Flaming hot take, but not every movie or TV show needs to hit every individual diversity mark to be a good movie or show?
Like, please understand, I very much get the concept of intersectionality, and I know the actual statistics of minorities’ presence in the world and there is a whole lot of overlap that would be nice to see realistically portrayed in the media but it’s just like. Sometimes a story is just…A story. It’s one person’s story. And it doesn’t need to hit some specific diversity quota to be a good story.
Accept the movies about Latin people as a movie about Latin people. Accept the queer representation as queer representation. Take the story about the disabled person for what it is. But if it’s a story about a queer couple facing adversity, maybe don’t get up in arms about them not being the “right type” of queer for you. Wild idea? TELL THAT STORY YOURSELF.
Because sometimes that straight couple is dealing with other issues in their universe, and that’s why it’s not gay. Sometimes if you cast a black woman, that makes it a black story. And that Asian storyteller isn’t telling the story of a black woman. They’re telling their story.
So instead of getting mad that this isn’t the story YOU wanted to hear? Tell the story you wanted to hear. Because that one is theirs. And someone deserves to tell yours.
The diversity quota does as much of a disservice to storytelling as a lack of representation does. If you don’t resonate enough, make something we can resonate with more. Let us claim our stories as our own, and leave others to say what they want to say.
If we all tell our stories, I promise. Eventually you’ll find one just for you.
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genuinely so hard finding jews who aren't zionist because most jews, in an american sense of racial structure, are white (in reality they are either ashkenazim or converts in my life). the only jews i know who agree with me that israel is acting as a horrific colonizer r the brown and black (beta israel, mizrahim, and converts in my life) ones like myself and i feel like this trend, while anecdotal, could be beyond just my life. anyway there is no reason for israel to continuously expand its boarders and overwhelm citizens just to "get to the hamas". there is no reason, in order to feel safe, the state needs to eradicate an entire nation of people. every adult civilian in israel is trained military personal, they are soldiers in reserves, the people of palestine are not. for every single terrorist extremist in palestine I bet money there are five highly trained israeli soldiers with the military might of the entire west backing them. this is not even close to a fair fight, so sorry for not wanting land back if it means we have to rip innocent people to shreds for it. colonization is not salvation and we do not deserve this land more than our abrahamic sisters.
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