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theoceanandthesky:

karnythia:

pikafuli:

thinkofyellowbutterflies:

karnythia:

fisticuffsandadventure:

thesavagesalad:

feministdisney:

“Are you sure this movie was created in 2010?” Said the other Stabbington brother, in disbelief.   “And they think we’re the bad guys of this movie?  Talk about underrepresentation.”

“Well if you or Gothel are interested in reading more about it, I found a really good tumblr discussion about this entire issue,” said the first Stabbington brother.

(*POC: Person or People of Color)

but seriously tho

even though Tangled had a cute story and amazing art

for a movie that was made in like what? 2010? 2011? It is incredibly unsettling knowing that there was not a single POC. 

idk- story time

Little Bangladeshi girl I used to babysit- she’s got dark brown skin and curly black hair and she owns this blond wig you know? And when ever she feels “ugly” (which is most of the time which breaks my heart) she puts on that blond wig so she can feel pretty again. She got that wig after she watched Tangled. She was so distressed by the fact that she was nothing like Rapunzel (or anyone in that whole movie) or all the other girl focused movies where the leads are always white ( with exception to Tiana, Mulan, Pocahontas and Jasmin) with long straight hair- that she got that wig so she could console herself with the fact that she isn’t “white girl pretty” as she likes to call it.

It’s the same bullshit I grew up with and internalised. There is an 18 year age gap between the two of us and I shit you not, the perceptions of beauty and what it means to be beautiful have not changed at all. Only difference is where I used to put powder all over myself to look white, she’s got a blond wig.

I know there’s gonna be people out there who say “it’s just disney! it’s just a kids movie! you’re an adult so you have no say”

Yeah, it is fucking Disney. If you knew about the history of Disney, it’s loaded with racism. The kids movie bit also turns to shit because what- aren’t our POC babies not worthy of being called kids? Aren’t they deserving of having kids shows that have folks who look like them in it? These things matter- believe me, they do.

As for the adults comment- that is actually really fucking scary that it is adults who make this. It’s adults who have a say in what kids can watch. And the adults who made this movie made it pretty darn clear that POC weren’t good enough for kids to watch in this movie. Or that POC kids aren’t deserving of a diverse viewing experience.

:/

man one of my biggest problems with people who are like ‘omg stop complaining it’s not like kids will notice’

kids DO notice

shit, i noticed

and my friends all noticed too.

why do you think i got told to be jasmine or pochahontas when we played around w/ that shit when i wanted to be snow white? because kids notice. they looked at snow white in all her lily-white fucking adorable-ass glory and looked at me and saw some frizzy-haired brown bitch and they’re like, ‘nope.’

kids can develop massive complexes over this shit. little white girls start acting like they’re better because they get the quote-unquote cool princesses and little poc girls feel like shit that they don’t look like the ‘good’ princesses.

so while it may not be the most important thing ever omg in terms of race relations, it does have an effect so can we please stop pretending it doesn’t ok yes thank you.

Even as an adult it took me months to love myself with natural hair, because that belief that only straight hair is pretty is so ingrained by the media. Not just in cartoons, but in all the TV shows, magazines, comics, books, & commercials that are out there (including many that are POC focused) seeing someone of color is rare, & seeing someone of color with curly dark hair is almost unheard of…see Storm from the X-men as an example, & follow that up with most depictions of WOC outside of blaxploitation flicks & occasionally stuff like Sesame Street until at least the 80’s. Even after the 80’s black women with natural hair are rarely depicted as the attractive woman in the cast. Usually (see Half & Half) the black woman with natural hair is depicted as insecure & inferior to black women with straightened hair. In fact I can’t think of any recent media where a black woman with an Afro is in the lead, much less depicted as sexy. Usually those roles go to lighter skinned black women with Europen features & hair textures that leave their ethnicity open to debate.

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 Okay, you guys are just getting really fucking obnoxious now. I support POC in movies, but just because they weren’t in Tangled, you’re going to complain? Are you sure this is a blog for equality or is it just another blog for bashing caucasians?

FUck you all, I’m done following this page. I don’t support whitewashing, but I’m not going to let people just bash my race for the hell of it. Assholes.

So much for the concept of support. Let me guess, you only POC in movies that you don’t care about?

lolol so white is a race now?

and we don’t fucking need you, if you’re only an ally until you get sick of us calling you out on your bullshit.

 #’bashing caucasians’ #are you serious