becketted:

stardust-rain:

the-stonedsoldier:

Listen, I know everyone’s pissed about Doctor Strange (me included) and I’ve seen a lot of completely rational posts about boycotting the movie when it’s released. But I’ve also been on this trash site and in this trash fandom long enough to know that this needs to be said: Nobody has to boycott the movie, and if somebody does chose to go and see the movie, that doesn’t make them some gross racism promoting scumbag. I’m just really tired of the whole “this thing is problematic so nobody can enjoy it” attitude that a lot of people on this website have. I won’t be going to see the movie, and I encourage everyone else to at least avoid paying for it, but if you’re excited about the movie I’m not going to stop you, because I’m not a total asshole. 

oh my god i am so fucking tired of this milquetoast activism that doubles as apologism coming from white allies and I’m not surprised that it’s 90% white people reblogging this.

if Asians and other POC want to see this movie, it’s another issue because that is an intra-community discussion but you, op, as a white person do not get to say what is or is not racist especially when you’re speaking to (and about) a white-majority fandom.

you, a white person, do not get a voice talking about a system that was created for you, that you personally benefit from.

you, white person, do not get to speak on what is a good “anti-racist ally” or not.

Because you’re literally telling white people that actively financially supporting a racist system that they can choose not to support doesn’t make them racist.

this isn’t about “liking a problematic movie” this is about financially supporting something that is literally founded in being dehumanising and white supremacist. 

There is a difference between enjoying something despite its problems and enjoying something because of them.

There is media that tries to do right (or at least, tries not to actively do wrong) but fails in certain aspects, and there is media that is grounded in doing wrong because it was founded on racist ideas and Dr Strange is quite literally the second. 

This movie is directly based on neo-colonialist ideals and white supremacist narrative of white consumption of Asian cultures and “mighty whitey” archetype. It is founded on a bunch of white people appropriating Asian culture while erasing and diminishing us from the story. It uses orientalist, Asian-coded villains and puts white people in yellowface. If you take that away…what do you have left? two squinty, thin-lipped white guys you thirst over? The Dr Strange plotline hinges on him learning “Asian mysticism” from a white-woman in Tibetan clothing to gain his powers and using it against Asian-coded villains in yellowface while being served by an Asian “manservant”. Furthermore, the entire basis of it erases Tibetan culture (that was actually present in the comics) just to please the Chinese censors and furthers the oppression of Tibetan people . 

This movie did not come out of nowhere. Media does not exist in a vacuum – more importantly, the media system and the systematic process of media production that propagates and favours this kind of movie and this kind of narrative does not exist in a vacuum. All this is borne from a system of whiteness that is directly supported by people putting money in Marvel’s pockets - white people support and benefit from that system because it was literally created with them in mind. 

One person’s ticket doesn’t count for much in the long run, but the point is that a majority of the audience think exactly the same thing that this post suggests. They don’t need any goddamn “soothing encouragement” or “friendly reminder that it’s okay to like problematic stuff uwuwuwu” to see this movie because this is the kind of attitude that Marvel encourages. it encourages passivity. It encourages desensitisation. It invests in the audience being able to ignore the movie’s blatant racism. 

movies like Dr Strange (and American Sniper before that and the Interview before that and Lucy before that) banks on idea that the audience is both indifferent and desensitised to non-white people being erased, made the butt of jokes and dehumanised.

Marvel execs are betting on being “too big to fail” because they are counting on people being able to ignore what they’ve done, so they (and other studios) can carry on doing it, because this is proof that you can uphold white supremacist ideals by blatantly erasing poc from our own stories and get away with it. 

if your enjoyment of a piece of media is based on the fact that it dehumanises the people it appropriates from and being able to ignore that because you can turn a blind eye and deaf ear, then yes, you are part of the problem.

Paying money towards that means supporting that perspective from not only them, but from Hollywood studios across the board.  So yes, if you support this movie, you’re directly influencing and promoting that decision and that attitude because you’re putting money in the pockets who are creating racist narratives and proving them right. It gives them incentive to keep doing it. 

Look, I can’t tell white people to not go see the movie (what am i gonna do? confiscate their tickets? stop them at the theatre?) but if you do go see it, you need to think long and hard about why you call yourself “anti-racist ally” because at this point all you’re doing is to make yourself look good. White privilege means being able to opt out of activism, and you’re using it for exactly that. 

Because you’re literally telling white people that actively financially supporting a racist system that they can choose not to support doesn’t make them racist.

this isn’t about “liking a problematic movie” this is about financially supporting something that is literally founded in being dehumanising and white supremacist.

This. I encourage my fellow white Marvel fans to reblog this too. Enjoying something problematic and using your money to support products that perpetuate oppression are two very different things. It’s really easy for us to hit reblog in every social justice post we see and talk about how racist Marvel is but what does it matter if we continue giving them money even though we know what they’ll keep using it for?

thehomielizzie:

lesbocracy:

hollifo:

terufrying:

“gays will push their sexuality onto their children”

funny because that’s exactly what every straight person does.

“Look at little Emma and her future husband! SO cute!”
(literally two 3 month olds flailing on a baby mat)  

“Ooh, a friend? Is Samantha your GIRLFRIEND, Johnny?”
(4 year old boy expressing he has made a friend at school) 

“You’ve been friends with Michael for a while now haven’t you? Would you like to marry him when you’re older?”
(8 year old girl, male best friend)

“He’s such a ladies’ man!” (tiny infant responding positively and smiling vacantly in response to the attention of adult human women) 

thank you for opening my mind to this. never thought of it this way.