whatever, dudes!!

Jan. 23, 2012 at 9:22pm with 2,293 notes

Reblogged from strangeandamazing

wildyoungmind:

somerset:

so-treu:

larepublicadedet:

newsweek:

Amen, Charlize.

If folk watch the video - Viola Davis’ point was not about being hot or not, was not about comparing her looks to Halle Berry. It was about (as she said if Theron hadn’t have interrupted her and someone making this into a .gif) that she understands the identity standards that Hollywood commodifies for particular roles and reproduce then disseminate to the masses. Regardless of Theron or me or anybody thinking that Viola Davis is the biznez, the structure couldn’t give two warm damns about what we think. Like Clooney said in the video, Hollywood uses very simple ways to decide what the audience does/doesn’t want … of course all of this is a microcosm for how the larger society actually work - and in that there’s a system, a hierarchy, racism, colorism, classism, intellectual elitism, etc. an exclusion based on who is in charge & who runs the business. Those ppl look more like Theron than Berry or Davis, and they look especially like the majority of folk sitting in the room in that clip - white males.

yeah, way to miss the point, newsweek. as usual.

I know this is already tumblr famous and everyone is like OMG I LOVE CHARLIZE THERON FOR TELLING THE DARK BLACK LADY SHE’S PRETTY TOO. All I saw was a thin, attractive white lady who is where she is because she is thin and attractive completely not getting the point a black lady was making about her own authentic experience and redirecting the whole conversation and making it about herself. And look she succeeded, it’s all “Amen Charlize” instead of “Amen Viola.”

Reblog for the comments, if Charlize Theron would have stopped interrupting (her and Clooney should be together, interrupting is their thing) then people would have understood that it wasn’t Viola’s appearance(beautiful by the way) she was talking about, but the lack of roles that Black women have no matter what they look like.

Once again, people don’t seem to get that it’s not approval or validation that marginalized people need, it’s the space to speak and be heard—not talked over, spoken for, or patted on the head.