what she means: the miseducation of cameron post (a drama about lgbt youth enduring conversion therapy, written and directed by Iranian bisexual woman Desiree Akhavan and based on a novel by a lesbian, starring several openly gay actors) won the Sundance grand jury prize 2018 aka the highest award for one of the most major film festivals in the world out of OVER ONE HUNDRED OTHER FILMS but still wasn’t able to get a good distribution deal because society is terrified of female sexuality and also refuses to validate any lgbt story which has the audacity to portray straight/cis people as the irredeemable abusers they are
If a sitting president threatens to hold government employees hostage and shut down the government for years because the other branches of government won’t give him absolute power, then he should be fucking impeached.
Because treating people fairly often means treating them differently.
This is something that I teach my students during the first week of school and they understand it. Eight year olds can understand this and all it costs is a box of band-aids.
I have each students pretend they got hurt and need a band-aid. Children love band-aids. I ask the first one where they are hurt. If he says his finger, I put the band-aid on his finger. Then I ask the second one where they are hurt. No matter what that child says, I put the band-aid on their finger exactly like the first child. I keep doing that through the whole class. No matter where they say their pretend injury is, I do the same thing I did with the first one.
After they all have band-aids in the same spot, I ask if that actually helped any of them other than the first child. I say, “Well, I helped all of you the same! You all have one band-aid!” And they’ll try to get me to understand that they were hurt somewhere else. I act like I’m just now understanding it. Then I explain, “There might be moments this year where some of you get different things because you need them differently, just like you needed a band-aid in a different spot.”
If at any time any of my students ask why one student has a different assignment, or gets taken out of the class for a subject, or gets another teacher to come in and help them throughout the year, I remind my students of the band-aids they got at the start of the school year and they stop complaining. That’s why eight year olds can understand equity.
The casting call for Artemis Fowl described him as a boy with a “fun-loving, open heart” so you knew before they even landed their eyes on the first mediocre white person the movie was irretrievably fucked
The casting call described him as what now
last i checked back in 6th grade, artemis was a fuckin dick of a child
“emotional intelligence” artemis fowl literally would rather die than express an emotion
im pretty sure he actually has on multiple occassions
im reblogging this again because i just remembered that artemis fowl hates being a Human Being With Feelings so much that he emotionally and mentally devastated *several* psychologists so badly that they gave up the profession, just because he didn’t want to admit that his father being declared dead and his mother falling into severe untreated mental illness such that she couldn’t recognize him on most days might, maybe, have upset him a little.
oh is that who they cast as holly
im bummed out now
any hope i had for this movie is gone now.
It was fucked from conception. They get rid of the actual black characters like Holly and Root, and change the Eurasian, Domovoi Butler, into a black man to seem more woke.
If they just stuck with the original text, everything would have been peachy. They’re being less diverse by pretending to be more diverse
