#sjw bullshit
it really boils my blood that mattel gets props for having diversity in the fashionistas line when many named, speaking poc characters in the movies don’t get dolls like isla, jenna, samantha, marcus, and genevieve off the top of my head
like this bothers me bc they put these characters in knowing they don’t have to make dolls of them so they’re “safe” diversity whereas everyone goes nuts for the nameless fashionistas you see what I mean
Don’t forget Catherine! I mean, the Christmas Carol line wasn’t that large to begin with (which is disappointing in itself) but she played such a huge role and didn’t get a doll. Same for Hailey.
Nalu and Faban in Fairytopia! (Altho Linden didn’t get a doll either; I think Carlos was the only boy to get one out of like a hundred damn dolls under the Fairytopia label)
Josette in PCS altho she and Lorraine were more minor characters.
Marco and Vivian in Puppy Chase! esp egregious bc their horses come packaged with Barbie and Chelsea lmao. also Lindsay!! she was a major character I don’t care what mattel thinks
this isn’t even going into how when we do get poc characters they sometimes have waaaay lighter skin in the animation than their dolls. DM Isla obviously comes to mind as a recent example but also Cloud Queen Rayla and Princess Ashlyn I think are prominent; or the fact that Mattel often makes AA variants of movie dolls, not just playline, which seems so insidious bc it’s like why couldn’t you just make the character black in the first place? you’ll take their money but you don’t really want to represent those girls do you!
It all comes down to sales, you morons! Mattel is in the business of selling dolls, not catering to your SJW virtue signaling. They won’t do special POC dolls if they don’t think that their investment return will make it worth it. Are you that fucking stupid? Seriously.
up to this point, i’m super confused about which tumblr people i should take seriously and which i shouldn’t. i understand that as a human being, i can’t expect or pretend that i know everyone’s perspectives. i don’t feel any genuine hate for these people, i just find them to be a mild annoyance, bothering me with their problems when i don’t care.
i feel like i’m referencing the quote, unquote, “special snowflake” type people, and my heavy confusion as to which blogs are trolls and which ones seriously think that they have the soul of a mythical creature.
This is why we separate people to know if they are actually family at the border. Ignorance and open borders only allow for this to happen more. Human Trafficking at the border needs to stop and ending illegal border crossings is the only way to do it.
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People who race bait and use racism for attention are the reason for situations like like this. People will continue to lie if they they think they can get victim points and attention.
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- besides the fact that it’s in japan and they whitewashed the film
- it romanticizes death, suicide, and the forest
- it is a real forest in japan, aokigahara, where people go to commit suicide
- suicide in japan is a national crisis. the usa ranks 50th in yearly suicides while japan ranks 17th—an estimated 70 suicides per day.
- japan’s rigorous culture of conformity heavily stigmatizes those with mental health issues. many japanese people have grown content with suicide and see it as a reasonable solution. in reality, suicide is an epidemic and is the second leading cause of death in the country.
- suicides in the forest are still happening today so it is extremelydisrespectful. this isn’t something that happened 400 years ago. it’s been happening for the last 30 years—over 100 bodies are found in aokigahara every year.
- ableist erasure of poc with mental health issues—does not mention depression and whitewashes japanese people with depression, making yet another example where poc with mental illnesses are completely invisible.
- as someone else said, the model minority myth doesn’t just assume that we (asians) are universally intelligent or rich, it also assumes that we’re able-bodied and don’t suffer from mental illness. NO ONE talks about mental health among asians. NO ONE talks about disabled asians. why? because everyone believes that we’re rich and smart enough to access healthcare. we aren’t.
- instead of reaching out and confronting a problem that exists and is on-going, natalie dormer and her hollywood ilk turned it into a horror movie and whitewashed its cast, thus dehumanizing not only asians around the globe affected by mental health, but those who have already committed suicide.
- please just don’t watch this fucking film
For fucks sake, it really is only a shitty little horror movie, can we all PLEASE stop trying to find offensive/racist/sexist/stupid bullshit in totally unoffensive and everyday normal things???
NOT EVERYTHING IS OFFENSIVE.
NOR IS EVERYTHING CREATED BY RACIST/SEXIST/WHATEVER PEOPLE WITH PURPOSELY RACIST/SEXIST/WHATEVER INTENTIONS OR IDEAS.
