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By: Roxy

Roxy — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:24:46 +0000

Additionally, it’s not that AS is focusing on some minuscule part of a celebrity’s life; they’re drawing attention to the larger issues that we face.

By: taylor

taylor — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:33:54 +0000

it’s like going green! just different but also progressive!? i think riese has an auto tumblr. and i have a long lost one somewheres!

By: Lez-behonest

Lez-behonest — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:39:12 +0000

urban sapphic i just went on your site and its mostly about celebs…what the hell are you talking about #NEXT

i actually appreciated this post about brittnay murphy she was such an amazing actress and she really owned each roled played, she wasn’t just some regular actress

Avatar is becoming a must see for me, i’m honestly sick of seeing “the white hero” “the white jesus” the “white santa claus” from now on i want all heroes, and saviors to be “green”

I do not want them to be black,white or any other color I want them to be green…then no one could say anything about it being racist and no dumb ass director could really make his hero out to be white or black…i bet you it would save a lot of drama, debates, and headaches for everyone

Anyway, does anyone on here have a tumblr im so addicted to it lol follow me http://www.alipstickdiary.tumblr.com

By: Lez-behonest

Lez-behonest — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:59:23 +0000

whatttttt im reading your comments and im soo confused lol so im going to read the entire post all over and then the comments lol

By: MsNJS

MsNJS — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:37:34 +0000

I meant this site and the author of that article. She is white? Great. That makes this article even better!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:19:45 +0000

AGREE

By: riese

riese — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:53:11 +0000

By “this site” do you mean i09 or autostraddle? When you refer to the writer’s ethnicity do you mean James Cameron or the writer of the article on i09? The i09 writer is a white lesbian who’s actually written a book about Race & Class in America … I got the impression from reading the article that this is something she’s always noticed but felt it was relevant to bring up now as everyone is celebrating how great Avatar is.

She says at the end: Whites need to stop remaking the white guilt story, which is a sneaky way of turning every story about people of color into a story about being white. Speaking as a white person, I don’t need to hear more about my own racial experience.

The debate in the comments over at i09 is pretty interesting.

By: Dagra Dai

Dagra Dai — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:55:52 +0000

Urban Sapphic, that was really unnecessary. If you had read the earlier post about Brittany Murphy, the team wrote,

“We generally don’t dedicate entire posts to the death of an actress or actor, because it’s problematic to us that Americans feel more emotionally affected by the death of an actor/actress they only knew via movie roles and subsequent interviews and likely never met in real life than they are by say, world hunger, or gay genocide in Uganda.”

They admitted that they don’t indulge in the deaths of celebrities. They just happen to respect and admire Brittany Murphy. You don’t need to make blunt accusations.

By: taylor

taylor — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:35:22 +0000

“This is a classic scenario you’ve seen in non-scifi epics from Dances With Wolves to The Last Samurai, where a white guy manages to get himself accepted into a closed society of people of color and eventually becomes its most awesome member”

this is the most hilarious way i’ve seen this put.

that author makes a lot of good points…
“Whites need to stop remaking the white guilt story, which is a sneaky way of turning every story about people of color into a story about being white. Speaking as a white person, I don’t need to hear more about my own racial experience. I’d like to watch some movies about people of color (ahem, aliens), from the perspective of that group, without injecting a random white (erm, human) character to explain everything to me.”

NOW I ACTUALLY WANT TO SEE AVATAR FINALLY i guess i should anyway.

By: MsNJS

MsNJS — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:31:57 +0000

I know this site is majority Caucasian writers/readers, but I have to agree with that statement about Avatar. The white man has ALWAYS painted him self as the savior, hell he put Jesus in his image even though he COULD NOT have been white. I wonder what the writers ethnicity is because if he wasn’t white I need to ask what took him so long in realizing this sad phenomenon?

By: riese

riese — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:37:57 +0000

WHOA WHOA WHOA who said we were making a living doing this?

By: Urban Sapphic

Urban Sapphic — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:24:28 +0000

“it seems awfully arbitrary that culture has chosen actors & actresses to serve as common reference points and symbolic entities worthy of our endless fascination & subsequent projection, it is what it is.”

What “It” is, is a business of which you are a prime contributor. It’s NOT ARBITRARY WHEN Virtually EVERY lesbian oriented and non lesbian oriented media website has reported on Murphy’s death. This is why I did not report the death on my media website.
You “guys” make a living hyping celebrities incessantly only to shrug off your involvement by claiming some ethereal omnipresent force is forcing “society” to focus on celebrities. Give me a break and take responsibility.