Jeff Albertson
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So racist why is this John Cena white and not see through
Find me a cosplay where someone paints themselves dark to match a skin tone and doesn't get shit for it.
maybe im just being ignorant, i dont see how else to produce a costume for kids of this character without an elaborate removable tattoo kit or body paint. which would be a mess.
if the character were blue i would expect a blue suit. now if kids start painting their faces and hands brown to match the skin suit, i can see the problem.
being melanin rich myself i think it's cool brown characters are becoming known in children movies.
But wouldn't there still be complaints of cultural appropriation, like someone wearing a Native American outfit as a costume.
Absolutely disgusting. Disney is fucking gross and pathetic.
maybe im just being ignorant, i dont see how else to produce a costume for kids of this character without an elaborate removable tattoo kit or body paint. which would be a mess.
if the character were blue i would expect a blue suit. now if kids start painting their faces and hands brown to match the skin suit, i can see the problem.
being melanin rich myself i think it's cool brown characters are becoming known in children movies.
There's really no way around this. The design of the character is terrible to make a costume from. Suprised Disney didn't think up some contrived look for the character solely for the merchandising. Should've cut their losses and released some removable tattoos and been done with it because they're definitely going to have a controversy on their hands when kids actually dress up in that.
Tattoos are a huge part of Polynesian culture. It would be cultural appropriation to just sell the tattoos too.There's really no way around this. The design of the character is terrible to make a costume from. Suprised Disney didn't think up some contrived look for the character solely for the merchandising. Should've cut their losses and released some removable tattoos and been done with it because they're definitely going to have a controversy on their hands when kids actually dress up in that.
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So racist why is this John Cena white and not see through
Holy shit that is fucked up. What were they thinking approving that???
No they won't. Especially once the movie is a hit. Nobody will see it as making fun of their culture and will instead be proud that kids are excited to dress like their favorite character, which in turn engenders pride. This isn't a hulking fat suit designed to look like a caricature of an obese Polynesian person, this is a brave warrior god and nothing else.
Holy shit that is fucked up. What were they thinking approving that???
What? People moan that there are not enough ethnic characters represented in movies and then they moan that making merchandise of them is somehow racist.
What has the world come to, when people get offended for the fun of it. It's almost like they feel they earn some sort of kudos for being the first to kick up a stink over something.
#AllCosplayMatters
It's almost like this is a complex issue that isn't easily solved by token gestures and literal skin suits.
It's almost like this is a complex issue that isn't easily solved by token gestures and literal skin suits.
There's been outrage over much less and I can guarantee some people will see it as problematic. The fact that they didn't have white children dress up in that for their promo pic slowed the storm a little but it's coming.
And I'm sure you're speaking for all Polynesian people when you say that nobody will see it as making fun of their culture.
Or it's a complete non-issue that a few sjws want to make into one for shits and giggles
Until a Polynesian comes here and tells me this deeply offends them on some level I can't comprehend, I'm going with the prior
He's a cool character. And it's a bodysuit that will look stupid on white folk.
I'm a ginger scot, should I write a letter of complaint about the Merida wig? I really hope we don't have any blue genies browsing that website...
if you think about it, it looks like someone skinned a man...
Oh silly me I forgot about the native green skinned people. You showed me.
does it come with a WWE contract?
Every costume should just me the human being from Community, that way nobody can get offended.
Oh silly me I forgot about the native green skinned people. You showed me.
Fuck this thread is over the top, jesus. How the fuck is this "black facing"? What, we should condemn kids for dressing up as their favourite character? Or only allow them to dress up as characters that are the same ethnicity as them? Your rhetoric seems to be reinforcing racism more than anything else, YOU'RE the one reducing a population to tattoos and skin colour you realise that right? Most will see this as a (admittedly tacky) costume for Maui, because, you know, those are his tattoos and skin colourHilarious that the same people not cool with Twitch-whoever dropping N-bombs are okay with this. This is blackface; the shameful reduction and productization of a PEOPLE. Not "WWE" characters, you fuck! Believe it or not, Dwayne does not represent Polynesia. Polynesians are a PEOPLE! No less important than any other.