OH MY GOD PEOPLE...I just read the article on Jezebel about people being appalled that a black girl was cast as Rue.
I mean, I can't even...
/hates peoples
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Volans - Mar 26, 2012 7:48:58 am PDT #19030 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Hil R. - Mar 26, 2012 7:51:58 am PDT #19031 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OH MY GOD PEOPLE...I just read the article on Jezebel about people being appalled that a black girl was cast as Rue.
Wait, what? I thought the book mentioned her "brown skin" a lot, which, from the point of view of someone like Katniss with "olive skin," would seem to pretty clearly mean black.
Jesse - Mar 26, 2012 7:52:59 am PDT #19032 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, what? She's pretty clearly written as black, as far as I remember.
sj - Mar 26, 2012 7:58:48 am PDT #19033 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The teenage girls that were at my showing were scary. There was lots of whistling and giggling at inappropriate times. Like the shot just after games start where they pan over all the kids that already died? There was a group in the back that was laughing and clapping.
Volans - Mar 26, 2012 7:59:51 am PDT #19034 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Exactly. And it's part of the whole socio-political-economic description of Panem; she and Thresh are from what's now the South, and it's been returned to black people working the fields.
But apparently many readers pictured her as JonBenet, and "her death didn't mean as much" if she's black. [link]
Amy - Mar 26, 2012 8:00:12 am PDT #19035 of 30000
Because books.
I just read the Jezebel piece, too. I want to be sick. I didn't think I could be more appalled at Twitter than after the Grammys with the Rihanna/Chris Brown stuff, but I was wrong.
Hil R. - Mar 26, 2012 8:00:43 am PDT #19036 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
(I mention the "from the point of view of someone with olive skin" part because I remember the character of Shirley in the last few Anne of Green Gables books, who is consistently described as "the little brown boy" and having "brown skin," but since this is within the context of a family where half the people have red hair and freckles and most of the rest are described as having black hair and ivory skin, I figure that, in that context, "brown skin" just means a darkish white kid who tans rather than burns in the sun. But when Katniss is describing herself as having olive skin, and Rue and Thresh are definitely described as darker than her, that doesn't leave much room for Rue and Thresh to just be darkish white people.)
Polter-Cow - Mar 26, 2012 8:09:37 am PDT #19037 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Personally, I completely missed that Rue and Thresh were black in the book, but I also thought Scout was a boy for a quarter of To Kill a Mockingbird and black for half of it, so I don't pick up on physical descriptions well.
sj - Mar 26, 2012 8:12:32 am PDT #19038 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
That Jezebel article makes me sick.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 26, 2012 8:13:27 am PDT #19039 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
>but I also thought Scout was a boy for a quarter of To Kill a Mockingbird and black for half of it, so I don't pick up on physical descriptions well.
Hee!
It took me a chapter to pick up that Buck in The Call of the Wild was a dog because I misread something.