jaredduck:

giving an actor a second chance means letting ryan reynolds and ben affleck play deadpool and batman even though the last superhero movies they did weren’t successful, it doesn’t mean giving a man who beat up his wife movie roles like nothing happened

mckitterick:

rhube:

deducecanoe:

antifainternational:

kvothe-kingkiller:

cumbrianabroad:

bethrevis:

Look, when I say “representation matters,” I believe that the most important thing is for people who are often ignored in arts and media to see themselves there. 

But I also mean that it’s important for white/hetero people to see people who aren’t white/hetero. 

Here’s the thing. I was raised in a very white/hetero community. Every friend I had was white. I never had a black person in my classroom until late high school. I never had a black teacher until college. There was one out-gay student at my high school. One. And I saw what shit he had to go through by being out. 

And, if I’m honest with myself, most of the adults in my life were racist and homophobic. They were good, loving people…to me. But they were also racist and homophobic. 

And as a kid through my teen years, I’d be lying if I didn’t say that didn’t affect me. I parrotted the adults in my life, which meant that I often parrotted their hate and their prejudice. I’m ashamed of those attitudes now–now that I’ve had education and met people who were different from me and travelled the world and put aside hate. 

But then? It was easy to excuse racism. People who weren’t white and straight didn’t exist in my world–and they didn’t exist in the world I saw on television and in books and on the radio. It was easier to live in the bubble of that world. 

Representation matters to white people, too. It is important for white people to see diversity. Not as a token, not as “politically correct”–the white people who feel that adding a minority character to a storyline is pandering are horrible people who are entirely missing the point. I’m talking about the white kids who don’t see minorities in their lives, but who see a black girl and a white boy being friends on Sesame Street. I’m talking about the straight teen reading More Happy than Not, I’m talking about the white teen empathizing with Malala Yousafzai. The more representation we have, the more we hold a mirror through the world rather than whiting-out people who aren’t like the majority, the better our world is.

Representation matters.

I swear to god, it’s like every damn word could have come out of my own brain. Brava!

Honestly. As someone who went to a very tiny, almost completely white private school through eighth grade and then to a high school in a city with the demographics of a marvel movie (89.3% White, 0.7%African American, 0.4% Native American, 5.6% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 0.8% other races, 3.0% two or more races. 3.7% Hispanic or Latino) I never realised that the casting choices in most tv shows and movies vastly underrepresent any race that isn’t white.

I remember being confused about people saying they should hire more actors of color for movies set in like new york because thats what i legit thought the rest of the US and western europe was like.

Representation matters more than you think.

If whiney white boys would have grown up in a world where other races (and genders) were represented in their media from a young age, they wouldn’t be flipping their shit every two minutes cos there is a chick lead character or POC in a previously white role. Representation trains little white boys not to be douchecanoes.

Representation trains little white boys not to be douchecanoes.

Conscious writing can help save the world. Or at least help make it a better place for future generations.

fuckinnear:

we need conversion therapy to be illegal. we need parents to go to jail for doing this to their children. we need providers of conversion therapy to go to jail for offering a service that abuses and kills lgbt people. conversion therapy is a hate crime.

decembuary:

shout out to girls who never go to school wearing makeup and have messy hair and want to look nice but never really have the energy to because i dont see very many posts for them and i want them to know that im proud they were able to get out of bed

nichtwing:

kids, when you’re choosing your college schedule, you’ll hear a voice saying “just take the 8AM class. it won’t be that bad. you’ve done it for this long” that’s the devil talking

counting-dollars-counting-stars:

Can he bring Pence?

neroon:

Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about/realize that those vaunted “manufacturing jobs” were so great precisely thanks to the conservative bugaboos of labor unions and government regulation.  Spoiler Alert, your grandpa didn’t work in a plant making double overtime and *not* getting his hand mangled because of some weird Ayn Randian Objectivism.

fiftyshadesofdevingray:

Watching Tomi Lahren try to defend her racist comments to man who literally couldn’t leave his house for the first six years because of apartheid is probably one of the most cringeworthy things I have ever seen. But Trevor Noah handled it with such grace all the points in the world to him.