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ohokaybueno:

switchette

I’m mad she tagged me in this shit, but she so fuckin right my gawd.

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ohokaybueno:

When you forget to take your birth control two days in a row and on the third day you know there’s no turning back so now you’re on your period at an inconvenient time and damnit this sucks why didn’t I just take the pills when the alarm went off

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henrythehangman:

breathplaypls:

Fuck water wheels are hot.

I Love this

This reminds me of a scene in A Long Kiss Goodnight, and the fact that it turns me on really fucks with my childhood memories.

*Mr.Burns-style* Exxxcellent.

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racismschool:

No, people aren’t “More sensitive” now. People aren’t too “Politically Correct” now. Nor are people “Just looking for a reason to be offended” now.

We, as a people, know better now. Therefore we, as a people, are trying to do better now.

“Open Casting” does not exist

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the-bitch-goddess-success:

tsupertsundere:

thebellebandit:

skeptictanks:

In my screenwriting class this week, my instructor explained that if you do not signify a race or ethnicity, your character will be assumed to be white. There will be no clarification, no one will ask you to explain, the director and casting agent will create a whites-only casting call for auditions.

This obviously isn’t news. We know that the default for Hollywood is white even though mathematically, according to the demographics of California and the entire world, this is laughably illogical. 

I asked him how you signify that you want open casting in your script for any race or ethnicity because you want the best actor for the character.

He didn’t understand and started talking about words like “eurasian” in the descriptive lines following your character’s introduction.

I explained that I wasn’t asking about how to denote racial ambiguity (which is another favorite of Hollywood), rather an actual open casting call that wasn’t limited to white and white passing people.

He said he had never come across this.

Never, in his entire decade+ career, had he ever come across an open casting call. 

So when people say shit like, “oh well maybe they just got the best actor for the role!”, they deserve to have their faces slammed into the nearest available surface.

themoonwilldriveyoumad

I got pushback in my screenwriting classes when I specifically noted each major and supporting character’s race – ‘why are you mentioning this? is it really important?’ – and the above is what I told them. 

This is from three different screenwriting professors – all white men.

“Colorblind” screenwriting really just translates into whites-only stories – unless your characters have a “reason” to be a different race (another thing I was told).

I’m a product of the same program. So, I’ve had to code my characters as their races/ethnicities to the point where casting anyone not of that background would just seem silly. it’s ridiculous what you have to go through just to see POC represented on the page and subsequently the screen in a humanized, fully realized manner. and the people educating us don’t always know why it’s important, which is incredibly frustrating.

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subtlesapphistries:

Hetfems are so fucking funny. They’re always saying that when they have a “disagreement” with another feminist they stick around and talk it out in the name of sisterhood, but that’s because they don’t suffer from the power imbalance. When lesbians argue with straight women about lesbophobia, it’s fucking painful for us. Educating het women about this shit takes emotional and intellectual labour, while straights can retreat in their ignorance and have the easy role in the conversation. When you’re privileged on one or several axes (it also happens in conversations about race, disability or any kind of oppression) it’s easy to “discuss” your differences of opinion because to you it’s just that. But the oppressed person has to defend herself against ideas that attack her very existence. And it’s exhausting. So yes, I’m going to block you if you’re a homophobe and I don’t care what you think.