different faces different places
Laurie. 20. College student, intersectional feminist, and textbook Pisces currently in NJ. I like Disney, food, writing, singing, funny stuff, attractive people, and intelligence. I hate sexism, racism, and anything anti-LGBTQ. If we love and hate the same things, we would probably make great, great friends, so don't hesitate to leave any questions or comments in my askbox - anon is always on!
The classic doll color test performed with a white child, complete with the parent’s
excusesreactionsThe little girl even says she picked the white figures as the good child because it “looks like me” and the dark girl as bad because “she’s dark”. When Soledad O’Brien asks the girl’s mother about it, we’re met with quite a few colorblind based excuses and “well, we just don’t talk about race”.
“We don’t talk about race!!”
And your kid is saying racist shit regardless.
That should fucking tell you something, lady.
But of course, it won’t. I bet you cash money she won’t change a thing, continuing to use that color blind bullshit.
This is why the whole idea of not discussing race with white children is bullshit. No, it won’t “taint” them. When you don’t talk about it, they still form opinions — racist ones — because they don’t know any better, so to speak. Then one day they grow up into adults that are, guess what, still racist. As Black folks, we pretty much all had “the talk” as kids/young people; our existence in this society dictates that we do, because racism is a part of our lives at an incredibly young age. Colorblind ideology has been proven to be toxic as blatant racism. And little white kids can be just as racist as their parents.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOP..!!
we dont talk about race with kids but a small child ran up to my professor’s wife and said she had a terrorist baby.
we dont talk about race with kids but white children were encouraged to go to lynchings to see white supremacy. because (trigger warning: graphic details) jesse washington, whose charred body is floating around on tumblr posts, had his teeth yanked out by white children so they could sell them as lynching souvenirs.
we dont talk about race with kids but kids clearly PICK UP ON RACE. many POC parents dont explicitly discuss race but clearly, white ppl, kids pick up on it!!
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okay I love these shoes but I have no damn clue how I’m going to be able to wear these all day Saturday?!?!?!?!!
Laurie + non-wedge heels = NOT A GOOD DAMN COMBO
and oh god I’m probs going to be drinking a bit THIS WON’T END WELL
I’ve never really wanted a Disney wedding because when I hear “Disney wedding” I think of princess poofy dresses in front of the castle and riding in a pumpkin carriage and stuff
but jfc if I end up living in California and end up getting married I’d love to at least have my reception at the Grand Californian
Fangirl Challenge
4/15 Movies: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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i s2g i thought that was supposed to be a terry richardson costume and i was SO disturbed
So I’m packing for California/Hawaii and I decided to try on the bathing suit I bought last year but never actually got to wear to the beach over the summer because of moving/classes. And then I decided to take selfies. With a duckface.
I put my entire iTunes library on shuffle but for some reason it’s only played songs from Electra Heart (which I just recently added to my iTunes)
I am perplexed yet pleased
Representation matters.
my heart just melted….
Stop with the representation thing! I’ve kept my mouth shit but its getting annoying. Disney doesn’t need to a lesbian princess or a princess with cancer just because of representation because if that’s the reason why they made here they’d be acknowledging the fact that there’s something wrong with them in the first place. Which there isn’t. This girl isn’t even in a tiana dress, she’s wearing a little mermaid dress. I’m half black and I can’t ever remember wishing there was a black princess, or One with curly hair. I was even mulan for Halloween once! Yeah it’d be great to maybe see a princess like that but I think that all Disney should have to focus on is making wonderful movies for the whole family and we should be happy about that.
^ Amen.
Oh my god seriously. Good for you just because you were very confident and all and didnt feel the need to have your heritage/sexual orientation represented does not mean those who seek representation are whiny or that what they want is invalid. God forbid disney ever try to be equal in who it shows and stop whitewashing. Yes why would the millions of people worldwide who see theses movies want to see people who look like they do and who are accurately showing their culture. Why would the 4 billion people in asia want more than one asian woman in disney? that is so stupid. Why would a bisexual teenage girl like me ever want to see a princess not in a heterosexual relationship? Why would we want to feel normal and included in Disney and the media? I mean you as a “half black girl” find us wanting to be seen and represented annoying so we should definitely just shut up.
(Source: omgblackgirls, via disneydiversity)
But ask yourself: Why is there that knee-jerk rejection of any effort to “overthink” pop culture? Why would you ever be afraid that looking too hard at something will ruin it? If the government built a huge, mysterious device in the middle of your town and immediately surrounded it with a fence that said, “NOTHING TO SEE HERE!” I’m pretty damned sure you wouldn’t rest until you knew what the hell that was — the fact that they don’t want you to know means it can’t be good.
Well, when any idea in your brain defends itself with “Just relax! Don’t look too close!” you should immediately be just as suspicious. It usually means something ugly is hiding there.
"This quote is in an article about superhero movies, but it applies to so many things.
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Anxiety isn’t a fashion statement it’s a miserable disorder with actual real uncontrollable symptoms that eat you alive and distance you from the people you love so stop making it “trendy”
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would like to point out that this image has the intentions of showcasing the newest additions to the princess line up, so all the older princesses of course aren’t the center of attention.
of course, the placement of certain princesses could be better, but also consider this was probably purely unintentional. or in better words, not a conscious thing.
oh believe me, it is completely possible for racism to be subconscious.
I think it’s fairly obvious that the racial problems would be ammeliorated if they HAD arranged by sequence. That means Mulan would be in front of Snow White- Rapunzel and Jasmine would be in front of Sleeping Beauty AND Ariel- and Tiana would make her way to the front, past Cinderella and Belle.
I mean honestly it’s sort of laughable to look at this and decide that it’s arranged to display newer in the front, and older in the back. It’s actually only relevant to the frontmost two characters and no one else. So might want to come up with a better reason to justify racialized placement if you are really dead set against calling it out, since it’s harmful whether or not it’s “intentional.”
Especially since that’s really a consciousness in and of itself. People who care about this stuff consult others and listen to what they say. Very easily, anyone with an iota of understanding of what usual critiques against the princesses are, would have noticed that.
unintentional my ass. Shouldn’t all of the new ones be front and center, and old guard back right and back left? Don’t look that way..I see mighty white all front and center.
Yep, & if we’re going by newest that would mean Tiana standing next to Merida or Rapunzel. Instead she’s all the way in the back.
I fixed it!
There. That’s what it would look like if this was actually a case of chronological placement.
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my dad just asked me if I know who David Karp is because he read about the Yahoo-Tumblr deal in the paper
he then said “wow the world’s really TUMBLING out of control”
literally NO like literally STOP
