So when The Oscars gonna bite MTV’s shit and add ‘Best Kiss’ LOL?
I mean if The Oscars are gonna jump the shark and start giving out a consolation prize that is the equivalent of that wack ass “Urban Pop” category from The Grammys, y’all might as well go all in 🤷🏾♀️
Personally this was one of my faves 😂
Still. Despite how tickled I am by this ploy to get people to watch a cermony that is historically about stroking the egos & kissing arses of the #FFFFFF crowd, I abhor this new category because it means the Acacemy is implicitly saying that popular movies cannot also be good.
It also doesn’t address the institutional-wide problem that ceremonies like The Oscars and The Golden Globes and etc have with genre films that mop the floor with their auTEUR faves commercially and critically.
So excuse me if I don’t take kindly to your Runner’s Up Oscar™️ LOL
I also think it’s suspect as HELL that it is well-documented that Disney is finna launch a wall-to-wall Oscar’s campaign for #BlackPanther and then y’all suddenly wanna add a “Popular Movie” category.
Mad suspect.
But nothing surprises me when this is the same biz that thought that Get Out was a “comedy”, that Logan was only good enough for an Adapted Screenplay nod, & didn’t think to nominate Thor: Ragnarok for any special effects awards even though it pioneered new filming techniques.
I’m just tired of niggas moving the goalposts. Truly.
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Besides the “holiday” being an affront to our Indigenous siblings, it is also in line with America’s ever-present tradition of simultaneously celebrating White mediocrity and depravity and tbh, return to sender please 😐
In addition to this, if you *HAVE* to celebrate a “Christopher” today, there are others available, who aren’t directionally-challenged nincompoops.
Hi. It’s true that America’s White supremacist “education” (re: propoganda) system purposely obscures & omits all kinds of Black stories. AND it’s true that the technology/social media boom at the turn of this millenia has given us access to an unprecedented amount of information
~Both things~ can be true. Because nuance lol
So I think it’s unfair to be all like “omg stop dragging him” when all folx are really doing is telling him to open a book, Google something, or leave his bubble to learn something new. I don’t think that’s an unfair thing to ask of someone who professes to know better?
I hate how this question is a thing too (i.e misogynoir & colorism) but the older I get, the more I realize that it’s not because the asker is seeking validation (eff y’all, BW are dope), but more so because bigotry in dating is an immense time waster & who got time to waste?
Listening to Dawson yesterday remembering some things that Toni Morrison has explained about racial trauma/race-specific gaslighting, I am reminded that the most violent thing about racism is not just the actual violence but the joy & the *time* that it steals away from us.
And BW in these asking scenarios (even when it comes to BM) find ourselves asking this question because we already have 502052950204 things trying to tug at our very precious & not-infinite source of energy & we definitely do not want to & wasted time & affection to that list lol
As you are saying this, Debra, media outlets are still having a field day with male survivor Jimmy Bennett for even *daring* to come forward about being allegedly assaulted by Asia Argento.
What is with y’all and lying about the believability of male/non-women survivors? Like patriarchy doesn’t also chew them up and spit them out for being ~weak enough~ to be assaulted???? Hmm? What gives?
This ~superior victim~ thing that White women have going on is not the wave and it is precisely the thing that keeps undermining the efforts of #MeToo/#TimesUp and tbh, y’all need to let that shit go because if it that isn’t base narcissism, IDK what is.