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honorh ([info]honorh) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2012-03-08 21:50:00


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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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[info]honorh
2012-03-11 03:51 am UTC (link)
Of course. Because a male stylist couldn't possibly be straight, y'know.

*eyeroll*

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[info]sequinedlizard
2012-03-12 04:27 am UTC (link)
That's why I'm torn. Because it would be awesome to have a decent black gay man in film/literature, but I'm leery of him being labeled gay simply because of his kick ass fashion sense.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2012-04-19 08:07 pm UTC (link)
OTOH, I hate the erasure and subsequent devaluing of real people who actually do fall into gay stereotypes that happens when people get up in arms about how character X who reads as gay to a lot of people could totally be straight, you guys! I get fighting stereotypes, but honestly the way to do that isn't to say that characters who read as gay could be straight, but to introduce characters of all sexualities and personalities. So yeah, the straight stylist, but also the gay stylist and the gay sports star and so forth.

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