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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-07-17 06:57 pm

[ SECRET POST #2023 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2023 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 066 secrets from Secret Submission Post #289.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2012-07-18 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Firstly, yes, olive-skinned white people exist. Absolutely. Katniss and Gale could very well be white. But they could also not be white. The issue here is that POC actresses couldn't even audition for Katniss's role, and the casting is overall very white.

Both this discussion and the one about the suggestion that the main character in Brave is a lesbian because she has tomboyish tendencies and isn't interested in marriage (being a teenager) are suddenly all about things like, "But what about olive-skinned white people!" and "What about me, I'm a tomboy and I'm straight!" when the flipside is that POC actors don't even get a chance to compete with white actors for the roles whose descriptions they could well fit, and that lesbians are still defined as girls who aren't like 'regular' girls and who are into 'boy' things (and whose sexuality thus is just a product of being 'like a man'). It just seems something's kind of... off.