Posted on 05/07/2019 8:54:14 PM PDT by EdnaMode
If you live by the sword of identity politics, you're going to die by the sword of identity politics. Brie Larson, who's known as much for being a social justice warrior championing the cause of intersectionality as much as she's known for playing Captain Marvel, is facing calls to resign her largest, most lucrative acting gig to date. Those who want her to step down want her to do so in order for the producers to cast a gay woman of color.
The online petition, which has garnered nearly 7,000 signatures as of the writing of this article, declares:
We need Brie Larson to step down from her role to prove she is an ally of social justice and ensure a gay woman of color plays the role. Let Monica, the original female & BLACK Captain Marvel instead of white-washing characters for the benefit of the straight, white men running Disney. She hasn't donated money to any charity other than The Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation (https://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/brie-larson) and it's time for her to show she is not all-talk.
Many of the comments reflect the same intersectional mindset, demanding that artificial diversity trump things like qualifications. My "favorite" comment offers this blistering take:
"Isn't it time for white women like Brie to check their privilege and allow lesbian women and women of color to have a chance. I feel that White Women in America have been represented enough...it's time. Brie speaks about representation and diversity yet she is the over represented race and cis sex. Step aside Larson and Give the role to someone else." The one thing I agree wholeheartedly with is the need for Brie to be confronted with her own SJW hypocrisy. She goes around demanding that everyone else bow before the god of identity politics, all while cashing fat checks that, according to her own ideology, could be going to a member of a more privileged/oppressed identity group.
While making the rounds on the press junkets promoting Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame, Larson has stirred up quite a bit of controversy by sticking to the intersectional talking points about the lack of diversity within the film industry. In an interview with Variety, Larson bragged, "I'm happy to be on the forefront of the normalization of this type of content. And to prove once again that representation matters, diverse storytelling matters. And these are markers, and this is kind of in our society some of the ways that it takes in order to prove that point."
If Brie Larson believes her own intersectionality message, she will step down from her role as Captain Marvel to allow an actress from a more underrepresented identity group play the part. Granted, she's not going to do that. What she's really happy about is being on the forefront of cashing larger checks, acquiring more fame, and using her bully pulpit to prove how woke she is. Asking her to put her money where her mouth is will only serve to prove that her real superpower is hypocritical virtue-signaling.
How do they legally prove they are gay?
How many years must they stay gay?
Oh well, the real Captain Marvel (white, male, “Shazam”) beat the fake Captain Marvel anyway in the theaters, and what the SJWs are demanding would be beaten even harder.
I dislike Brie Larson in the role. I did not like the movie.
Having said that:
This is pure sophistry. There are more fundamental divergences from “legacy” and “canon” in this movie:
One: Removing the true first Captain Marvel (of Marvel, not Fawcett), Mar-Vell, a white male (Kree), and replacing him with Annette Bening’s character.
Two: Transforming the Skrulls from evil and dangerous invaders into sympathetic illegal aliens living in hiding because they are refugees just wanting a home.
The fact is, Carol Danvers was introduced 14 years before Monica Rambeau, and gained super-powers (from Mar-Vell’s DNA) 5 years before Rambeau.
She was Ms. Marvel - the female Captain Marvel.
I collected back then. That is how I saw it at that time too.
Lol!
But Stacy Abrams will probably nominate herself.
I’m not sure you have checked enough intersectional boxes.
Let’s start a petition that no white actress bitch ever be hired
again for any role in Hollywood. They’ve had their time. Make way for the brownies.
This is the kind of technical language you find in the political science textbooks today. Those words would be found in descriptions of Cultural Marxism. Yes, it is Marxism where each social identity fights for equal distribution of social treatment. In the natural world, there will always be a pecking order which is dependent on the value one has through achievement. The Social Marxist want to redistribute that value even though it has not been achieved. Giving someone a leading role base upon identity fails to give it based upon merit. This will lead to mediocre performances.
SJW - Social Justice Warrior’s. Just another example of a bunch of racist, bigoted POS’s that demand to have their way to make themselves look good and think that they have power when that have nothing but lies and deceit to fall back on. A true bunch of Lousy Lying Leftist, Liberal, Socialist/Communist Snowflake Loser Lunatics, that demand they must be heard, when all they have to say is complete and total Bovine Scatology (BS)!!!!!
It’s a wildcard declaration that some people use to claim they are more putupon than others.
They use it to put YOU “in your place”
Does she lose points for being a billionaire?
The Black Panthers of the 60's were a very violent hate-filled gang, but at least they didn't put nooses around their own necks and then blame others for it.
Hahahahahahaha, love it.
These miserable people are never happy and always destroy each other.
A gay woman of color is still cis and might be normative in several ways. Either they cast a bald body positive trans non binary Muslim Budhist Hindu Atheist of shifting colors (but never white or orange), or the producers are worse than Hitler.
LOL! I just thought the very same thing......
Well, they used to have multi-piece couches that included corners and loungers. They were called sectionals. So, intersectionality would be when the pieces got pushed apart and you fell down between them, right?
The mafia has spoken.
Correct question is what percentage of the studio heads?
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