NEWS FLASH: In the future, we may not all be white!
The cast for the movie of The Hunger Games has been known for a while, but a certain segment of the fandom is having a hard time coming to terms with something about it: Namely, that Rue and Thresh, both described in the book as dark-skinned, will be played by African-American actors. Worse, so will Cinna, whose ethnicity isn't mentioned, and therefore must be white.

Hunger Games Tweets has been keeping its eye on some of the worse elements. Warning: Some extremely vile, racist language. Did you know that sweet, innocent girls must always be pale and fair-haired? And gay men can't be black? I'm telling you, it's an education.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go vomit.

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rosehiptea
2012-03-10 09:48 pm UTC (link)

No problem, I get where F!S is kind of a minefield, having just gotten into a stupid argument with an anon there myself which I'm still trying to get myself to ignore.

And I've seen plenty of legitimate complaints about what they did as far as Watson's back story, so I don't think that's racist at all... if anything the posts I've seen about that are saying that Lucy Liu deserves to play a better character, so.

I don't think American TV was ever even contemplating doing Sherlock and Watson as a gay couple. So I guess that's part of why I don't relate as much to that objection to the casting -- I mean I really don't think anyone even thought "We'll make her a woman or this will be too gay!" My bias I guess?

Yet, yeah, they do want to escape having gay couples in general and that is pretty sad. Just it doesn't bother me particularly that they don't do it in this particular show, but that doesn't mean every single person who wants to see that is a racist.

/rambling, sorry.

P.S. I'd be more likely to watch it if they made Sherlock and Watson women. But what do I know.

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	sepiamagpie 2012-03-10 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	Didn't you have a second comment here? You're not supposed to delete comments. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2012-03-11 12:46 am UTC (link)
	It was a duplicate of the same comment. I thought I was allowed to delete it under those circumstances. I apologize if I wasn't. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2012-03-11 12:59 am UTC (link)
	Totally allowed. I just wasn't sure since I didn't see the original (Reply to this)(Parent)

full_metal_ox
2012-03-11 02:29 am UTC (link)

And I've seen plenty of legitimate complaints about what they did as far as Watson's back story, so I don't think that's racist at all... if anything the posts I've seen about that are saying that Lucy Liu deserves to play a better character, so.

Last I checked, wasn't this the twenty-first century--where it's entirely possible for an Asian-American woman to be a physician, combat veteran, and Wounded Warrior? Recent events have even obligingly provided another Afghan War.

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	rosehiptea 2012-03-11 04:21 am UTC (link)
	Excellent point, yeah. I don't get why they dropped the ball on that so badly. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	adevyish 2012-03-12 01:52 am UTC (link)
	This. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	napalmnacey 2012-03-12 05:16 pm UTC (link)
	I'm disappointed. I wanted brilliant doctor PTSD-riddled hardened soldier Lucy Liu Watson, damn it! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	luxshine 2012-03-11 03:39 am UTC (link)
	My problem is that I'm a pessimist. I do believe that someone said "We'll make her a woman or this will be too gay!" and that also colors my view I guess. And yes, Sherlock AND Watson women would be amazingly cool. If I didn't know that they already cast Sherlock, I wouldn't be so mad about all this, (Reply to this)(Parent)

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