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1. Socketwench (socketwench@hackers.town)'s status on Monday, 06-Jun-2022 23:17:45 UTC Socketwench

   Since we're doing this...

   I took an entire semester of Native Americans In The Cinema, lead by a surly Lakota guy.

   I watched an *astonishingly* huge amount of bad films featuring Native Americans and their cinematic tropes in that class. Literally, every class was watch a film, write a paper on it.

   I've also watched a *huge* amount of Sci-Fi. I know that aliens are often used as stand-ins for non-white peoples all the time as pop-SF is often aimed only at white people.

   So, yes, Avatar was pretty.

   It had some great CGI for the time.

   You're allowed to enjoy it.

   But I can still hear my anthropology professor yelling at the screen each time I watch it.

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   • calcifer@hackers.town's status on Monday, 06-Jun-2022 23:17:58 UTC calcifer

     in reply to

     @socketwench this this this. Same thing (but at least more subtly—though to be fair that's a very low bar) for Fern Gully; fairies and the like as stand-ins for indigenous cultures is also a very old trope

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   • Cy (cy@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 06-Jun-2022 23:18:07 UTC Cy

     in reply to

     @socketwench
     > be me
     > friend finally convinces me to watch "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron"
     >20s in
     "ARE YOU SERIOUS HORSES WERE IMPORTED BY THE EUROPEANS THEY'RE AS MUCH GODDAMN COLONISTS AS THE COWBOYS FFFFF"

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