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⌈ Secret Post #2576 ⌋

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I'm sorry they didn't hire real ones for you.

LOL

we need hobbit representation! No more elfwashing!

LOLOLOL!!!

This is how people know you're white and don't have to deal with not seeing someone who looks like YOU in mediums that you love.

So sorry that all of these annoying POC are causing you to passive aggressively lash out.

Da

Oh p-lease. I'm transgender. How much representation you think I get in the media? And I lol'ed at that comment. I can't speak for anyone other than myself and say I'm glad I've got a sense of humour about this.

I said I still love the films. They're just about humans and not hobbits. I suppose they could have hired actual little people like Warwick Davis, but I know that with a budget that size they needed names.

Now I just had this random thought that SJWs might have pissed on the films for not hiring actual dwarfs (people with the medical condition, I mean) or whatever.

...were there even SJWs back in 2001?

I don't think so. At least, not on a widespread scale. I think it was 2007 or 2008 before the first big racewank blowup on metafandom.

DA

Race!Fail!Wank was 2009 IIRC.

...is there one particular post that started all that? I always assumed it was gradual

(I got involved in fandom around early 2010)

I remember reading about Racefail 2009 on a wiki about fandom history, but I don't think I have it bookmarked. But iirc it did start with one post, and then people in their circle started responding and making their own posts and it snowballed.

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I'll come across comments every now and then from members in older comms who say that SJWs weren't around before 2009 or so.

Nope. That's before the internet generation hit uni and their first sociology class.

LOL it's only funny cause it's true

lol yep

I know there were still the, if you will, overly politically correct angry "feminist" types (scare quotes only because I too am a feminist) but the women's studies majors didn't know how to use the internet yet

A lot of my friends were pretty anti-computer. I found it pretty isolating on the web not being a sexist ignorant jerk for a long time. "Let's not bring politics into this discussion!" etc

Yeah tho, "politically correct" is just another relatively conservative and weaselly way of saying "too progressive for me"? But with the side serve of "insincere point scoring" which is far from true for everyone who's more radical than thou. Works for some, but the term PC is so dismissive of all radicalism, I fucking hate it.

There was ginmar.

I lol'd. For real, I'm not just saying that.

lmao, good one.

(Though being completely serious I never had this issue with the films. Maybe I'm just easily fooled, maybe I just get into the head-space of 'MIDDLE EARTH, MOTHERFUCKER!' and everything else fades away, but I feel like LOTR did an excellent job with the visuals and special effects and scale. Sorry it didn't work for you.)

OT, but I love your icon. Frodo just looks like he's about to start writing bad poetry.

Excuse you, Frodo would write the VERY FINEST poetry; your words are LIES. (No, no, it looks exactly like that. Poor Frodo. He can't help being so moody.)

His poetry would be angsty and focus on what he had for second breakfast today. And of course he's moody. Nobody understaaaaaaaaaaands him. He's got to carry this stupid ring to Mordor and then throw it. It's not like Gandalf could ask the eagles to drop them off at the foot of the volcano or anything.