what i think is the reason I'm Just Ken is a good/as popular as it is is because the way it somehow explores both what its like to be a woman and man just through ken.
like the line "I'm just Ken. Anywhere else I'd be a ten." just feels very hitting as a woman in a social media world, especially if you've seen the truerateme subreddits and the ways they judge women.
and of course the fragility and inability to find meaning/self worth outside of a romantic relationship due to the strict boxes placed on men and male relationships (and even friendships between men and women).
theres more and i know im getting annoying with the barbie posts but i did really like the movie, regardless of how "bland" its feminism is. also just all the chronically online feminists complaining about how basic it is, like oh should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party? should we invite andrea dworkin.
like is it perfect? no. does it lack in intersectionality and have poc characters act as the support to white characters? yes. should ken probably of apologized? yeah. but many things can be true about one movie.
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Y'all do know you can't make Jason be NOT white without changing his whole character, right?
For other characters, yes, because their physical appearance are not that influential in their story, on how they are viewed by people, on their personality formation — you can have a black/asian/indigenous/arab/brown/latino/etc Nico and yes, the hate he gets will have a undertone of racism but at the same time nothing significant on his story, motivation or personality will need to change. This is also true for other characters: Clarisse risks repeating the "aggressive WoC" stereotype but the character itself doesn't change.
This isn't true for Jason, whose main character trait is how he is perceived by others and how he showcases himself to others based on that perception. (specially with how little effort Riordan put on him besides making him perfect-er Percy who's somehow also weaker and less important than him).
Let's not pretend a black, Arab, indigenous, Asian, Latin man, etc, in the USA would ever be treated with the universal reverence Jason gets from New Roma, you can't have the illusion of perfection and most of all, of invincibility they have about him when you see him suffering racism or xenophobia in the middle of a mission. Nothing in his life has ever gone wrong, that's his image, destined to be king, he is supposed to have no weakness on his peers eyes.
He is not trying to prove people wrong, he is trying to prove them right; he isn't worthy despite their prejudice, on the contrary, he only tried to make himself worthy to fulfill their expectations. He can't be a woman or an immigrant or have a visible disability or any other thing that strays him from a perfect ideal by western society standards, and be that same character.
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I love the same folks that cry over fictional lesbians being “toxic” and “abusive” buddy up with real life people that send actual homophobic hate. We see y’all laughing and having fun with the same losers that have been jumping on queer peoples posts saying we’re ruining Star Wars. You’re welcome to play the purity police and pretend to be the holiest & friendliest bunch on the internet, but we see you.
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After answering someone's question (which was very fun by the way thank you), I have decided to invite people to ask questions if they want about Camp Cretaceous, Chaos Theory and the Jurassic Universe in general.
I have loved Jurassic Park since I first opened my eyes and Camp Cretaceous has only caused that passion to double (it's a proper hyperfixation and my family are worried about me).
I have lots of theories and stuff on Chaos Theory so please ask away.
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honestly at this point id be fine with projmoon just axing limbus in general bc 1. how the fuck are you going to go on after you axed THE cg artist, the artist illustrating 99% of your visual novel gameplay and making it good, therefore giving the people attacking you what they WANTED and giving them the power to do this AGAIN in the future, 2. the gacha model is NOT IT and exploitative and just overall the shittiest possible way to make money from your community and 3. its going to take forever and it will Kill and strain the existing artists to have more work shoved onto them because of the mistake genius crowd control move of firing THE CG ARTIST, and its never going to look or feel the same 4. I Do Not Want To Play A Game Ran B People Who Bend And Give In To Incels And Misogynists And Essentially Career Murder A Woman For Private Tweets Made As A Teenager
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