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Yes, silly me for not being 100% satisfied with the “baby step” of having a white female lead when that baby step has been happening for decades. Seems like that precious little baby should be all grown up by now, no?
So. Why don’t you think about why you see a white female lead as the only possible “first step” rather than telling me I’m being ungrateful for making ONE post that’s critical of the Rogue One casting (with an acknowledgement that there may be a story-driven reason for it, no less).
What kind of trickle down equality garbage is this?
This “we have to start with white women first” bullshit is tired, laden with white supremacy, privileged, and empirically denied.
No. We don’t “all” benefit from “female representation.” White women benefit from white female representation. And too often these White Feminists ™ reveal that they’re only in it for themselves because they constantly attempt to silence WoC when we ask for more while simultaneously demanding that WoC support projects that pretend WoC don’t exist to “prove” we’re “good feminists.”
Meanwhile, White Feminists ™ are too busy slobbering over the 1897984th iteration of a white brunette protagonist to even care about us, and when WoC are cast White Feminist ™ silence is deafening until the female character of color doesn’t fit their narrow definition of feminism and then out come all the think pieces and posts about how awful the character is and how anti-feminist because if it’s not good for white women then it’s not good for all women.
You don’t actually care about WoC being represented, you want us to shut up so you can enjoy another white lady protagonist without having to confront your white privilege.
The audacity of telling WoC to “appreciate what we have” when WoC DON’T HAVE ANYTHING is peak White Feminism ™.
They been saying “wait your turn sweaty” since the 1700s.
