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Comment on Cynthia Erivo calls out fans who made their own Wicked poster

bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yeah unless there’s any black women who want to educate us on the reality that black women have been historically had their eyes erased or something, this is just fucking weird.

They didn’t even like try to edit her to make her “more white” or something, like in terms of her facial features.

Sometimes people are seriously just oversensitive and looking for enemies where there are none.

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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As a white person I’m definitely not the one to say if that’s bad or not - but yeah that would be 100% a teaching moment - because I am not aware of anything like that. Instead of slamming down the hammer of “most offensive thing I’ve ever seen” for what I can only see as a fan poster that’s mimicing one that already exists she could have said something like “I understand why they did this, but here is why I disagree with it”. Personally as a fan of wicked, I was disappointed by the poster. Not enough to make my own, but the original poster was iconic to me.

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- bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Agreed. And the biggest issue for me with the official poster is the lack of vibrancy. It’s the drab “serious adult reboot” colours for some reason.
  
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  - scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Makes me worried they completely missed the mark for what Wicked as a show was and Hollywood’ed it all up
    
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the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
She didn’t mention race in her complaint. What makes you believe it’s a factor?

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- todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  She says “this degrades me, this degrades us”, and while I may be misreading what the means here, I interpreted “us” to mean “Black people”. Though it is vague wording so I can’t say for certain…
  
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Dragonstaff@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How specifically similar to this instance does the erasure of Black women need to be? Yes, Black women are dehumanized all the time. It’s common for movies to turn Black people into animals and objectify Black women in any number of ways.

That is what is offensive about the fan edit. In the original movie poster she is a person. Her eyes are meant to connect with the viewer. The fan edit specifically takes that away from her.

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