Still, the point stands. The film industry gravitating towards white male is an everyone-problem.
Maybe they do, but it damn sure wasn't during thime #Oscarssowhite That was the point
That's a catch 22. Assure there will be "adequate representation" to people she is inviting that would present representation? Did the chicken or the egg come first?
That's inclusivity.
A personal invitation isn't the same thing as advertising you are hiring. C'mon.
It really is. I've never heard or read the word "Mexicanx" for example. It's just "Mexicano" unless you're exclusively talking about women and then it's "Mexicana". Like others have said here, try saying out loud Mexicanx here and you'll be laughed out of the room after having to explain what you meant because no one will understand you the first time.
Damn, you got me there!
It is the same logic. Don't be obtuse.
21.5% of Mexico's population identify as being indigenous I'm not sure about other Latin American countries.
And if she puts in an effort and afrolatinas , except for Rosario, still don't show up, she can't take a picture of the group present?
That's a poor example since people [mostly in person and in working spaces] are moving away from saying "you guys" to saying "you all"
Then it's obvious she didn't put in enough effort and she should do better next time. Take a picture if you want.
You just made that up and/or is entirely anecdotal. Show me the receipts that ppl are not using anymore "you guys" because otherwise I'm just going to ignore it.
Unlike the English colonialists, the Spanish conquerors mixed more with the locals both by blood (sons and daughters) and by enslaving them. That's why we have so much mestizo (race mixing) than in the US. The English killed most and those they didn't they just displaced them to a corner and never bred with them. The ppl the white conquerors in the US that they enslaved weren't even natives of the land.
Did you read the article? Since he cites multiple people in different industries.
What an iron clad argument! I'll concede then that some very socially conscious individuals may be doing that but to say most are is just not true. It's as if I said most are moving away from eating meat by showing you an article about how more people are going vegetarian except the amount of vegetarians is still like, say, 5%.
Did I hurt you?
And enslaved a lot of them in order to plunder the natural resources.
One article (which seems very anecdotal) does tell me there are some people trying to move away from "you guys" but it doesn't tell me that it's a generalized nation wide phenomenon. Besides I don't see the reason why even bother since I've always known that the word "guys" is gender neutral just as the word "people" is. I never thought of it as only usable for men anyway.
This is me minus the "cultural imperialism" part which is a bit harsh but I basically agree. It's ear grating and made up.
It's a tactic used to discredit progress and to avoid self reflection on whether their language and rhetoric should change. Since if white people are behind it, it must be harmful and nonsense to people of color. When in reality Latinx people created and popularized the word.
I'm all for social progress but us telling you that the word Latinx sucks and we don't like being called that isn't stopping social progress. And in this particular case that term was indeed made up and forced by non Spanish speaking Americans (not specifying the race though).
The same issue is there if you remove the "white" part. It's still Americans deciding they known best.
Keep in mind this didn't happen from one picture Gina posted. She has a rough history of not including Afro-Latinx whenever she talks about Latinx representation.
ALL language is being tinkered with to be more inclusive of non-binary folks. You don't have to like this iteration, but "fuckin' Americans" was leaving peoples mouths before the origin of the word was even established
I know that this was a throwaway statement, but it resonates with me.
But you don't have to make up a new word that sounds horrible and doesn't exist! This is not like being asked to call you "they" because you're gender non-conforming because "they" does exist. Thing is there's already a term in Spanish that is used to refer to eeeeveryone of every age, every height, and every gender (yes even non-binary) when referring to people of this specific demographic and that's "Latinos". You're implying that using that already gender neutral word is homophobic or something when it's not. Do not feel excluded, the word already includes everyone.
She's brought her father's skin tone into it. She claimed he was dark skinned and if that's her idea of what a dark skinned Afro-Latino is then it is no wonder she excludes Afro-Latinas from her photo shoots.
