#i'm mad i wasted a redbox credit on that dumb shit.

[princessnijireiki]

like just the level of selfish entitlement and UNgratitude… I'm actually really pissed. it's some mark suckerberg asking for donations shit. all these other performers— I'm not even gonna only say nonwhite performers, but all these women & girls in the world— who would die to be belle for a day. not even to get paid for it! because there are youtubers belting & cosplayers sewing themselves into corsets & memorizing choreography for FREE… for love of their craft… spending THEIR money to sort of close their eyes and do this for a day. people bussing tables & skipping meals & living off of cigarettes & diet soda until payday wishing for their big break. hoping and dreaming for it. (which, as a side note? is why for all I critique it, I will never be anti-hamilton. because for all its warts and issues and flaws, doors are NEVER opened for unknown actors of color the way they are for rich little white girls & boys. NEVER.) people would die for chances like that and many many many do. unknown & poor & brilliant & beautiful & undiscovered for decades… because if "the lion king" isn't touring this year & hollywood only wants more emma stone and cara delevigne, there is no vehicle to stardom. people die reaching for what has been handed to this girl on a platter, at her REQUEST— because apparently she was offered cinderella, and sent it back to the chef: not feminist enough. and then she raised hell & took creative control. just… took it. just like that. plucked it out of her bosses' hands, demanded script changes, glitter glued silk chiffon… and they let her. and then she's gonna turn around and REALLY say that's the best she could do? her best singing? her best acting? her best gown? her best work, worth her paycheck and all the EXPONENTIALLY INCREASED doors this kind of role can open? that's her best work. bullshit. bull fucking shit. it's repulsive. it's disgusting. it really is. and if anybody else less white than her pulled that shit, they'd be blacklisted on the spot. ON THE SPOT. contract terminated & no call-backs. …and she wants praise. she wants to be called progressive & well rounded & hold private screenings for gloria steinem & cry when people call her out for doing a topless photo after she preened about being oh-so-superior to Other Girls who did THAT sort of thing just a few years before. she wants our love & my loyalty as an audience for being a spoiled little shit who either can't or won't do the one job she's had for nearly two decades. she wants us to kiss her on the forehead and give her a gold star. ………bye felisha.