Dude, the last dude. Chill the fuck out.If we are going to be specific, then nothing in the movie is! Let’s fix it all that and make it into a documentary which some children won’t want to watch.
And besides can’t we not forget that THEY HAVE LIVED IN A CAVE AND ONLY CAME OUT FOR HUNTING/SCAVENGE? They seem not to come out that long so you can’t get that tan or darker skin if you are on the sun for a short amount of time. I was a darker skin tone but due to not be that much outside as I used to I’m a lighter color.
Serious the kids could give two shits about the color of the character. I’m serious and don’t pull the offensive to others and harm. I say this because I’m Mexican and I can name you more than 20 stereotypes about Mexico that are not the least accurate, not even close. Serious this would send my grandma in a rage but do we complain? No, we laugh at it because this is aimed a KIDS.
And since we are on films not being that accurate. Then Dinosaurs no one should be able to talk. In Rango that fucking snake should’ve eaten everyone. In Bugs the ants would’ve taken all those grasshoppers apart.
Seriously chill, why suck out the fun out of everything?
The point is not whether the Croods is accurate or not. I have absolutely no fucks to give about how accurate to history this movie is.
The point is the self-serving way in which the “accuracy” argument is deployed in these discussions.We can’t have brown people in Brave because heavens no it wouldn’t be accurate, but make a movie about pale ginger cavepeople in a sub-fucking-tropical habitat? Well, in that case, waaah if you want accuracy watch a documentary!1
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And the massively whitewashed media, of which this is a part, is demonstrably harmful to people, and especially to children, which is why we should care. Even if kids don’t consciously care, or are unable to articulate the effect of never seeing themselves reflected in the cultural narrative, that doesn’t mean the message isn’t getting through loud and clear, to PoC and white children alike.I’m happy you fancy yourself to be so impervious, but your dubious anecdata don’t really stand up to the results, over decades of research into institutional prejudices and the real effects that media has on children’s feelings of self worth.
I’d like to ask you to take a moment to reflect on the fact that you can name so many negative stereotypes about a group you belong to. Honestly, congrats on not being effected by it, as you say, but let’s just consider the fact that society has so many negative stereotypes about your group in the first place. And you’ve picked them up. Presumably, without going out of your way to encounter them.
How many negative stereotypes about white people in general do you suppose the typical white person can pull off the top of their head?
So yeah, this is important, and talking about it is important because whitewashing causes real harm to real people.
(Source: adultsupervisionpls)
