— jonathan safran foer, extremely loud and incredibly close.
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kings and queens and guillotines: ugly-feelings: sometimes i just want to get a fake orange spray tan...
sometimes i just want to get a fake orange spray tan and bleach my hair blonde and wear hollister and a&f and american eagle and uggs exclusively and wear frosted lipglosses and make ducklips faces and care about jersey shore and gossip girl. because apparently “nice” dudes…
This right here? This is what is wrong with this fandom. Refusing to accept any changes to a character, because God forbid a woman of color take a on a role that has been played almost exclusively by white men for the last 100 years. The inability of fans to not be able to “imagine” Watson as anything but a white guy says a lot more about them then it does about the character. You can’t imagine him as anything else because that’s all he’s been shown as. Now you’re being given the opportunity to see a character portrayed in a completely different and unique way and you refuse because you don’t think it “fits” him. The problem isn’t Elementary, it’s you. Because you only will digest media that fits your narrow perspective of the world, i.e. white and male. It’s not that Lucy Liu’s interpretation doesn’t fit for the character, it’s that your incapable of making it fit because it’s so much easier for you to stick with the interpretation that’s already been done a million times.
Which just makes the second claim of the media “promoting heterosexuality” all that more amusing and ridiculous. Newsflash for BBC Sherlock watchers: Holmes and Watson are not gay. Read any interview with your beloved showrunner and it’s clear that they have no intention of making them gay, or be in a relationship with one another. You can interpret and read into subtle signals all you want, but the fact remains that those two characters are not in a romantic relationship and never will be. Yet, you’d think from the outcry over Elementary creating the potential for a heterosexual relationship that Sherlock should be airing on Bravo, not PBS. You know what’s really not revolutionary? Homoerotic subtext between two white male characters. Go look at USA’s entire schedule, or even House. Sherlock is not breaking an new ground. You know what is revolutionary? A network airing a series that creates the potential for a romantic relationship between a white male and a female of color. That’s big. That’s important.
I’m not saying Elementary is going to end racism in television, but it’s doing a lot more than Sherlock in terms if portraying new and interesting relationships and dynamics. Basically, fuck no Sherlock fans. Fuck no.
A teacher in New York was teaching her class about bullying and gave them the following exercise to perform. She had the children take a piece of paper and told them to crumple it up, stomp on it and really mess it up but do not rip it. Then she had them unfold the paper, smooth it out and look at how scarred and dirty is was. She then told them to tell it they’re sorry. Now even though they said …they were sorry and tried to fix the paper, she pointed out all the scars they left behind. And that those scars will never go away no matter how hard they tried to fix it. That is what happens when a child bullies another child, they may say they’re sorry but the scars are there forever. The looks on the faces of the children in the classroom told her the message hit home. Pass it on.
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