lol, this probably isn't a good time to admit that I have the racebending community on my f-list and have been talking about the movie and the production team along with other race and feminist issues on my facebook and in my journal in deviantart for the past month.
Yeah, I cope with grief in a weird way. But hey, I'm almost back to normal, a lot of thanks goes to my rage at the production team of the film. ^^;
I've been following the progress on this movie since 2008, but it wasn't until some discussions regarding minorities (transvestites specifically) on Scans_Daily a few months ago, that I became aware of a lot of things regarding debating minority issues. Then my dad died and well, I lost interest in pretty much everything. However, right before my dad died, I had added the racebending community to my f-list here on LJ. (But being busy I missed a lot of updates).
Afterwards, I returned to LJ to start writing again in order to cope. But went through a period of ennui after my last entry....until I started reading my f-list and rediscovered the racebending community. For the first time in a while, I got to feel something: ANGER. It was like waking up. I started talking animatedly to my coworkers and friends. When people would express their disbelief at the production team in sarcastic witty comments, I laughed for the first time. I met people who experienced the same things I did when I was a kid...how we always wanted a hero on tv or in cartoons that looked like us. So yeah, I threw myself into the boycott and kept up with it on facebook, at work, and in my journal on deviantart.com.
Was I self-righteous? I hope I wasn't. I just felt useful and connected to people. I'm glad I caught this here today before posting. Er, well, I had planned to write an updated entry...but that didn't work out too well tonight anyways. Either way, i don't want to piss you off, so thanks for the heads up. When i feel good enough to write that updated entry, I'll post it after you see the movie or put it on a customs f-list so you won't see it. I'm sorry the wank has gotten to the point it has. :(
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Yeah, I cope with grief in a weird way. But hey, I'm almost back to normal, a lot of thanks goes to my rage at the production team of the film. ^^;
I've been following the progress on this movie since 2008, but it wasn't until some discussions regarding minorities (transvestites specifically) on Scans_Daily a few months ago, that I became aware of a lot of things regarding debating minority issues. Then my dad died and well, I lost interest in pretty much everything. However, right before my dad died, I had added the racebending community to my f-list here on LJ. (But being busy I missed a lot of updates).
Afterwards, I returned to LJ to start writing again in order to cope. But went through a period of ennui after my last entry....until I started reading my f-list and rediscovered the racebending community. For the first time in a while, I got to feel something: ANGER. It was like waking up. I started talking animatedly to my coworkers and friends. When people would express their disbelief at the production team in sarcastic witty comments, I laughed for the first time. I met people who experienced the same things I did when I was a kid...how we always wanted a hero on tv or in cartoons that looked like us. So yeah, I threw myself into the boycott and kept up with it on facebook, at work, and in my journal on deviantart.com.
Was I self-righteous? I hope I wasn't. I just felt useful and connected to people. I'm glad I caught this here today before posting. Er, well, I had planned to write an updated entry...but that didn't work out too well tonight anyways. Either way, i don't want to piss you off, so thanks for the heads up. When i feel good enough to write that updated entry, I'll post it after you see the movie or put it on a customs f-list so you won't see it. I'm sorry the wank has gotten to the point it has. :(