lol. listen. 1) yes, i did and ^this shit is condescending as fuck. and 2) if you wanna hop over into the MENA pol thread and keep this going we can, but i guarantee you the discussion will devolve into a discussion about western imperialism and you are on the wrong side of it rn.
1) Then why did your entire post attack someone that shared an article and not the article or author?, 2) I don't have a "side", I posted a popular article arguing some issues with 'Aladdin' as a story/and movie, argued by multiple non-westerners. If you wanna talk about what the article is about, by all means I'll read, that's the point of this thread. But posts attacking the person that shared it or expressly ignoring the contents to attack the author or source are not that.
Probably because I already talked about the article and author. It matters because you're defending sharing a tweet by a MENA equivalent of someone like Spencer or Duke. Own up to that and apologize. It's a really bad look. This is why Westerners need to read up on MENA history, diversity, and culture, and the past thirty years of Western foreign policy. Because most of you haven't, you're following people who are sympathizing with imperialism and thus often islamism, and you have no idea because you don't understand the language. If you cared, you wouldn't ignore that Massoud is not Arab, and that it matters that he's a Copt. Also I come from a non Western family so like. Who are these "respected people", I honestly want to know because it matters a lot. Seriously. The people who are "respected" in the West usually are so because of how ignorant most people left of center are about MENA. And people wonder why the right wing are winning. A lot of the popular and "respected" people are usually ignorant and/or racist. I say this because the article predicates on a false assumption about the actor's race and is written by someone who is ignorant and has said very harmful things. I explained in my previous post that wasn't addressed. You have zero idea how offensive this is because you're very ignorant. This is why people can't brush me off for being "annoying/hostile" about these discussions. You're not educated on them and you're not willing to admit it. It shows in the fact you can't address most of the things that are said about it.
'Girls Trip' Director on Black Girl Magic, Tiffany Haddish and Future 'Best Man' Movies glad Girls Trip is so successful, almost like people keep clamoring for movies with diversity and people other than white men go to the movies or something
Tara Reid Gets Paid a Quarter of What Her Sharknado Costar Ian Ziering Earns on Each Installment: Report
How? I've never heard of that dude? Who is that dude? Tara Reid at least used to be very famously. Makes NO sense
When that new American Pie came out, she was paid less than every other actor from the original movie. She is in a position where she has to take what they give.
Tara Reid def has the name recognition for me and imo should be paid higher than him (I don't even think I know what else the other guy has been in?) but unfort for her she has the hasbeen label and I'm sure they take advantage of the fact that she doesn't really have any power to demand more. She has to take what she can get. But it's silly cause he's just as replaceable.
white folks caping for HBO/Benioff+Weiss' "Confederate" and equating any criticism of it to """censorship""" is just fucking ridiculous this bullshit right here annoys me so much because you know this exact argument is coming from self-professed "liberals"
Ian Ziering? Steve Sanders. Beverly Hills, 90210. But also I'm probably outside the target market for these things now. Edit: that's not me saying he should be paid more, just that there is name recognition
Huh. I know a lot of the Beverly hills actors by name but this dudes name has never made it into my pop culture sphere! I did recognize him when I googled it tho
Random thought: I like how fanboys are like "lol silly snowflake" whenever there's whitewashing, but whenever we suggest that Doctor Strange and Iron Fist should be Asian they're like "But the comics!!!" See also: "But The Doctor has always been a man!" "But Peter Parker has always been white!"
What It’s Like to Make Your First Movie With an All-Female Crew There is a sequence near the end of Band Aid, the Sundance standout that hits theaters Friday, which could function as a sort of manifesto for the film’s writer-director-producer-star Zoe Lister-Jones. The story of a couple who can’t stop fighting and so, as a sort of Hail Mary, decide to turn their fights into songs, Band Aid eventually finds Lister-Jones’s character, Anna — spoiler alert! — at an impasse. In response to her dilemma, Anna puts on a nice dress, does her hair and makeup, and then proceeds to beat the bejeezus out of a room filled with mattresses and pillows. It’s funny, unexpected, and surprisingly poignant, and within it, you can find a concise kernel of what makes Lister-Jones one of our most promising young directors. Lister-Jones made Band Aid with an all-female crew on an all-female set — all-female enough that her husband, fellow director and frequent collaborator Daryl Wein, had to settle for driving by and craning his neck to catch a glimpse; all-female enough that the financiers, a bunch of dudes, were respectfully told from the start they would be barred from visiting (they were cool with it); and all-female enough that Lister-Jones’s co-star Adam Pally was, for a week, the only man in sight. Even if Band Aid had been made by sexless Swiss Roombas, it would still be a remarkable achievement, but the nature of its creation makes it a radical act, a necessary inversion of a lopsided industry.(The movie ended up being good too.)