What is woke about the lil mermaid?

[Dutch Uncle]

I’m old enough to remember some people’s outrage when they began to feature blacks and mixed race couples in commercials. There was the same reaction from people then as with the Little Mermaid, now. They survived then, they will survive now!

Before Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, female actors were basically not allowed to be tough and lethal action heroes. They pretty much got limited to delicate flower roles, or the evil bitch roles.

I don't think anyone under the age of 80 bats an eye anymore at a Lara Croft tomb raider or Jennifer Lawrence, Hunger Games film.

Good point about Weaver although I don't remember much controversy about the movies.

I do recall some women's groups complaining about the sexually revealing appearance of Lara Croft, which followed the artwork of the game. The Jumanji sequel even made a joke about it when Martha as Ruby Roundhouse said "Why am I wearing this outfit in a jungle? Tiny, little shorts and a leather halter top. I mean, what is this?"

The umbrage from the Alt-Right over Halle Bailey's skin tone is part of a long patten of Alt-Right white supremacy and bigotry. Being against "Woke" is simply code for white supremacy just like "America First" is code for white supremacy.

IMO, the whole "woke" thing was overblown to begin with, simply "civil rights" dressed up in 21st century clothing. The Alt-Right has taken this flash in the pan and weaponized it like Joseph McCarthy did with communism and "the Red Scare".

Rather than going directly against Trump's treason and past pedophilia, DeSantis has latched onto "Woke" as the basis of his entire platform. Fearmongering against commies worked for McCarthy and the Republicans in the 1950s. DeSantis is hoping fearmongering against wokeism will work for him in 2024.

 

[Nomad]

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I think I care less than you.

Which you are within your rights to do.

As far as my level of "care", I mainly just find it annoying.

It's phony, contrived, "check the (ethnicity/gender) boxes" bullshit.

Non-hispanic whites are only 60 percent of the population and dropping fast. The days when 95 percent of actors are going to be Caucasian are over, and more minority faces in film is just going to be a business reality. I didn't even really think about it very much until I saw this thread. I wouldn't be surprised if the next Beauty and the Beast reboot has an actress of Asian heritage in the lead role.

"Only 60%" ??? The next closest ethnicity is Hispanic, which is ONLY around 20%. Blacks are ONLY around 12%.

And by "dropping fast", whether intentional or not, what you're actually saying, is that at some point maybe around a century or so from now, whites will "ONLY" comprise around 50% of the population or slightly less, meaning we will no longer be the majority, but we will still represent the largest SINGLE ETHNIC BLOCK, while the other 50% will be divided between everyone else.

This idea that the far left loves to posit about how whites will soon become a small minority of the population, is grossly exaggerated.

Negative publicity from what? Making Ariel a redheaded Irish lass in the live action fantasy like they did in the 1989 cartoon fantasy?

IDK. Why do you think so?

Boycotts used to stand against injustice. Now they've been weaponized to push injustice.

Then why do they do it?

Actually, we do, but less than the percentage of the population. Remember all the whining about brownfacing? I record old movies , mostly westerns, on my Tablo. There was a lot of brown-facing then; Europeans playing Native Americans, Hispanics, etc. Yesterday it was Spencer Tracey playing Manuel in "Captain's Courageous". A few weeks ago it was Marlon Brando playing Emiliano Zapata.

What do you have against Freedom of Speech?

It's all about the money. What do you have against capitalism? It's the machine that powered our nation's wealth. Only the fucking morons look in their own yard for the answers. Making movies is expensive. White faces only constitute 15% of the global population. International markets are big business.

I'm not sure you quite understand the gist or thrust of this conversation.

I meant the negative publicity from the media screaming about Hollywood and the film industry being racist because they don't hand out leading roles to black actors based solely on their race.

Which is what I believe was OBVIOUSLY done with this movie.

The media loves controversy and they fan the flames of it whenever possible.

They also love victims and David vs Goliath stories. Why? Because it sells. It draws readers and viewers like flies to a picnic.

In this case, blacks started complaining about not getting enough top movie roles (even though blacks are just over 12% of the population) and started making the usual accusations of racism in the film industry, so immediately the studios start handing out white roles to black actors rather than creating new roles for them.

All that other stuff you said has nothing to do with anything.

Casting lead actors based on skin color in order to mollify one of the smallest minorities in the country is the opposite of capitalism.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I meant the negative publicity from the media

How many times do I have to post "It's all about the money" before it sinks into your brain housing group?

 

[Diesel]

Maybe you ought to re-read the meme

I ought to? You mean my parents? I thank them for raising me properly every day, you fucking moron.

 

[Cypress]

Good point about Weaver although I don't remember much controversy about the movies.

I do recall some women's groups complaining about the sexually revealing appearance of Lara Croft, which followed the artwork of the game. The Jumanji sequel even made a joke about it when Martha as Ruby Roundhouse said "Why am I wearing this outfit in a jungle? Tiny, little shorts and a leather halter top. I mean, what is this?"

The umbrage from the Alt-Right over Halle Bailey's skin tone is part of a long patten of Alt-Right white supremacy and bigotry. Being against "Woke" is simply code for white supremacy just like "America First" is code for white supremacy.

IMO, the whole "woke" thing was overblown to begin with, simply "civil rights" dressed up in 21st century clothing. The Alt-Right has taken this flash in the pan and weaponized it like Joseph McCarthy did with communism and "the Red Scare".

Rather than going directly against Trump's treason and past pedophilia, DeSantis has latched onto "Woke" as the basis of his entire platform. Fearmongering against commies worked for McCarthy and the Republicans in the 1950s. DeSantis is hoping fearmongering against wokeism will work for him in 2024.

We won't be hearing the rightwing screaming about wokism in 24 months.

It will disappear with other campaign slogans, like Sharia Law and wars on Christmas.


Leaving aside the poutrage over buzzwords, it really just comes down to racial resentment.

 

[Nomad]

Before Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, female actors were basically not allowed to be tough and lethal action heroes. They pretty much got limited to delicate flower roles, or the evil bitch roles.

I don't think anyone under the age of 80 bats an eye anymore at a Lara Croft tomb raider or Jennifer Lawrence, Hunger Games film.

Not quite true.

When I was a kid in the mid 60's, my favorite TV heroine was a female private eye/secret agent named Honey West, played by Anne Francis....

She was a judo and karate expert who tossed guys around like rag dolls.

Had a pet ocelot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_West_(TV_series)

And of course there was Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in The Avengers.

And going back farther there was Annie Oakley.

Sadly, in typical Hollywood fashion, these "tough gal" roles are always played by beautiful, wispy little fashion model types rather than the somewhat larger, more imposing type women who might actually be believable in these roles.

When I see one of these modern TV fashion model cops nowadays slamming some guy that's twice her size around and talking all tough bitch at him, I just shake my head and change the channel.

Everything about TV and the entertainment industry is just phony-baloney bullshit.

From badass fashion model cops (both male and female) to black girl mermaids and everything else.

Made to appeal to gullible idiots and people with low standards and high bullshit thresholds.

 

[Lionfish]

We won't be hearing the rightwing screaming about wokism in 24 months.

It will disappear with other campaign slogans, like Sharia Law and wars on Christmas.


Leaving aside the poutrage over buzzwords, it really just comes down to racial resentment.

Don't count on that.

 

[Lionfish]

Good point about Weaver although I don't remember much controversy about the movies.

I do recall some women's groups complaining about the sexually revealing appearance of Lara Croft, which followed the artwork of the game. The Jumanji sequel even made a joke about it when Martha as Ruby Roundhouse said "Why am I wearing this outfit in a jungle? Tiny, little shorts and a leather halter top. I mean, what is this?"

The umbrage from the Alt-Right over Halle Bailey's skin tone is part of a long patten of Alt-Right white supremacy and bigotry. Being against "Woke" is simply code for white supremacy just like "America First" is code for white supremacy.

IMO, the whole "woke" thing was overblown to begin with, simply "civil rights" dressed up in 21st century clothing. The Alt-Right has taken this flash in the pan and weaponized it like Joseph McCarthy did with communism and "the Red Scare".

Rather than going directly against Trump's treason and past pedophilia, DeSantis has latched onto "Woke" as the basis of his entire platform. Fearmongering against commies worked for McCarthy and the Republicans in the 1950s. DeSantis is hoping fearmongering against wokeism will work for him in 2024.

Mr. Tiny Penis, your book is available where?

 

[Cypress]

Don't count on that.

You all can't even define what woke is. You just know Fox ordered you to act angry about it.

Explain why school prayer, gay marriage, Sharia law, wars on Christmas have virtually disappeared from the Fox/Newsmax/GOP outrage machine.

 

[Lionfish]

Explain why school prayer, gay marriage, Sharia law, wars on Christmas have virtually disappeared from the Fox/Newsmax/GOP outrage machine.

Disappeared in your mind maybe

 

[Nomad]

How many times do I have to post "It's all about the money" before it sinks into your brain housing group?

Outside of your trite simplistic slogan, which you apparently think represents some kind of deep insight, you've not actually said anything.

Tell me how casting a lead actress in order to satisfy the demands of one of the smallest minority groups in the country is a sure-fire business strategy.

What do you think tells them that enough white, Asian and Hispanic people will run to the theater and plop down 10 bucks or more per ticket to see a rehash of an old animated feature just because she's now played by a black actor?

Maybe the live action mixed with animation will draw in the curious, but will it be enough of a hook to make their investment pay off?

Maybe, maybe not.

It's still contrived bullshit done for PR purposes AFAIC.

 

[QP!]

You're a babbling idiot repeating the same crap I already debunked because you have nothing else.

I have a long history here at JPP of being as virulent of an anti-Trump Democrat as any other leftist around here.

So your half-baked MAGA shit bounces off of me like a hollow little rubber ball off of a concrete wall.

You are weak.

Weak minded, weak kneed, weak spined, weak willed, weak of character.

And your debate skills reflect that weakness.

I just gave my opinion.

You are coming unglued.

Go sit at the kiddie table and play in the kiddie pool.

Where you belong.

You have not debunked shit. You make idiotic statements as if fact, that are wrong.


The Hollywood model (tv model) since the early 1900's is all about pandering to the audience they perceive is buying. Since that was, for most of history white males they got the bulk of WOKE pandering.

- white saviors placed into movies where the white man saves the 'savages' from others or themselves (Dances with Wolves, The Wall, Last of the Mohicans)
- whitewashing history with white actors playing the roll of real live historical people of colour or Fictional characters ('21', '30 Days of Night', 'Argo', 'Charlie Chan movies', 'A mighty Heart'. etc, etc)
- Average white men winning over beautiful women who would never notice them as wives or girlfriends (countless sitcoms and movies)


For well over 100 years almost all of the woke Pandering was directed at white males and their egos. To make them feel better about themselves. To give them the starring roles, even when the person in real life, who did the great thing was a PoC.


that has always been Hollywood (TV) then and now and that is fact. And that is fine. Figure out who your paying audience is and serve them.

It is only modern Hollywood (tv) history as the buying audience has changed, (PoC, Women, Asians) that Hollywood is now pandering to them too that white males cry victim with tears of 'MAKE IT STOP', as they can now see, what they did not notice when it was all just pandering to them. That was their norm. 'Everything for me... me..., me' and as they grew up spoiled that way they did not notice it. Now it is going to 'others' they want it stopped.

Conservative white males are the most fragile people on the planet. The true definition of snowflakes.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

I’m old enough to remember some people’s outrage when they began to feature blacks and mixed race couples in commercials. There was the same reaction from people then as with the Little Mermaid, now. They survived then, they will survive now!

Yep, I recall that as well. No doubt a number of ppl whining about the Disney movie making an imaginary character -- a mermaid -- non-white were crying about that back then, too, along with the parents who taught them racism from the cradle.

 

[Nomad]

You all can't even define what woke is. You just know Fox ordered you to act angry about it.

I can.

It's easy.

Woke is a term that more or less replaced PC/political correctness.

It's pandering to groups of people who cry and play the victim card, protest, hurl false accusations of injustice and cause trouble until they get the special treatment they demand, all with the help of the media which loves controversy so it fans the flames of each one until the next one inevitably comes along.

And the gullible progressive left swallows it.

 

[Concart]

We won't be hearing the rightwing screaming about wokism in 24 months.

It will disappear with other campaign slogans, like Sharia Law and wars on Christmas.


Leaving aside the poutrage over buzzwords, it really just comes down to racial resentment.

Don’t forget the caravans!!!! They are invading the country!!! CRT!!!! There are more I’m sure. It’s just such a joke.

 

[Nomad]

You have not debunked shit. You make idiotic statements as if fact, that are wrong.


The Hollywood model (tv model) since the early 1900's is all about pandering to the audience they perceive is buying. Since that was, for most of history white males they got the bulk of WOKE pandering.

- white saviors placed into movies where the white man saves the 'savages' from others or themselves (Dances with Wolves, The Wall, Last of the Mohicans)
- whitewashing history with white actors playing the roll of real live historical people of colour or Fictional characters ('21', '30 Days of Night', 'Argo', 'Charlie Chan movies', 'A mighty Heart'. etc, etc)
- Average white men winning over beautiful women who would never notice them as wives or girlfriends (countless sitcoms and movies)


For well over 100 years almost all of the woke Pandering was directed at white males and their egos. To make them feel better about themselves. To give them the starring roles, even when the person in real life, who did the great thing was a PoC.


that has always been Hollywood (TV) then and now and that is fact. And that is fine. Figure out who your paying audience is and serve them.

It is only modern Hollywood (tv) history as the buying audience has changed, (PoC, Women, Asians) that Hollywood is now pandering to them too that white males cry victim with tears of 'MAKE IT STOP', as they can now see, what they did not notice when it was all just pandering to them. That was their norm. 'Everything for me... me..., me' and as they grew up spoiled that way they did not notice it. Now it is going to 'others' they want it stopped.

Conservative white males are the most fragile people on the planet. The true definition of snowflakes.

You're too fucking stupid to know the difference between pandering and knowing who the audience is.

Pandering is bowing to demands of minorities just to keep them quiet and not causing trouble.

What you described was an industry responding to consumer demand.

Get a clue, you bitchy little Karen.

 

[Concart]

I can.

It's easy.

Woke is a term that more or less replaced PC/political correctness.

It's pandering to groups of people who cry and play the victim card, protest, hurl false accusations of injustice and cause trouble until they get the special treatment they demand, all with the help of the media which loves controversy so it fans the flames of each one until the next one inevitably comes along.

And the gullible progressive left swallows it.

You just described Trump supporters. Except the gullible right falls for it. Here’s the difference. Trump supporters are white people who have zero actual grievances. They just make them up. ‘Woke’ in business is about profit. You have to try in order to be bothered by it. At a certain point anti-woke is just woke with a different name. Frankly I think the whole thing is stupid. I don’t analyze or worry about artistic choices. I either like the art or I don’t. Anti woke is just as pretentious as woke.

 

[evince]

I can.

It's easy.

Woke is a term that more or less replaced PC/political correctness.

It's pandering to groups of people who cry and play the victim card, protest, hurl false accusations of injustice and cause trouble until they get the special treatment they demand, all with the help of the media which loves controversy so it fans the flames of each one until the next one inevitably comes along.

And the gullible progressive left swallows it.

It’s the brain melted right who falls for that definition

 

[evince]

The definition of Woke is in the dictionary folks

THAT IS THE DEFINITION

 

[evince]

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionar...=/wəʊk/-,/wəʊk/,that does not change anything.


woke adjective
/wəʊk/
/wəʊk/
(informal, often disapproving)
​aware of social and political issues, especially racism