CADAVEROUS CONFECTIONARY: Men's Issues
- Societal expectations of masculinity
- Societal expectations to be a provider.
- No long term reversible male birth control
- Men who are raped are more likely to remain silent and be dismissed, than be outright laughed at
- Unfair treatment in child…
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Most of these people have obviously not read the books.
If they had, they would know there is no racial component to slavery as practiced on Essos. It is based on slavery as it existed in the ancient world. The Romans and Greek were just as willing to enslave other Greeks and Romans as they were Celts, Goths, Germans, and Africans. It’s on the page.
However, when you are filming scenes in Morocco, and you put out a call for extras, it’s Moroccans who show up. Most of them are darker skinned than our European actors (though there is actually a lot of different races and ethnic groups represented in the country, including Arabs, Berbers, Africans, French, etc). It is not so different from shooting a scene in Belfast and putting out a call for extras, whereupon a lot of Irish show up.
We fly our actors from country to country and continent to continent, at considerable expense, but that’s not a practical consideration when dealing with extras. So in any big crowd scene, the prevailing skin color is always going to echo that of whatever the location is that you’re shooting in.
But just for the record, yes, Dany is white, just as she has been from the beginning, and she may or may not be a savior (the last scene in “Mhysa” is not the end of her journey by any means), but she frees slaves of all colors, races, creeds, and nationalities.
-George RR Martin, on his livejournal.
After the finale of Game of Thrones Season 3, FatPink(pod)Cast put together a blog post compiling a bunch of critics’ reactions to the end scene, which many people (our podcast included) felt read like a “white savior” trope. Rather than argue it ourselves, why not pull together an aggregate demonstrating that there were widespread concerns about the depiction? The blog post went up and over the past week has garnered over 7,300 tumblr notes.
Over on George RR Martin’s official livejournal, Иван Троловский asked Martin what he thought about our post? (Helpfully adding that he thought it was “narrow-minded stereotipical[sic] thinking…irrelevant toe struggle against racism…and even harmful for it.” *indignant cough* ) They asked Martin how to “reduce the harm” of these “foolish associates.”
Here’s Martin’s reply. While he does not directly address the uh, purported harm we have caused by discussing the problematic imagery of the show, he does provide some insight on how the scene was cast and Dany’s race. (Though personally, I’d caution against the premises that the people reading the scene have not read the books, that the show can’t stand by itself without greater context from the book, and that the logistics of extras in the filming site somehow invalidate concerns about the show replicating a classic white savior trope.)
-M
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(Source: grrm.livejournal.com)
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Interesting.
This is actually really interesting.
This is legitimately not jut about boobs,just watch it,youll learn something about modern cinema
A video about the straight cis male gaze in cinema (and video games), examples of it, and talking about how even when men are sexualized on screen, it’s still as active agents and not as a collection of body parts where the camera zooms in and cuts to various secondary sex characteristics. Not a new concept, but the video is still interesting, even as just food for thought.
I also think having it deconstructed visually like he does, helps one pay a little more attention to how the world around us is constructed via the media we consume, in even small subtle ways, like where the camera focuses, pans, and zooms in on, and the difference between cuts that show pieces of the body versus full face & body shots. (This is, of course, also applicable to stuff like comics, such as this Vampirella page where several panels are dedicated to her butt, or Ed Benes’ penchant for drawing “looking up at her butt” angles in panels with women in them.)
Sometimes it’s a conscious decision, and the artist wants to do it that way, or has been told to by higher ups, or it’s a goal of the company/marketing department, and sometimes, I think, it’s not necessarily conscious, but just how we’ve grown used to seeing scenes/panels with women constructed and having grown up with this media, we do it ourselves without thinking (i.e. “just what you do” as discussed in a previous post.)
Also, this doesn’t mean it’s NEVER a thing to do, sometimes it can be used very effectively, and increases the understanding of a scene (like the Austin Powers example where we are supposed to be seeing her through his eyes), but it’s when it becomes the norm of depicting women in all situations, that it can be a barrier to some of the audience in their enjoyment of the media, or their feeling of immersion, and send a message of “this is not for you.”
It can also hurt what you want people to get out of a scene. If every character is being treated to the “wow look at that hottie” camera angles and framing, then what do you do if you actually have a character that’s supposed to have that conveyed? Kind of like if every heroine must be in high heels and revealing clothing, it can make it difficult to distinguish the characters where that choice of clothing is supposed to inform the viewer about their personality.
As I said, just something to think about once you’re aware of it. :)
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The Frenemy.: A Short List of Things I Do Not Understand
- When a dress you really like has one of those stupid thick elastic bands underneath the boobs and your body immediately looks like dogshit in the dress.
- Also: Surprise! The dress is actually a romper
- Why Facebook keeps putting dieting ads and engagement rings as ‘suggested posts’ for me NO…
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