There’s a new Superman series out where Lois Lane has a slightly darker skin tone, isn’t there? And, from what I gather, it’s very popular.
A part of me initially felt “Why don’t they just make these characters match their old appearance?” Then I realized, we’ve been recycling the same media properties a hundred times, and they all started in an age when we depicted everyone as being white (and once in a while, had a racially charged stereotype as a token character). So maybe just like some properties get emotionally darker, maybe we can tweak a few to be skintone-darker and not lose anything.
Toxic fandom when white actors play people of color from reality: 🤷
Toxic fandom when a cartoon character changes to a darker hue or a sea cryptid is less pale: 🤯🤬🧨🔫🗡🚮
There’s a new Superman series out where Lois Lane has a slightly darker skin tone, isn’t there? And, from what I gather, it’s very popular.
A part of me initially felt “Why don’t they just make these characters match their old appearance?” Then I realized, we’ve been recycling the same media properties a hundred times, and they all started in an age when we depicted everyone as being white (and once in a while, had a racially charged stereotype as a token character). So maybe just like some properties get emotionally darker, maybe we can tweak a few to be skintone-darker and not lose anything.
New Lois does seem pretty hot to me.
When has a white actor played a black person?
I don’t know about black, but John Wayne as Genghis Khan was pretty fucking egregious, to name one example…
You’re kidding right? Please Google “whitewashing”
Just “whitewashing” on its own isn’t a great stretch term. Whitewashing in film is better.