You know, I never understood how every time you get a "tomboyish" character she ends up being a lesbian [or assumed to be by the fanbase] isn't some sort of offensive stereotype to them? I feel with their logic, even the most girly of girls should be just as equally possibly lesbians and if you say otherwise you are just stereotyping lesbians as butch.
What disturbs me is I think I could actually be a more consistent sjw than sjws are.... not that you can truly be....
I think there is deeper spiritual stuff to it...
but for a more surface answer. It is literally fashion and power + a place for people with no community to suddenly have one and feel as a part of something. But mostly it is fashion.
He may be but that is definitely different enough to change the "narrative" of what the media would be going for there.
If I saw their overly brightened photo I would think white guy. You look at the other pics not edited I would not think that even if he isn't the darkest.
I always love this part of the declaration of independence that no one seems to realize exists. I mean even wikipedia [pretty darn left these days and often trying to wash this stuff away] says about this part: "Outlines a general philosophy of government that justifies revolution when government harms natural rights."
I don't think you can reasonably say an American's natural rights have not long been harmed or even more so....
I have an aunt who is like this. Not with coffee, but with every meal she ever orders at a restaurant. She orders 300 modifications to EVERYTHING [she is an incredibly picky eater] and then gets all pissy when they get something ultra minor wrong.
I agree, she dug her own grave by having 300 modifications that she didn't even state clearly to the waiter.
I honestly never bought that theory much. Hey I could be wrong I am no expert.
I just feel like if that were true, why is it that pretty much all classical to nearly modern Asian art.... everyone looks freakin' super Asian in it? So, I guess leaving this at just the Japanese scope [although it applies to many other areas of Asian art] Japanese people through pretty much all of history saw themselves look as well.... they actually look, but bam suddenly they see themselves looking totally differently despite not looking any different? Suddenly Japanese people see themselves as white with rarely Japanese colored hair or eyes? [I get there is some of that being a cartoon but it is hardly even close!]
I think the thing is, if you look at many anime characters: yes, most seem to look white and not Japanese. Does that mean though that they don't have SOME Japanese features? Actually in many characters they still do have some subtle Japanese features, even very white ones that I think many people in the west don't immediately notice. However, they are very subtle and not significant enough to ever justify this theory in any way.
I guess I would put it this way, most anime characters seem to be white with light Japanese features, not Japanese with closer to white features, and that is not enough at all to justify this idea.
I just can't see how this adds up if you look at all of even recent [ancient to early to mid 1900s] Japanese art. Even if you want to say that it is a difference between manga art styles I guess "higher classical art" [however you want to word it not to imply that manga drawings are a lesser art I just can't think of a better way of putting it] then even early manga Japanese people look like.... Japanese people. I am sure you can find exceptions, but they tend to be exceptions and not the norm.
Not to mention, if it is the case that cultures see cartoons or stickmen in their own ethnicity, why does this seem to generally only be the case with japanese/asian art? I don't look at old cartoons from India or Brazil, or Russian, or whatever and see "white american (or whatever)" or most other places. They just look generally like what you would expect of that country. If this were actually true, why does it seem to be generally focused on Japan [or you could argue this one genre of art in Japan(anime/manga)] in this way? Why do most people only see it specifically with this particular one? This theory just holds no water. Sure if you get SUPER simplistic art styles they will start to look generic enough [but how often is anime/manga very simplistic?] Heck most japanese animes/mangas are almost detailed enough to be on par with more "classical artwork" if not exceed it in detail yet they still somehow often just look white with incredibly light asian features.
Don't get me wrong.... I love anime and I think Japan is pretty rad in some ways. But, feel like this whole theory is so littered with holes that it is only there as some awkward and weird defense of Japanese culture along the ways of the left trying to feel that if Japanese people draw them not looking very asian that it is somehow some denying of asian people or whatever.
Hey I could be wrong, but it just seems completely like nonsense.
I live in I think one of two counties in my state that still has the mask mandate. My county a week ago had a meeting to remove it or not, said "no, people may lie about their vaccination so keep it going." [Actually just found out... turns out the mask mandate in my county was finally let to expire about 50 minutes ago]
So, this last week almost NO businesses have listened to the county mandate in town [I live in the one left wing town in the state pretty much, only county that votes democrat every year, rest of the state votes republican]. People just heard "HEY BIDEN SAID NO MASKS!" and have been living by that. I think people are just fed up with the masks anyway. But yeah, my county has been super strict over it, but you would think everyone magically got vaccinated like 2 days ago the way they act now :P
I dunno.... some of the theories behind it kinda make too much sense... but I dunno
If that truly was his plan, I actually would think it would have been worth making jarjar THAT bad in the first movie.
And if it was the plan, then him just backing that off instead of sticking with it made it a sorta unredeemable thing. IF that theory had gone through, you could have looked back at movie 1 jarjar as some hardcore troll with a great payoff. Now looking back it just is a sucky character that pads screentime in the most obnoxious way.
""Incel is a term short for "involuntary celibate," which began as a misogynistic internet subculture."
Look, I am assuming that most people don't actually call themselves an "incel." What ever happened to being able to self identify?
No, watch her using her woman of color-ness todefeat the predator in hand to hand combat in every encounter while her foolish white male companions keep messing up the situation so the predator barely gets away each time and is the only reason she ever gets "beaten."
I totally agree. I wouldn'tq uite call it good.... I found it alright.... except for when you realize it is an Aliens movie. It totally does make the movie Aliens a worse movie if you consider Alien 3 cannon. It makes everything about Newt and Hicks and what is done for them in Aliens just a worthless joke. So, I legit just pretend it isn't cannon on that one. How do you mess up a movie so bad it actually lowers the quality of a separate movie like Aliens xD?
That is what really killed Alien 3 for me. Throwing away Newt and Hicks like they never mattered. Honestly it turning out that way actually makes Aliens a worse movie because basically so much done to save the girl... just was a worthless waste. I guess if you want a nihilistic overtone that works but as far as actually it being a good movie, it just outright sucks.
I mean think about it, Alien 3 actually somehow made Aliens [which is an excellent movie] a WORSE movie just by Alien 3 coming out. So I just dont' even consider alien 3 cannon. I don't think it is unreasonable to say though that it actually does lower the impact of a ton of the previous movie with what they did to them.
It would be interesting but everything would be anachronistically changed to be a reference today somehow and completely distort the meaning of its original context.