Feminist Pixar

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The Sailor Punkz

fuck yes ilu ryan

Ahhhh!!!

dying of love

I’d pay good money for the Sailor Moon reboot to be like this.

2:09pm || July 24 2012 || 17,862 notes

#this isn't pixar but you should see it anyway #sailor moon

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."

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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (via riverran)

#mary shelley #this quote though #it’s all kinds of wonderful #hey remember that time one asswipe was like you have 30 seconds to name something invented by a woman… #…and Mary was like SCIENCE FICTION MOTHERFUCKERS #that was awesome #thanks Mary Shelley (via snappily)

And the next time someone starts claiming that teenage girls have ruined the horror genre with romance or whatever you can be like, hey dicksmack, teenage girls and romance built your genre so sit the fuck down.

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compulsive auto reblog

i want this tattooed on me at some point

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Mary Shelley fucking invented your favourite genre motherfuckers. You owe her Kirk and Vader and every goddamned Joss has ever done that’s made you cream your pants. Created when she was a teenager cause, hey, that’s how she rolled. She took love and showed it as the powerful, terrifying, all-encompassing, ruthless, wrathful thing it is.

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(Source: thelifeguardlibrarian)

5:42pm || July 21 2012 || 48,729 notes

#this post was so good I had to reblog it #excellent quotes from excellent people

Merida’s face is the most perfect thing for this.

5:55am || July 20 2012 || 179 notes

geekquality:

Latino Audiences, Hollywood, and Pixar’s Día de los Muertos Movie
We have yet another new guest contributor! Say hello to Jazmine, who shares her thoughts on Latino presence in Hollywood, inspired by the recent announcement of Pixar planning the Día de los Muertos movie. Read her post on our site and share your thoughts on the industry trends, diversity in film, and your feelings on Pixar’s latest project!

5:43am || July 20 2012 || 36 notes

#fempix's recommended reading

Don’t know how I feel about Pixar doing a Dia De Los Muertos film?

rocknrosa:

jhenne-bean:

INTRIGUED, YET WARY, I THINK.

Let’s hope for proper representation!

I don’t think you guys realize what a big deal this is. Pixar has never had a PoC as a main character. And this might be the first big step into more diversity in their films.

This isn’t a confirmed movie yet, according to this article, because he’s still got to pitch it to the Panel of White Dudes that is Pixar’s “brain trust”, but I saw other, later sources saying it was definitely lined up for 2015. But this could be a huge thing for Pixar, if they do it right, and I’d be interested to see what kind of plot they line up! Since it looks like they’re marketing at families in Mexico or Latin America, from what I read, maybe they’ll be extra careful with the cultural significance of Día de los Muertos.

3:38am || July 20 2012 || 508 notes

#fempix's recommended reading #fempix; pixar

Also, hello new followers! I have a standing invitation for you to send me things to review, particularly things that are animated. I’m currently with very limited internet bandwith, so I’ve been watching a lot of television. Some half-hearted reviews on that might pop up.

Other than that, I’m going to go see Brave for the… third time soon, and The Dark Night Rises after that. So look for reviews on both of those things! Disclaimer: I’m not a Batman fan, particularly, so if I get anything wrong about canons and timelines, feel free to correct me.

3:59pm || July 19 2012 || 0 notes

Why Skin Color of Fictional Characters Is Important

feministdisney:

black-ink-on-pink:

Okay. I’m going on another rant here and forgive me, but I saw something that just irks me so, and I’m feeling the need to grab people and shake them and beg them to just understand please.

So I’m reading various things on tumblr, related to Legend of Korra, the portrayal and representation of dark-skinned characters in fiction, and the question that comes around is: Why is this even important?

Let me answer that for you.

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3:51pm || July 19 2012 || 2,866 notes

#fempix's recommended reading

Anonymous said: I'm a black girl. I was about 12 or 13 when The Incredibles came out and I remember even at that time I never did find the "Where's my super suit!?" scene to be funny. Not because it /offended/ me per se, but because it felt more like what white people *think* black couples sound like when they are arguing. That scene would have been much funnier if the lines and delivery actually reflected black culture in a relatable way, but to this day it just makes me wince at how awkward it is. >_o

Definitely this, and it’s always caught me as strange that Frozone’s wife was never on screen. What purpose was it supposed to serve, in particular - was it pandering to the ‘nagging wife who yells a lot’ stereotype? All it ended up doing was cutting a black woman out of a movie where she could’ve been present and actually had a reasonable perspective or important role as the non-super wife of a superhero, and her off-screen relegation is really unfortunate. That’s a perspective The Incredibles really could have used! For all its social commentary on superheroism, they didn’t have that perspective, and it would have made the movie so much better.

That’s definitely one of the most awkward arguments I’ve ever seen, though, I can agree with that. It felt more ripped out of a sitcom than the rest of the movie altogether.

3:46pm || July 19 2012 || 0 notes

#answerin' people's questions #fempix; pixar

Dear everyone who’s making the ‘Brave has talking bears, there’s nothing REALLY historical about it’ argument:
I’m sure you’ve seen this post. It’s really something to look at this, and look at the contrasting personalities of Queen Elinor and Lady Macbeth, another fictional queen of Scotland, versus how Merida perceives her mother as being. Lady Macbeth is closed-off, doesn’t nurture her son, and has a drive for power and to be the best. That’s exactly how Merida perceives her mother as being, at least in the beginning: she thinks her mother doesn’t care about her, and only cares about power and making sure Merida doesn’t fail and make the family look bad. When she becomes a bear, the dress is gone, and it doesn’t come back. Merida starts looking at her mother entirely differently.
The fact they put years into this production (with an animator wholly focused on Merida’s hair for those years) and managed to infuse that level of symbolism and that particular homage to another ambitious queen, not to mention the planning that went into making that tiny kingdom look and feel real (dresses, weapons, names, etc, all of which would have required research into the time period, and they probably met with scholars and academics at one point) but never came across anything about the Moors or the various other PoC groups in that time period at all?
Frankly, to say Pixar doesn’t care about historical accuracy isn’t just a thinly veiled excuse to get away with no non-white people being okay in your book, it’s also a slight at Pixar, the company you’re trying to defend. Pixar spent years on Brave. They travelled to Scotland two or three times to get a feel for the culture, and I seem to recall that the music director made four+ trips. They used instruments that I definitely recognized and appreciated for being at least mildly authentic. It’s even evident in the designs Merida carved into her bow.
Pixar put work into this movie. They’ve been working on it since 2006, nearly 2005! To say they didn’t try as hard as they possibly could (sans racial accuracy) to get the ‘feel’ of Scotland at the time right is probably something only a viewer could say, and probably something Pixar would be incredibly frustrated and upset by. Particularly the ones on the animation, music, and design teams.
With all this? With all of Pixar’s willingness to go the extra mile with their design choices? Yeah, I’m upset that everyone was white. Why shouldn’t I be? Because Pixar obviously doesn’t care about historical accuracy? This isn’t Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. This is a movie that people honed meticulously and made sure all the details - in everything from landscape to food - were correct. Pixar’s no slouch, and I’m not going to treat them like they are! Bears or no bears, it’s still a movie with people from a specific time period, so why the hell should I be okay with the fact that every single one is white when that so clearly wasn’t always the case?
Pixar’s better than that, so I’m going to hold them to that standard.

3:31pm || July 19 2012 || 17 notes

About that Laci Green

feministdisney:

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whoorderedpizza submitted:

http://whoorderedpizza.tumblr.com/post/25538166892/youre-kidding

I am trans (and apparently I should be toned down and not upset)

“Allow people to make mistakes”
When you are in an influential position of being an educator (a self-proclaimed educator, no less), you shouldn’t be making “mistakes” like that. And in this particular circumstance, a tough mistake to even make in the first place, that trans people exist at all. You need to do your own damn research and not expect to have trans people politely pull you aside and educate you every time you do it. I get the feeling that the same cis women continue to make the same “mistakes” because they want to try to monopolize misogyny as being solely directed towards them - always white, this is what feminism has always been.

hey yall, to the best of my understanding laci green is a really outspoken trans* ally and has been pretty open and educational about the matter. i don’t know what the issue was in the first place, and i’m not trying to censor or anything, but i’m willing to guess it was a genuine, honest mistake.

people say and do stupid shit as they learn, and continued learning is a huge part of being an educator.

that being said, “stop being angry at me” isn’t really the message you want to convey for 70% of your apology.

Nope

This is why I often feel conflicted about Laci Green. I think as a sort of gateway person she’s useful (in that she brings into a lot of movements people who otherwise wouldn’t be aware of them, because she has popular youtube videos et cetera. A lot of it may seem redundant to people who have been around this type of discussion for a while but really in a lot of cases it’s not for you if you’ve been around it for a while. Beginners need a place to start).

But sometimes I feel like she really doesn’t… get… the point of tumblr and safe spaces and stuff like that. Like yeah, sometimes the “social justice league” on tumblr gets out of hand. But this really wasn’t one of those cases- it was a fair reply to a pretty big mistake on a blog that, as someone already pointed out, shouldn’t be making such a mistake. And yeah sometimes mistakes happen anyway but it seems condescending to start your message with “Whoa Tiger” when you know someone is pissed off at a mistake you made- it’s the type of thing we say to 9 year olds when they need to lay off the sugar. It twists things around to make everyone else seem like they’re overreacting and irrational when you’re supposed to be the ally who, in this situation, fucked up. Not them.

And there’s also the implication at the end that if we don’t treat her and other people who say similar big mistakes with kid gloves and make sure that all our responses to them are polite and laced with sweetness and if we have the audacity to sarcastically say “great job” at the end, then “things will never change in society”

yeaaah okay then

I’m definitely not a fan of Laci’s for a number of reasons, but my entire dash last night was a discussion of this from numerous blogs so I just shut my computer off and went to sleep. If anyone hasn’t seen this yet, this is some commentary on the discussion.

11:12am || July 12 2012 || 191 notes

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