[ SECRET POST #722 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #722 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 16 pages, 382 secrets from Secret Submission Post #103.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 4 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[tl--dr.livejournal.com]

Because there are no wildly popular child actors of East Asian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Song) or Native American (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Hudgens) descent. None at all.

Couldn't be that the "popularity" the movie is cashing in on is the popularity of the fantasy of a world turned white? Which is...uh...sort of kind of a racist fantasy???

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. Because all the teenybopper idols are white. How many magazines and tv shows and stuff have non white idols as the leads, the fantasy boyfriend or girlfriend? The making it about the money doesn't matter since it is only white actors that are seen as capable as bringing in the money.

[tl--dr.livejournal.com]

See, although I think there are some direct institutionalized trends that make Ashley Tisdale a bigger star than Brenda Song or Vanessa Hudgens, that makes Hilary Duff an enormous star while Raven Simone still has no major career outside of the Disney Channel, I disagree with the assertion that "all" the teenybopper idols are white because it lends credence to the idea that the casting directors chose noname whitebread actress x for a role Vanessa Hudgens would have physically fit far more suitably not because they were desperate to whitewash the Avatar world for whatever subconscious reason, but because CONSCIOUSLY they were just trying to draw in the teen crowd by casting stars that will make them a lot of money. When...there ARE stars who would make them a lot MORE money than the random actors they cast, who aren't white, so there seemed to be something a little more conscious, a little more sinister going on that they'd literally choose to make every casting choice a whitewashed one. But you're right that it's still totally beside the point: whether they cast bigname white child actors to make themselves money, or whitened up the Avatarverse to make themselves money, it doesn't matter, because it's still exploiting racism for cash, and plays into the exact same offensive, deeply rooted power imbalances. And claiming the two issues are at all separate - that trying to make money by whitening up a universe is somehow less racist than whitening it up for any other reason - is not an argument that holds water, either way.

SO BASICALLY: IAWTC, I LIKE TO TL;DR

[(Anonymous)]

*clicks*

Wow, Vanessa Hudgens looks like she would have been a perfect Katara.