Diversity and Representation in Media

And what if there isn't a good point to do it?

Honestly, for me it's way more important for me to be comfortable both before and during the movie, which includes drinking lots of water and using the washroom when I have to. I'm sure I can figure out the two minutes I missed from context (although, I did run there and back when watching Spiderverse). Doesn't change the point about theatre accessibility though.

Awesome news about Boseman.

As the kids say, Lily Collins is now cancelled.

And I hope Freddy Mercury haunts Malek.

Edited by Hodor2 on May 7th 2019 at 5:47:09 AM

As if,that's a comment people will quickly forgot

edit:I wouldn't wish a spectre on anyone personally

Edited by Ultimatum on May 7th 2019 at 10:48:10 AM

Ghosts?

That's the excuse?

This is disgusting. She's acting like a fucking ghoul.

Googling it, apparently she's claimed ghost sightings in the past so this might be something she believes and not an extremely odd way to dismiss controversy...but either way, claiming to be able to speak for the wishes of victims of brutal murder because she saw them in her sleep is really not acceptable. How did she think this would go over?

Edited by IniuriaTalis on May 7th 2019 at 12:36:37 PM

> How did she think this would go over?

She's trying to promote the movie thus something saying some controversial words mean people will keep talking about her words and the movie will remain the topic for awhile,its why she got the role I imagine,she's says stupid shit that's basically free publicity for the film

Small correction: Yasuke was not the only non-Asian to become a samurai. He was, however, the very first Westerner to be given the honour.

Princess Weekes writes on how the Akira anime handles a mentally ill antagonist.

Interesting… I personally never thought of Tetsuo as "mentally ill", but I only saw the movie when I was too young to fully get it and I just recently started reading the manga, which is quite different… Maybe I should rewatch that movie.

Speaking of manga, I also recently read Kiryuu-sensei wa Ren'ai ga Wakaranai (Aromantic (Love) Story in France). And it might be the first time ever that I see a romcom where part of the happy ending is that the heroine doesn't fall in love and chooses not to marry. That made me wonder if there were other series or movies that tackled the subject of asexuality and aromanticism?

Edited by Lyendith on May 8th 2019 at 9:14:01 PM

So here's a video about Autism representation in the media:

uh ok

Summary,pretty please?

Speaking as an autistic person I would definitely say that in general most depictions in media are... Not great. Often well intentioned I grant, but still. I think part of it is that autistic people and "neuro-typicals" are wired differently mentally. A non autistic person can read about it, can understand it conceptually but literally cannot truly replicate the thought processes and emotional responses in the same way. It's NOT a better/worse deal. Just... Different.

Speaking of, I remember we had a conversation a while back about the lack of representation for autistic people of color. I stumbled across a film not too long ago, a 2012 piece called White Frog, that centers on an autistic Asian child as his family deals with the sudden death of his brother.

It does have its problems- in particular I had issue with how the parents' struggle to handle the lead's autism and his dead brother's homosexuality is resolved a little too easily in the climax- and I can't speak to how well it represented its Asian characters, but nevertheless I found it an enjoyable watch that was very sympathetic to the main character's autism (it also had a surprising amount of recognisable names- B.D. Wong, Harry Shum Jr., Joan Chen, Booboo Stewart, Kelly Hu, Tyler Posey, etc.)

From what I remember of the movie, Tetsuo was a bullied kid who had a complex about feeling inferior. Kaneda was a genuine friend but running with a gang was probably not the best environment for him.

Not to say the least about the experimentation done on him when he was captured. Coupled with the hallucinations he has afterwards and delusions of grandeur after finally having true undeniable power, Tetsuo is in a terrible head space, to say the least.

That kid was fucked. Part of the horror is seeing the child lose more and more of himself and at the very end desperately trying to get out of the hell he's in.

Pages back, I remember saying how it bothers me whenever that when they have an autistic character, they go full-blown autism (possibly taking cues from Rain Man). It's rare to show someone with autism that still acts fairly normal or independent (the movie "Snow Cake" came somewhat close).

A problem I had with "The Good Doctor"(is the still on? I don't have cable anymore) is when the protagonist, in one episode, gets called out for being thoughtless or selfish (bare in mind, the person doing the calling out knows full well, the other character is autistic). I'm fairly certain if one did that to an autistic person, they'd a) Not really understand what youre saying and ignore it. Or b) understand what you're saying, and feel like shit afterwards, and feel their autism is entirely their fault.

I read that on Fringe Jasika Nicole based her performance as Alternate Astrid on her own autistic sister.

While we're on the topic: what do fellow autistic people here think of Sheldon Cooper? I think he's a great character. Yeah, he's not exactly someone you'd hold up as a role model for autistic people, but I don't think the show's writers are trying to paint all autistic people with the same Jerkass brush.

Edited by MFLuder on May 8th 2019 at 6:04:36 AM

From my experience with people who are autistic, I've never seen Sheldon as possibly autistic.

Usually when an autistic person is told that what they did or said is wrong, or they've hurt someone's feelings, the autistic person in question either doesn't understand what they did, but makes a genuine effort to improve themselves, or they do get that they said something hurtful, and feels genuinely remorseful.

Sheldon rarely responds in that way. In fact my interpretation of Sheldon has always been that he knows full well when he's being a Jerkass, but does the whole "I can't tell when I'm being hurtful" because to him, it's a "get out of jail" card. I've encountered people like this, from coworkers, to managers, to my own father. Yet, if someone was ever rude or hurtful to them they'd know it. Sheldon himself falls into that category as well, in that he claims he can't tell when he's being a jerk, but he's usually able to tell when others are being a jerk to him.

Sheldon isn't autistic, nor have any kind of Ambiguous Disorder. he's just a Jerkass.

Sheldon just seems to totally lack empathy.

Can i just say that as a person who loves the hell out of villains, I kinda want more villains to have asperger's syndrome like I do.

I mention this because I know other people have a problem with mental illness being demonized in media.

He might be autistic AND an asshole. There have been folks who try to justify breaking rules and being a dick by blaming it on their AS in the Edit Banned Thread on this very site.

It’s kind of the problem with that, right? Can you make someone be a great villain with that? Is the villain villainous because of said condition? In spite of it? Or is it a minor facet of the character?

Because let’s be honest, for anyone who does have the same condition who’s okay with an evil portrayal, there will be another who would justifiably be angry or at best suspicious.

You don’t want the condition to be a source of demonization. And you don’t want it to be a trivial or insultingly insignificant part of their life.

I’m not on that spectrum and can only try to imagine that it sucks not seeing representation that’s either moral and or cool.

Like, I'm thinking of someone like Kingpin from Netflix's Daredevil. He honestly comes off like someone on the spectrum. But I loved it. He was an awesome villain who happened to (maybe) have the same thing I have.

I really dislike something like autism being portrayed as a good thing. In my experience it isn't. I'd most likely have an easier time of life if I didn't have asperger's.

It's a different condition, but I have a blind friend who really dislikes Daredevil because he doesn't think blindness is a source of strength. It's a disability to be overcome.

What makes Daredevil a not so great portrayal of blind people is that he's got superpowers that render the blindness less of an issue. Meaning he's not really a remotely realistic representation of actual blind people.

Edited by M84 on May 8th 2019 at 10:19:09 PM

Would you consider Dororo acceptable representation of disability?

I guess I wouldn’t think so because again, that man is explicitly supernatural