Brandon Lee: The reason why babygoths start out wearing their makeup Crow-style.
Why the studios should stop insisting on a white male lead for the Crow film reboot.
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The Crow Does Not Only Bring Back Cishet White Men
This is why I scoff whenever I hear somebody crying about all of the “progress” we’ve made. I look at the 80’s and 90’s at even their cheesiest, afterschool special moments and can’t help but feel that we’ve only backtracked from there.
I completely agree with that. Probably because that was before the whole “post-racial” thing happened and “you can’t have diversity for diversity’s sake because that’s just politically correct censorship” or something.
I don’t think we’ve made much progress – but I wouldn’t say we’ve backtracked from the 80s and 90 – there was a horrendous amount of erasure even above and beyond what we have now. Stereotypes then and now abounded
Even the 90’s had more representation than now. They’ve definitely backtracked since then.
I agree with what Neo-Prodigy usually says on the subject. In the mainstream, there is less representation but the Internet also opened up a lot of venues for more diverse content.
I think it depends a lot on the marginalisation in question, some have moved back, others we see more of. I also think nostalgia can skew things a lot
True that. I was thinking in terms of race.