#ItWasADifferentTime BeBetter

[sakuramoonflower]

*shrugs* You ever watch Good Morning, Vietnam or Mrs. Doubt fire? Super-offensive through a 2019 lens. :/ It was a less enlightened time, just like with all of the "classics," like Cat On A Hot Tin Roof or To Kill A Mockingbird. #LetItGo Just never play these movies for your kids, if that's how you feel about it.

I would ask that people my age and up remember: just because Robin Williams performed jokes in movies that could be seen today as transphobic, misogynistic, racist, or homophobic, it doesn't mean that he was any of those things. The same goes for sweet Jim Carey today. Look for their actions outside of their movies to define who they were. Robin Williams was notoriously humanist, and a kind person. The same goes for Jim Carey. You know who the real assholes are outside of their movie roles? Steven Segal and Harrison Ford, the latter of which has been a confirmed racist and misogynist. No wonder few of his costars liked the douche. And yet, these two guys still have fans.

I would like to add: a LOT of movies that came out and have come out before then and since then have super offensive themes and moments, like how throughout the nineties, the only 'Hispanic' representation in movies consisted literally of gangsters. The only film in the nineties that didn't feature this explicit, tacit, monochromatic representation was Selena.

I know the phrase "It was a different time" seems tired and overused. It seriously was. And despite these negative, pervasive stereotypes being used and ground into the audience throughout this problematic decade, at LEAST there was representation. At LEAST. Because starting around 2000, that started to dwindle to practically zero. Yes, we had Proud Family as a lovely cartoon in the early 2000's. Tell me how long that lasted? Then we had That's So Raven and Cory In The House. Tell me how long those lasted? And aside from the show with Zendaya, and Victorious, how many shows featured prominent lead characters of visible color who weren't a monochrome stereotype? Because this problem keeps persisting, and it hasn't gotten much better, despite how, say, #JoeRogan may color it. Some things have gotten better, yes. More consideration is put into side characters of color. Alternately, some things have gotten worse. More main characters of color have been created, but most of them are monochrome, because studios figured since they already went for the gimmick once, they better not overdo it. That’s to say, since they already have a lead character of color, that’s playing with fire enough and they better not overdo it by giving this character relateable thoughts or feelings. The same overwhelmingly goes for female main characters. Even though audiences have displayed that they love a well-made film with representation that makes sense by paying to see it in droves, Hollywood is just not getting the fucking picture, for pun's sakes.