’s the goddamn second
ohnoproblems:trying to excuse transmisogyny in children’s media by saying “it’s just a joke! don’t try to complicate things! the kids will only see it as a joke!” means you only care about cis kids. because for us trans ladies, no matter when
m-azing: I would actually LOVE if a writer said something like “actually, I did not write any gay characters in my story, and I did not realize it until you pointed this out. now that I’ve been given a chance to really think about why there ARENT
LGBT Laughs: Appeal to Cartoon Network: Stop Censorship
gryphonburger: holyromanhomo: zodiacbaby: vitaeaureliana: psychoticmusichead: LITERALLY There’s literally 12 million gays that look like this already why do you homos need another option 1. Bisexual and sexually fluid representation is cool
