{"id":288,"date":"2017-03-03T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/?p=288"},"modified":"2024-02-13T20:20:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T04:20:16","slug":"seriously-seriously-calm-down-ffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/seriously-seriously-calm-down-ffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Calm Down, FFS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wp-1488552958693.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"wp-1488552958693\" src=\"http:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wp-1488552958693.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote data-secret=\"GI02ebYkvd\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/388801\/the-walking-dead-moonlight-poster\/\">&#8216;The Walking Dead&#8217; is under fire for whitewashing iconic &#8216;Moonlight&#8217; poster<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/388801\/the-walking-dead-moonlight-poster\/embed\/#?secret=GI02ebYkvd\" data-secret=\"GI02ebYkvd\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;&#8216;The Walking Dead&#8217; is under fire for whitewashing iconic &#8216;Moonlight&#8217; poster&#8221; &#8212; Fusion\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This baffles me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wp-1488569754075.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"wp-1488569754075\" src=\"http:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wp-1488569754075.png\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On some level I understand that the constant fighters for social justice out there see it as an affront to gay people, because Carl isn&#8217;t gay (though, has his sexuality even been addressed? No, it hasn&#8217;t, because it&#8217;s irrelevant to the story), and black people, because Carl is a pasty white kid.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s dissect this. Let&#8217;s name all the episode one characters who are still there at the start of the current season: Carl, Rick, Carol, Morgan, and Daryl (technically not in ep 1, but let&#8217;s not be pedantic; he was part of the gang). I&#8217;m not including Glenn, because&#8230;you know&#8230; That whole Negan thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rick has developed greatly as a character, but, visually, aside from weight-loss, beard-growth, and being grimy (very puns. much Lol. such funny. wow), not much has changed. Sure, if they&#8217;d hacked off his arm instead of Merle&#8217;s, like they should have, he would have a bigger difference. But that&#8217;s not a facial change. And what would the single-word caption be? Cripple? Rude. Armless? Inaccurate. Amputee? Not in photo. Widower? Who isn&#8217;t in the series? So, Rick is a poor choice.<\/p>\n<p>Carol? Again, fantastic character development. Again, very little physical change. She&#8217;s looked the same age, and had the same short hair since day one. Would make a blah poster..<\/p>\n<p>Morgan? He disappeared for half the series, so we don&#8217;t know most of his story. And, again, looks the same aside from dust and diet.<\/p>\n<p>Daryl? Character development? Yes. Physical appearance? The same as the other adults.<\/p>\n<p>Even if we pull from season two forward, it&#8217;s just dirt and diet, despite character development.<\/p>\n<p>Carl? He&#8217;s had a little less character development. By that I mean that he&#8217;s always been a bit of a bad ass. In season 1 he was little. But, book fans will note that he shot Shane in the head while they were still at the quarry. He&#8217;s been a ruthless, yet fair, little bad ass since day one. However, he went from an adorable, pudgey-faced little kidlet, to a squaking teenager, to a young adult with a clearly visible facial injury. Great poster material.<\/p>\n<p>The only character I can see these people not being all in a tizzy over would be Glenn, but would that be labeled as &#8220;yellow washing&#8221;? Also, I think the clean, to dirty, to a bloody-pile-of-parts might be a bit graphic for a poster.<\/p>\n<p>This also pisses me off because the show isn&#8217;t about race or whites VS the world. Perhaps we should look back and listen to Rick from season one when he says,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Look here, Merle. Things are different now. There are no niggers anymore. No dumb-as-shit, inbred white-trash fools either. Only dark meat and white meat. There&#8217;s us and the dead. We survive this by pulling together, not apart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does this sound like a show about inequality?<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there are several gay characters, and the producers haven&#8217;t been keeping them alive all special just to wave the &#8220;we like gays&#8221; flag. If you read the books, you&#8217;ll see that alternate relationships were <strong>briefly<\/strong> discussed.<\/p>\n<p>People on that show are just people.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen moonlight, which I&#8217;m sure will negate my opinion to many people (please note that I haven&#8217;t seen a single other one of the Academy nominated films either), but as I understand it, it&#8217;s about what the main character has to go through growing up as a gay, black kid. I have no idea if it&#8217;s based on a true story.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: the film is based off a play called <em>In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue<\/em>. If you&#8217;ve spent time in the woods, away from city lights, with white people, you&#8217;d know that white girls look blue too. As do Asians. And it&#8217;s not blue. It just seems blue compared to the warm light of incandescent bulbs. Do not get me started on white-point comparison. That&#8217;s a camera term, not a race one. (tangent: On that point, black people aren&#8217;t black, they&#8217;re brown. White people are also brown, just paler. It would be really cool though if we were actually pure black and white with beautiful yellow and red skinned individuals sprinkled throughout. I&#8217;d prefer black to white though, Just saying&#8230; )<\/p>\n<p>Now, if we all honestly want equality, we have to say that gay and black don&#8217;t matter, just as white and straight(?) don&#8217;t matter. People are people. Growing up is shitty. Growing up black and gay, likely fearing ridicule, and physical abuse from strangers, and possible friends or loved ones sounds hard.<\/p>\n<p>Know what else sounds hard? Growing up surrounded by zombies. Having your mother die. Having to murder a man you look up to. Seeing your friend become a zombie and subsequently die. Knowing that 90% of people you know were savagely killed and are now walking monsters or are just gone. Watching your father have a mental melt down. Knowing that, at any moment one, or many, other people in your close knit support system might disappear and meet a terrifying end. Knowing it could easily happen to you, regardless of what you look like or who you love.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds to me like they are both kids, who grew up in shitty situations, who somehow clawed through it, just to keep breathing for one more day.<\/p>\n<p>And, as for the final dig in that article about why they didn&#8217;t show the eye patch? Maybe because it&#8217;s on the wrong damned side? Did you want the poster backwards, so that Carl was declining in age? Did you want it flipped I the other side of his face? Come on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wp-1488571362622.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"wp-1488571362622\" src=\"http:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wp-1488571362622.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My qualm with the poster is the questionable blurring on the little Carl side. Where&#8217;s the pudgey cheek? And why is the word SO glowey. It looks weird.<\/p>\n<p>All in all though, I like the nod to the poster. I like the character choice. And I&#8217;m going to stop writing because I&#8217;ve got nothing else to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The Walking Dead&#8217; is under fire for whitewashing iconic &#8216;Moonlight&#8217; poster This baffles me&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/seriously-seriously-calm-down-ffs\/\">Read more<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,29],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-rant","tag-offtopic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalgraffiti.ca\/twitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}