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honey-bri-books · 9 months

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Waiting for this movie has been so much fun. I am loving July in the year of 2023 💙

#book to movie adaptation #rwrb #red white and royal blue #red white and royal blue movie #nicholas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez #amazon prime original #prime video #acd #hrh prince henry #first prince #henry fox mountchristen windsor #alexander claremont diaz

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yourmomxx · 2 years

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SPOILERS for THE BOYS SEASON 3 part1 without context:

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neverwritewhatyouknow · 1 year

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When Hollywood erases Jews, also known as modern day “acceptable” antisemitism

Let’s start with some definitions.

Jews - Jewish people, either through religion and/or ethnicity. The reason for the “or” is because many Jews don’t practice Judaism, but they are still 100% as Jewish. And depending on who you ask (2 Jews 3 opinions), when a person converts in they join the tribe and become (for all intents and purposes) ethnically Jewish as well (their kids are ethnically Jewish). All that to say— Being Jewish does not automatically mean a purely religious affiliation.

Antisemitism - Jew hate. There is no hyphen in the word. It does not mean hate against other semantic people, because there are only semantic languages, not groups. This term was coined by the Nazis to make hating Jews sound fancy. If a Jew tells you something is antisemitic, believe them.

“Acceptable” - In this context, this means socially and culturally acceptable. Something that the wider world just goes with and accepts as normalized and just how things are. It doesn’t mean it is right or okay, it purely just means that it is what is accepted by mass amounts of people.

Now, let’s discuss what we know about Jewish actors on TV or in movies.

From the earliest eras of Hollywood, Jews were around. They were founding companies, writing songs, writing scripts, and if they could— acting.

Jewish actors of the time (and into present day) would more often than not have to change their names in order to not reveal their Jewishness. Let me repeat that— Jews were running some studios, but yet Jewish actors still had to pretend to not be Jewish in order to appeal to the audiences. So they did. And they do.

Long before Hollywood’s time, and stretching as far back as ancient theatre and even Shakespearean theatre, Jewish characters were played by someone “dressed Jewish.” Meaning large hooked nose pieces, sleazy clothing, basically the visual representation of antisemitic tropes. This was the Jewish representation happening for centuries. Pure hate live on stage. This happened with minstrel shows for Black characters and Asian characters too. Basically if you weren’t white, you were a stereotype.

This is still true today.

Look at any show/film that has Jewish characters in them. Here’s just a few.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

The Goldbergs

Hollywood

Moon Knight

The Simpsons

New Girl

Transparent

Shiva Baby

These shows all contain stereotypes against Jews, use Jews are the punchline for jokes, only have Jewish characters for jokes, or just don’t include Jewish actors to even play those Jewish roles.

There’s a few things about this:

The Hollywood industry believes Jews only exist when they want them too. Such as for villain, victim, or vaudeville reasons. Example: The evil character is Jewish (that new teen movie I can’t remember the name of where the boy wears a Star of David and is the villain), the victim (every WW2 movie ever), the vaudeville clown (every time there’s a joke about the noses, the banks, the bagels, etc). Jews are so very rarely ever real people.

Not having Jewish actors playing Jewish roles is Jew-face, a term coined by Sarah Silverman. It started out meaning when non-Jewish actors put on a Jewish appearance to play Jewish, but now it just encompasses any non-Jew playing a Jew. Much like how blackface and yellowface and redface are.

Yes. Not casting Jews is a problem. Remember the first definition? It’s an ethnic group. You literally cannot play an ethnicity you are not a part of. It’s literally impossible. An actor cannot change their DNA (see the mention about converts and how they join the tribe therefore are included in any talk of Jewish ethnicity).

I repeat. An actor cannot play an ethnicity they are not. It is impossible. Any actor playing Jewish while not being Jewish themselves is literally erasing a minority ethnicity from the screen. That’s just a fact. Same way it would be if they cast a white actor to play hispanic or asian.

What actors who are cast in roles that are of a differing ethnicity to them do, is they (at the fault of the production) put on stereotypes to represent that ethnicity, because they want to show that this character is a certain way, but can’t do so because the actor is not. And we’re back at the ancient theatre history with actors in prosthetic noses begging for their pound of flesh.

And why is this acceptable to audiences?

Jews are a minority. Like .2% global, minority. There are about 24x as many people following Kim K on Instagram than there are Jews in the world. More people follow antisemites than there are Jews being recorded on census.

Since there are so few Jews in the world at all, people don’t realize that Jewish representation is lacking. Because it’s always lacking. You don’t see what’s not there, and then when there’s non-Jews playing Jews on TV or in movies, it just seems normal.

Most non-Jews (Christians) only view Jews as religion based followers, since that is what they know of their own religions. They are either religious or they have no religious affliction and therefore their ethnicity is wherever they or their parents are from. Their culture is (in the West) Christian-centric even if removed from religion. While Jews, even if not religious, are still Jewish.

So not having real Jews on screen erases an entire ethnic and religious group. But people are okay with it, because they don’t realize what is happening.

There are few explicitly Jewish characters at all, and yet of those roles, less than a quarter of them are played by actual Jewish actors. Of the shows listed above, less than a quarter are Jewish. In the larger Jewish cast shows there are an average of 2 Jewish actors per 10 Jewish characters. Otherwise there are no Jews portraying themselves.

Imagine if this were any other ethnicity. Can you imagine the outcry? Hollywood did. That’s why ScarJo is no longer playing Asian roles, and why they’ve stopped tanning white actors for West Side Story. Yet not even a month ago they announced that Daisy Edgar-Jones (not-Jewish) would be playing Carole King (very Jewish) in her biopic. Where is the outcry from the non-Jews?

I often think about this moment from Hollywood. Patti LuPone portraying Avis (a Jewish Hollywood icon who is fictional but based on real people). Patti, Italian like many famous Jew-face actors are, says this:

Ironic, huh? “Nobody thought a Jewish girl could be a movie star. Nobody thought they were pretty” said by a non-Jewish actress, playing a Jewish role. Seems some people still don’t think Jewish girls could be movie stars.

So again I ask, why is Jew-erasure in the form of not casting Jews as Jews acceptable in society? Why is this form of antisemitism okay?

Because it’s all we’ve known. Because people don’t consider Jews a minority ethnicity the same way they do other groups. Because there are too few Jews to complain about it. Because contrary to belief, Jews don’t run Hollywood. Because nobody thinks Jewish girls are pretty. Because Jews can only serve a Jewish plot, and if a character doesn’t have to be Jewish, it’s erased.

Canon and non-fictional Jews can’t just be erased when you want them to be if it doesn’t fit with your ideas.

Jew-erasure is Jew-hate is antisemitism.

Erasing Jewishness from the screen is erasure. Is hatred. Is antisemitism.

Many just are so used to it, that it doesn’t raise any hairs. But reminder, blackface was common into the 50s and is a disgusting practice. Them taping the corner of actor’s eyes to play Asian, or tanning them to play indigenous, used to be common too. But not anymore. Things change, rightfully so. So why can’t it change for Jews too?

As always, ask questions if you have any. I’m planning on doing another post about this with some additional thoughts at a later date, but my computer is dead so figured I’d get some out now.

Here’s a list of shows with good Jewish rep:

Schitts Creek (Kids are both half-Jewish, Johnny is Sephardic). Made and stars Jewish actors (Eugene and Dan and Sarah, since they explicitly have the characters as both Jewish and Christian I’m giving them a break with Annie). They are normal people doing normal Schitts Creek thangs.

House. Stars Lisa Edelstein as Jewish Lisa Cuddy. There’s only episode that really digs into her being Jewish when it talks about her mom converting to Judaism, but it’s not handled badly. Lisa is just a regular person, her Jewishness is never outwardly a focus, but you know it’s there.

9-1-1 Lone Star. Ronen Rubinstein and Lisa Edelstein. Ronen as TK, Lisa as his mom. In season 1, TK wasn’t explicitly any religion/known ethnicity. But when Lisa was introduced, she came in as a Jewish character and so TK became one too. It was never heavy handed and only really came up a handful of times. All pretty tasteful. Both Ronen and Lisa are Jewish.

Okay nobody is reading this any longer so that’s it for now. Bye!

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risingmcrandomstuff · 6 months

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So…..THIS Has been happening…..

😳😳😳😳

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findstories · 2 years

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So you’re telling me that The Wilds showrunners added a HOT SPRINGS to this season and not once had Shoni in there???? The homophobia is through the roof.

#the wilds #amazon prime original #shoni #the wilds spoilers #the wilds s2 #shelby goodkind #shelby x toni #toni shalifoe #like that’s literally a fan fic waiting to happen

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greeebt · 2 years

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Am I the only one that just don’t give a shit about what happened to the boys?

Please tell me I am not the only one!

#the wilds #amazon prime original #shoni #the wilds s2 #leatin #shelby goodkind #toni shalifoe #shelby x toni

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gryffindorconsultingtimelord · 10 months

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Prime Day isn’t the only exciting thing coming from Amazon this July!👀

#amazon #amazon prime #good omens #david tennant #micheal sheen #good omens two #new season #amazon prime original #original series #nerd #talknerdytome #nerdy #geek #books #comics #neil gaiman #fandoms and fantasies #podcast

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whoviancumberbunny · 11 months

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Amazon Prime Video has Legend of Vox Machina profile pics

NOW I HAVE SCANLAN SHORTHALT AS MY PROFILE PIC

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stevebuscemieyes · 1 year

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SWARM (2023)

Created By Donald Glover & Janine Nabers

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thatbadassbree · 2 years

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I watched the first three episodes of The Boys tonight and Homelander is a sick mfer, I will say that. Very excited for the rest of season.

#the boys tv #the boys #the boys s3 #amazon #amazon prime original #billy butcher #homelander #mothers milk #starlight #karl urban #antony starr #laz alonso #jack quaid #jensen ackles #solider boy #karen fukuhara

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honey-bri-books · 9 months

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I can't wait to ugly cry to this movie. 😪💖🤍💙

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yourmomxx · 2 years

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The Boys Season 3 EPISODE 5 SPOILERS without context:

#gotta say this episode was a rollercoaster #the boys #the boys prime #the boys spoilers #the boys season 3 #amazon prime original #the boys season 3 spoilers #soldier boy #jensen ackles #william butcher #karl urban #frenchie and kimiko #hughie campbell #jack quaid

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neverwritewhatyouknow · 1 year

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If this made you feel any sort of way for even a moment. Anger, sadness, confusion. I would like to address that Hollywood loves to erase minority ethnicities whenever they can, because many don’t see it as the problem that it is.

This is fake. But you know what isn’t fake?

Daisy Edgar-Jones playing Jewish icon Carole King in an upcoming biopic.

Rachel Hilson playing Jewish Nora Holleran in the upcoming Amazon Prime Studios’ Red, White & Royal Blue.

Rachel Sennott in Shiva Baby.

Rachel Brosnahan in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

4/6 of the Goldbergs in ABC’s Jewish-family sitcom The Goldbergs.

(Just to name a few from the top of my head.)

Jews are a minority ethnicity, as well as followers of Judaism.

Jews are also one of the only minorities to never be treated as such in the eyes of the film and television industry. No other ethnicity would be played by someone not of that group in the year 2023, yet it’s happening almost weekly with Jewish characters and non-Jewish actors.

The erasure of any ethnicity is wrong. So when will people finally understand that erasing canonically Jewish characters or people, or actively searching out non-Jews, or relying on Jew-face is wrong? This erasure is so ingrained in society that most people don’t even notice it happening, but it is, and it’s wrong.