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The new wave of gay ads | BuzzFeed
This year we have seen companies embrace a modern concept in gay advertising: the new normal. J.Crew, JC Penney and GAP are among several brands advertising to the LGBT community in a mature and completely approachable fashion that identifies with the pro-equality movement.
‘At least Black Widow will be good.’ THAT’S WHAT EVERYONE SAID THE MOMENT THEY HIRED JOSS WHEDON.
AND THE FUNNY THING ABOUT EVERYONE WHO MADE THAT BLIND ASSUMPTION IS THAT THEY WERE ULTIMATELY RIGHT. AFTER ALL, JOSS WHEDON HAS HAD HIS FAIR SHARE OF FEMALE ASS-KICKING HEROES, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY HE ALWAYS HAD A PENCHANT FOR MAKING THEM COMPELLING PEOPLE. IN HER PREVIOUS ROLE IN IRON MAN 2, BOTH SCARLET AND THE BLACK WIDOW CHARACTER WERE, WELL, FINE. BUT THERE IS NO DENYING SHE WAS PRETTY MUCH ONLY REQUIRED TO ALTERNATE BETWEEN SEXY/PROFESSIONAL AND KICK-ASS/PROFESSIONAL. THIS IS HOW MOST WOMEN’S ACTION ROLES ARE WRITTEN.
SO HOW DOES JOSS GO BEYOND THAT?
LOOK PEOPLE, IT’S NOT MAGIC. IT’S NOT EVEN THAT HARD. IT ALL COMES FROM A PLACE OF RESPECT. YOU BASICALLY SIT THERE AS A WRITER AND SAY THE FOLLOWING: “I will not take the easy route because I assume that is all that is expected of me. I will make this character a fully-realized person. I will give her a range of emotions. I will give her capacities beyond being sexy and kicking ass. I will give her great moments. I will not make her fight the other woman. I will give her the same stuff I’m required to give all the other characters.” THAT’S IT.
AND THAT’S HOW WE GOT A BLACK WIDOW WHO HAS GREAT MOMENTS, A SENSE OF HISTORY, A SENSE OF EMOTIONAL GRAVITAS, A RANGE OF EMOTIONS, AND HEY, WOULDN’T YOU KNOW IT? ALSO HAPPENS TO BE SEXY AND ASS-KICKING TOO. WHODATHUNK?
”geekscoutcookies:affectionateanarchy:pleadingthefilth:ladyatheist:silly-anthony:stfuconservatives:sexualassumptions:reagan-was-a-horrible-president:destroythegop:think-progress:
MSNBC host Tamron Hall drops the mic on a conservative journalist for refusing to answer her questions.
The ThinkProgress team actually paused what we were doing to watch this throwdown (quite rare).
Hey, whaddya know? Another Republican bully.
That. Was. Awesome.
She deserves a medal, a raise, a promotion, and a parade in her honor!
Yes. Good for her.
“You don’t want me to go ANYTHING on you.” OMG YES, Tamron Hall is my new queen.
-Jess
She handled it perfectly.
“Done.”
YAAAS
I mean….I mean damn. Damn, yall.
She used to be here in Chicago, i remember her being a NO nonsense type woman, but still just as classy and sweet as ever. YAAAS TAMRON!
“Loni Love has this bit about pilot season for black people or people of color not start[ing] until the end of March,” Brown recalled. “That’s when they have cast every other, main, character, and they look at their cast and go ‘Oh no. It’s all white. We need a black guy or something.’ And that’s when the auditions for the “all ethnicities” role of the security guard or meter maid go out, and you’ll see one little spec of color in the show.”
- Yvette Nicole Brown on breaking through industry stereotypes with Community
What are the best times to post to your favorite social media platforms? Bitly crunched the numbers and here’s what they found:
- Post 9am-3pm ET, Monday through Thursday
- Especially post 1-3pm ET, Monday through Thursday
- Avoid posting after 8pm ET during the weekends
- Avoid posting after 3pm ET on Friday and at all on weekends
- Post 1-4pm ET during the week
- Especially post midweek 1-3pm ET
- The very best time is Wednesday at 3pm ET
- Avoid posting between 8pm ET and 8am ET during the week
- Avoid posting on weekends
Tumblr (graphic posted above)
- Post from 4pm ET onward
- Especially post from 7pm-10pm ET onward, with Monday and Tuesdays being good
- Post on Friday evenings
(Sounds about right. Tumblr’s popularity in the evening supports my assessment that everyone likes to live-blog TV.)
- When POC characters are turned white: this isn't about race, if you think it is then you're the racist one, lets just enjoy the book/film as it is, this is about the character's personality god you're so sensitive, the new skin tone actually fits the character's personality IMO, I never imagined them as POC anyway, not all whitewashing is racist god get over it!!111
- When white characters (or "tanned" characters or unspecified characters) are turned into POC: omg how could they!?!?!? this is soooo racist and unfair! why cant they present that white character as WHITE, how dare they change the original skin color to suit their own terms! this is reverse racism!! this is about race! I NEVER imaged that white character to be a POC that is so weird, it doesn't fit, this is political correctness gone crazy!!
- Out Of A Whole Planet’s Population, One Hero Will Be Chosen: It’s Probably Going To Be A White Dude
#if not #hollywood would cast him white
What are the top ten most censored countries? According to new analysis by the Committe to Protect Journalists, they are:
- Eritrea
- North Korea
- Syria
- Iran
- Equatorial Guinea
- Uzbekistan
- Burma
- Saudi Arabia
- Cuba
- Belarus
Happy World Press Freedom Day….
BY THE NUMBERS: Women in TV
— Women of color directed 1% of TV episodes
— And make $23,325 less than male writers
— Women make up 15 percent of writers
— Women comprise 11 percent of directors
ThinkProgress’ Alyssa has some other fascinating stats.
African Stereotype of the Day: Gabriel, Benard, Brian, and Derrik, who live in Kenya, were inspired to poke fun at the way African men are portrayed by Hollywood: “If people believed only what they saw in movies,” they said, “they would think we are all warlords who love violence.” Mama Hope — an organization that partners with African organizations to help transform their communities — was more than happy to hand them a mic as part of a video campaign to “Stop the Pity, Unlock the Potential.”
Good stuff.
“This isn’t your typical love story…” opens the trailer for a movie about a white, heterosexual, cisgender, able-bodied, middle class, and likely loosely Christian couple who find each other through serendipity and a very small amount of actual work.
So I was thinking and I realized that when an email account, a phone or a computer gets hacked on Hollywood it’s always a woman’s. And like Megan Fox once said, they have to apologize to the world for something that’s not wrong at all because a jerk violated their privacy. I’m sure that if it was a male celebrity’s computer that was hacked and their pictures were all over the Internet, the comments would be anything but “omg what a slut”.
The media has a “false sense of objectivity”.
The idea that an objective media reporter should not take a stand on global warming, on evolution, practically on whether the Earth is flat or not, you know, not quite, but that’s what makes a reporter objective, that I sit here and I interview on the one hand Carl Pope talking about the dangers and the opportunities, etc, around climate change, and on the other side Senator James Inhofe, for example, who believes that global warming is a fraud, and my job is to simply give them a forum, and let the public decide. Now just think of it. This is absurd.
The media have been largely responsible for what is happening around big existential threats, because they have this Pontius Pilate approach to the truth. It’s as though there is no such thing as truth.
”Arianna Huffington - columnist, editor (via abitterredpill)
I have so many feelings re: reporters and bias/”objectivity.” We can’t stop politicians from lying, but we can call them on their blatant bullshit. It’s not “bias” to believe facts and science and reality. To entertain any false concept is irresponsible journalism. And there’s no point in pretending you’re a perfectly objective journalist. There is no truly objective reporter out there, because there’s no truly objective person out there.
-Jess
(via stfuconservatives)
This Is Insightful, You Should Watch It of the Day: The Bechdel Test is a straightforward evaluation of the gender bias present in a given movie.
To pass, a film must meet three requirements: 1) Have at least two female characters 2) who talk to each other 3) about something other than a man. (A variant of the rule called the “Mo Movie Measure” adds the requirement that the female characters must have names.)
Feminist Frequency’s Anita Sarkeesian applies the test to the 2012 Best Picture nominees to see if the pass.
Spoiler Alert: Most don’t.
[ontd.]
