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Oyceter ([personal profile] oyceter) wrote2007-04-23 12:41 pm
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  • [livejournal.com profile] shewhohashope posted on beauty standards and skin color in relation to a new school video made on the old Brown vs. Board "pick the doll that is the nicest (etc.)" experiment. There's a link to the video from her post as well. I have to say, I am getting more and more annoyed with romance novels waxing on and on about how fair and pale and luminous the heroine's skin is. Probably accurate by historical standards, but I particularly want to smack the contemporaries and fantasies that do this.


  • And now for the less serious! [livejournal.com profile] heresluck has been watching Heroes (whoo!) and posts on race and class in the show, among other things. (vague spoilers through 1x18)


  • And saving the most squeeful for last... [livejournal.com profile] vonnie_k HAS BEEN WATCHING HONEY & CLOVER! She likes it! She really, really likes it! *dies from squee* I now repimp the series and direct you all to the torrents because it is quite possibly my absolute mostest favorite anime series and possibly even TV series ever, I love it that much! Also, maybe I will rewatch some episodes tonight, lalala.
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[personal profile] oyceter 2007-04-23 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG yes. I still remember picking up Elizabeth Bear's Hammered and realizing that the kickass female assassin character in future!Hartford was Chinese.

It's just... part of me is so sad that just seeing a non-white character makes me so happy, because what does that say about all the things I'm reading and watching now? And another part is really sad and angry whenever this gets brought up and all the writers and artists protest that they must not have their artistic license trampled on, because dude. It's so small, and it makes such a big difference, and people still just don't want to do it.
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[personal profile] chomiji 2007-04-23 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)


That's why I was so ticked off by that recent Earthsea travesty. That's a series that made a lot of difference to many young SF&F fans. And the producers of that thing had the nerve to claim that they were doing race-blind casting!


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[personal profile] oyceter 2007-04-23 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooof yes! And I keep wanting to see Ghibli's version of Earthsea, except they're all white too. Wargh.
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[personal profile] chomiji 2007-04-24 03:13 am (UTC)(link)


Oh NO!!! The Ghibli one is all-white too? > feels nauseated <



Dammit, that's a story that deserves to be told properly! And Le Guin deserves to see it done properly before she dies, too...



:-(


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