> It's the typical diatribe from this demographic that wants to add this to every conversation whether it's relevant or not.
One difficulty is that people who are not affected by it do not notice it and they don't think it's a big deal. It doesn't register that the star of almost every movie is a white male.
It's human nature to be lost in our own perspectives; it's why it's so important to make an effort to imagine walking around in other people's shoes: If you are a minority or a woman, you are faced with this discrimination everywhere. Every time you turn on the TV, walk down the street, at work, in social situations, dating, at the restaurant; when you read a history book, in the news (e.g., recent police discrimination issues), when you look at our government, when the camera at the football game picks out the young hot white women in the crowd, etc.
If bringing it up all the time makes you uncomfortable, maybe that's a good thing. If it seems like the issue comes up a lot, maybe that speaks to the enormity of the problem.
> It doesn't register that the star of almost every movie is a white male.
> If bringing it up all the time makes you uncomfortable, maybe that's a good thing.
It doesn't make me uncomfortable. I know it's an attack on a perceived villain, but in a "subtle" way. It's not subtle, it's completely transparent.
It's all about dollars. The industry thinks it'll make more money pushing white male/female stars. The racists are the movie going crowd voting with their dollar bills, and not the industry.
It doesn't make me uncomfortable that the majority of popular music is geared towards teenage white girls, because that's the market they want to capture. That's where the money is. Is that racist or ageist? No. It's marketing.
Often times these folks in charge are not only white males, but Jewish white males, which makes them a minority group as well. But that's not always pointed out.
One difficulty is that people who are not affected by it do not notice it and they don't think it's a big deal. It doesn't register that the star of almost every movie is a white male.
It's human nature to be lost in our own perspectives; it's why it's so important to make an effort to imagine walking around in other people's shoes: If you are a minority or a woman, you are faced with this discrimination everywhere. Every time you turn on the TV, walk down the street, at work, in social situations, dating, at the restaurant; when you read a history book, in the news (e.g., recent police discrimination issues), when you look at our government, when the camera at the football game picks out the young hot white women in the crowd, etc.
If bringing it up all the time makes you uncomfortable, maybe that's a good thing. If it seems like the issue comes up a lot, maybe that speaks to the enormity of the problem.