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⌈ Secret Post #2933 ⌋

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[Giada De Laurentiis/John Mayer]

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When I was a child, I loved Teen Wolf more than anything. (The movie, not the TV show. Well, I also loved the animated series that existed briefly in the 80s, but that's not the same thing.) A while back, I read something that pointed out that given how his lycanthropy is coded in the film and how it functions, the movie is basically about Michael J. Fox being able to turn into a black guy.

It's true. The surprisingly specific racial coding is unmistakable once you see it. So while it's still not as cringe-inducing as, say, the jazz club in Weird Science, my childhood favorite film is now tainted with creepiness.

:C I used to love that movie growing up. Thanks, anon :[

I don't remember the movie that well so I might be wrong here, but isn't it possible that's as much a question of how our culture codes black traits as the movie coding MJF as being black?

When he turns into a werewolf, he's suddenly good at basketball and breakdancing. You tell me.

Okay, the breakdancing is hard to work around.

The basketball I was thinking could be a weird coincidental thing. & I guess what I was thinking was that, essentially, it could be a result of the fact that the way that we stereotype people of African descent usually tends to fall into the narrative of 'more primitive, therefore more physically able, more spiritually and socially in tune with nature, more charismatic, but less intelligent', right? In other words, the stereotypical narrative tends to want to reduce the humanity of Africans and turn them into something more 'primitive'. So it wouldn't seem impossible that a movie about a white dude becoming a beast could accidentally fall into the same logic.

Even with the breakdancing, it's probably as much about Fox turning 'cool' and all the things that we think of as cool happen to be coded as black, which is also connected to the above logic I think. But that's much less coincidental.

Wtf.

Wolves are just really good at breakdancing. Everyone knows that, jeez.

I hadn't heard this before, but I don't see this as a problem, inasmuch it seems like a "white" kid discovering he is part "black." Which is normal.

Anyway, interpreting it like being a big hairy jock is exclusively "black" sounds really racist in that sort of racial-essentialist way that some "social justice" types and ostensible progressives like.

Do you have a link? Because I'd love to take apart that critic's argument.

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