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thewayneI don't like using a lot of profanity. When you unexpectedly stub your toe or injure yourself, they've proved that using profanity lessens pain. Good. But indiscriminate use of it - I just don't like it and I try to avoid it.
I'd never heard of this actress before, but apparently the rest of the world had judging by the amount of squee emitted.
But this deserves venting.
Thank you, Bored Panda, for providing this, and my rant is under the cut.
OMFG.
These fucking idiots think that SCIENCE PROVES that a FICTIONAL CHARACTER MUST BE PLAYED BY A WHITE WOMAN!
Because "it's dark underwater" and "you can't have melanin production without sunlight", never mind that melanin production is genetic.
Have you seen black fish? I have.
Fish come in quite a variety of colors!
And then there's the whole SHE'S A FUCKING FICTIONAL CHARACTER BIT!
WITH A SINGING CRAB!
I don't recall people complaining about different underwater races being different colors in Aquaman. Maybe they did and I just didn't hear about it.
I did not want to see this movie. I do not like Disney simply taking an animated movie, remaking it as a live movie, and saying "Look! Give us money!" It's no better than taking an '80s TV show and making it in to a lousy movie. And yet, because of these FUCKING MORONS, I'm going to have to go to the theater and shell out $30 (including concessions, or $65+, including dinner) to see this movie to help it to succeed wildly just to rub it IN THE FACE OF THESE FUCKING IDIOTS.
https://www.boredpanda.com/people-using-science-mermaid-cant-be-black-explanation-shut-down/
(Don't hold back, Wayne, tell us what you really think!)
I'd never heard of this actress before, but apparently the rest of the world had judging by the amount of squee emitted.
But this deserves venting.
Thank you, Bored Panda, for providing this, and my rant is under the cut.
OMFG.
These fucking idiots think that SCIENCE PROVES that a FICTIONAL CHARACTER MUST BE PLAYED BY A WHITE WOMAN!
Because "it's dark underwater" and "you can't have melanin production without sunlight", never mind that melanin production is genetic.
Have you seen black fish? I have.
Fish come in quite a variety of colors!
And then there's the whole SHE'S A FUCKING FICTIONAL CHARACTER BIT!
WITH A SINGING CRAB!
I don't recall people complaining about different underwater races being different colors in Aquaman. Maybe they did and I just didn't hear about it.
I did not want to see this movie. I do not like Disney simply taking an animated movie, remaking it as a live movie, and saying "Look! Give us money!" It's no better than taking an '80s TV show and making it in to a lousy movie. And yet, because of these FUCKING MORONS, I'm going to have to go to the theater and shell out $30 (including concessions, or $65+, including dinner) to see this movie to help it to succeed wildly just to rub it IN THE FACE OF THESE FUCKING IDIOTS.
https://www.boredpanda.com/people-using-science-mermaid-cant-be-black-explanation-shut-down/
(Don't hold back, Wayne, tell us what you really think!)
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Date: 2019-07-07 03:19 am (UTC)(Optimal aquatic mammal size for thermal efficiency is apparently around half a ton. Sea-lion mermaids to that scale would be entertaining. And look, most of them are very dark indeed; being reflective at depth is bad.)
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Date: 2019-07-07 06:57 am (UTC)And now my brain is flashing/slashing on a new category for AO3….
Excellent point about being reflective at depth!