Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-28-2010

[andrewducker]

• Women freeze eggs to wait for 'Mr Right'
  I don't even _like_ frozen eggs
  (tags: women fertility)
• 'Exceptional' oil find made in North Sea
  So, time to declare independence?
  (tags: oil scotland)
• Decoding Microsoft’s Fantastic Passive-Agressive Numbers Post
  (tags: microsoft google apple business statistics 2010 numbers yahoo)
• Angry M. Night Shyamalan denies Airbender racism
  (tags: race racism movies media)

Comments

[innerbrat]

Oh dear lord.

"I'm Asian so I can't be racist!"

"It's a cartoon and the ethnicities weren't obvious!"

"Who cares if the culture is based on Asia?"

"I fought for the correction pronunciation!" (And yet... failed. I thought directors had the ability to tell actors how their characters' names are pronounced)

"I made it the most culturally diverse movie serie of all time!" - by changing 'eskimo' to white, compressing all the cultures that inspired the cartoon into 'Asian' and adding 'mixed' and 'darker' (than mixed?) as races.

"It's a CARTOON! A FICTITIOUS CARTOON!"

"Aang looked white to me!"

"Just because it's made in Japan doesn't mean the characters are Japanese!" (It's an American cartoon)

At this point I'm claiming Bingo and going back to ignoring that movie with every fibre of my being.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Christ. Could we not just leave it there?

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

*raspberry* to M. Night Shyamalan. *raspberry*

The three leads are Asian and when the first casting call went out it was for Caucasians. They have Causacians playing Asians. Wrong.

I can see why Mr. Shyamalan feels the way he does, and perhaps he has to say what he is saying to keep his job.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Of course it's racist. Hollywood films are racist and much as he claims to be some kind of special maverick who lives by his own rules, he's not. When you constantly get obviously English or mainland European villains, that's racism too, the same as the way gay characters are stereotyped in hollywood films, or certain stereotypes of black people, or asians that crop up over and over.

That said, since the article says that the heroes are caucasian but the main character (or at least, the titular character) isn't caucasian, that'd suggest someone maybe didn't look too far.