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Lemme guess, you’re Caucasian. Imagine growing up and not seeing a single superhero who looks like you. It matters.

version_five 5y ago
I'm not going to make any assumptions about you, but when I was growing up (I'm 41), off the very top of my head, Samuel L Jackson was the essence of cool, Bruce Lee movies were awesome, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) was an organically good action hero. My favorite movie for the last 25+ years is Bad Boys. I feel ridiculous even trying to go through movies to separate who is non-white which I guess you're after. It seems a more recent phenomenon that we've started to pretend that somehow movie heroes are all white (caucasian in whatever classification system you use) men, but that's a recent thing that came with the modern "progressive movement". I can't speak for your experience (or the experiences of others that maybe your imagining empathizing with), but in everything I've seen, we had a normal period where race etc didn't matter and then people decided to pretend it did again. I can't think of any instance in which the change has actually been for the better. People are more polarized than ever, nobody is actually getting treated better, and movies are worse. Also, FYI, your comment is racist garbage, how about leaving participants race out of the discussion instead of "lemme guess"ing,
- pupppet 5y ago
  Yes you enjoyed Bruce Lee and Bad Boys because they were a novelty. Now ask yourself why were they a novelty. Because it's a medium full of white people. >Also, FYI, your comment is racist garbage, Not a stretch to assume someone who believes everyone else has the luxury of worrying about the same trivial things you do is white.
  - number6 5y ago
    May I ask, if you are not Caucasian, which I don't know if you are not, how watching movies, with a non diverse cast, affected you in your life and thinking?
lostmsu 5y ago
When I was growing up, my superheroes looked like chipmunks, ducks and turtles.
- number6 5y ago
  And now we have furrys.
dissent 5y ago
By "looks like" you actually mean "shares superficial traits with".

I'm not going to make any assumptions about you, but when I was growing up (I'm 41), off the very top of my head, Samuel L Jackson was the essence of cool, Bruce Lee movies were awesome, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) was an organically good action hero. My favorite movie for the last 25+ years is Bad Boys. I feel ridiculous even trying to go through movies to separate who is non-white which I guess you're after. It seems a more recent phenomenon that we've started to pretend that somehow movie heroes are all white (caucasian in whatever classification system you use) men, but that's a recent thing that came with the modern "progressive movement". I can't speak for your experience (or the experiences of others that maybe your imagining empathizing with), but in everything I've seen, we had a normal period where race etc didn't matter and then people decided to pretend it did again. I can't think of any instance in which the change has actually been for the better. People are more polarized than ever, nobody is actually getting treated better, and movies are worse. Also, FYI, your comment is racist garbage, how about leaving participants race out of the discussion instead of "lemme guess"ing,

pupppet 5y ago
Yes you enjoyed Bruce Lee and Bad Boys because they were a novelty. Now ask yourself why were they a novelty. Because it's a medium full of white people. >Also, FYI, your comment is racist garbage, Not a stretch to assume someone who believes everyone else has the luxury of worrying about the same trivial things you do is white.
- number6 5y ago
  May I ask, if you are not Caucasian, which I don't know if you are not, how watching movies, with a non diverse cast, affected you in your life and thinking?

lostmsu 5y ago

When I was growing up, my superheroes looked like chipmunks, ducks and turtles.

number6 5y ago
And now we have furrys.

dissent 5y ago

By "looks like" you actually mean "shares superficial traits with".