10 Years Since Tropes vs. Women

[JuliusHackebeil]

The Ariel discussion is interesting and I happen to also have an opinion about that:

I don't like the change. Not because I don't like black people. But because it is such clear pandering. It gets an eye-roll out of me, but nothing more. I wont watch it, because most if not all the Disney remakes are horrible. So far so good.

What I hate is selectiv outrage. The hypocracy is quite nasty. Because it would be a huge surprise to me if a big company dared to whitewash a character. -See, there is even a derogatory term for changing some charakter's race to be white. Imagine the shitstorm if a company made Shaft, Black Panther, Blade, or even historical figures white. They could never. And I get that these companies have first and foremost financial interests that they have to protect. So I get why such changes would never be made by them. And that is alright.
But I do have a big problem with peoples responses and attitudes: "Changing Ariel from white to black is fine and should be fine. But changing Melcolm X (a real person, I know, but again, it worked fine the other way around) or even something obscure like The Nutty Professor (Eddy Murphy) to being white, is almost equivalent to a hate crime."

There are quite funny memes about this sorry state of affairs. I recommend to google "polar bears by Netflix", or "Rosa Parks by Netflix".

In conclusion: if a change from white to anything is generally accepted (I know, some do not) but a change from anything to white could never even be done, something is wrong.

-A good counter example to this would be the change in Dr Strange's teacher from being tibetan to being celtic (white). But I think this was more so because of China and Tibet. And the outrage was not as strong because they changed a man to a woman. That might have canceled it out a bit.