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novakconstruction:

I’m serious where are the pictures of black girls in cute outfits against pink backgrounds where are the Indian girls sitting on a bench looking at their white-sneaker clad feet where are the brown hands holding up signs with inspirational quotes where are the pictures of Latina girls laughing with their friends on a beach where are the brown legs coming out from the bottom of a white pleated skirt where are the aesthetic pictures of people with darker skin

Hollywood Has No Business Case for Booking All-White Casts

theatlantic.com
Blaming the lack of diversity on customer preference, a recent analysis suggests, is an irresponsible punt.

jessehimself:

The relative rarity of diverse casts might suggest that they have little money-making potential, but after parsing the data, the researchers came to the conclusion that audiences don’t reject films with diverse lead actors—they actually prefer them. According to Kuppuswamy and Younkin, adding more black actors in principal roles had a beneficial effect on box-office outcomes. The films that had only one black lead actor performed about as well as those films that had none. But films that had two or more black actors playing main roles performed even better, boosting box-office revenues by more than 60 percent compared to films that didn’t have any black lead actors.

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sadtit:

when weird old ladies are like “oh nooo!!!!  (male celebrity) is gay…. what a waste…. there go my chances…” like… what chance did u even have in the first place dorothy.  he’s a millionaire

im dorothy

utterlyafk:

It’s autism acceptance month so I thought it was a good time to do another one of my doodles. Functioning labels are something that’ve been bothering me for a while.

As always, I’m sure there are spelling/grammar mistakes, despite checking it 3 billion times I’m sure something will have escaped my notice.

This is a very popular view in the autistic community but I don’t claim to represent the views of all autistic people.

Going from memory I think @butterflyinthewell @neurowonderful and @autisticliving have a lot to say about functioning labels so I’m just gonna hopefully wave my bad doodle from a tiny blog at the cool kids :D