blahblahblather: masteradept: razycrandomcunt: racebending: The image above was created from gathering all of the significant named characters from released Marvel Studios movies as documented on the Marvel Movies wikia. It’s pretty sad. As you can see, only 22% of the characters are women and half of them are love interests. There are over twice as many supporting characters who are men than women (and none of them function as love interests like the women do.) 84% of the characters are white. 60% of the characters are white men, including all the main characters 77%of the characters are men 76% of the men are white 81% of the characters (both genders) are white All of the women are white Allof the characters of color are men None of the characters are women of color Out of all the films, Thor probably does the best in introducing diverse side characters. Natalie Portman and Kat Denning’s characters pass the Bechdel test within the first five minutes, and some of the Asgardians are played by people of color including Idris Elba’s Heimdall and Tabano Asano’s Hogun. Four white women characters are introduced instead of the other films’ average of one or two. But even then, there’s no question that the main characters of the film are Thor and his brother Loki. Marvel is working off of decades of existing properties that for years solely focused on white men and a the demographic market of white men. So it makes sense that many of the films would have an abundance of white male characters. Beyond ratios, what doesn’t make sense is that even in the comics there is also an abundance of characters of color, etc. that they are ignoring or underutilizing. There are already five completed films where the titular character is a white man, with more to come. There are no films in the works where the titular character is a person of color or a woman. … Women made up at least 40% of the audience of The Avengers, yet only one out of the six Avengers–Black Widow–was a woman. Women also made up 40% of attendees at this year’s ComicCon. Why, given the scarcity of female heroic leads in the existing Marvel films, did Marvel choose to announce the addition of several more male characters but only one new female character? Read the full article at Racebending.com: On Marvel, Mandarin, and Marginalization but what about the Blade Movies and Spawn? >_> Spawn was not Marvel. Blade was mostly white folks except for his mother and Wright’s character in the first one. I’m really disappointed that racebending keeps saying people of color or/and a woman. Even though they note in their bullet list that all of the POC are men and all the women are white, their general phrasing of POC or a Woman, goes back to completely erasing WOC, because when they say and/or a woman, they mean white, and when they say POC they really mean men. Thank you for this critique. As a woman of color myself it has been hard to navigate how to use this terminology without getting all tangled up. It is hard working around the default assumptions and unspoken norms (evinced here) that PoC are men, women are white, and gender is binary. To be absolutely clear, I mean that Marvel hasn’t green lit any films where the titular character is a PoC (of any gender) or woman (of any race, but really even this wording is limiting because it’s basically anybody but white cisgendered men.)

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masteradept:

razycrandomcunt:

racebending:

The image above was created from gathering all of the significant named characters from released Marvel Studios movies as documented on the Marvel Movies wikia.

It’s pretty sad. As you can see, only 22% of the characters are women and half of them are love interests. There are over twice as many supporting characters who are men than women (and none of them function as love interests like the women do.) 84% of the characters are white.

  • 60% of the characters are white men, including all the main characters
  • 77%of the characters are men
  • 76% of the men are white
  • 81% of the characters (both genders) are white
  • All of the women are white
  • Allof the characters of color are men
  • None of the characters are women of color

Out of all the films, Thor probably does the best in introducing diverse side characters. Natalie Portman and Kat Denning’s characters pass the Bechdel test within the first five minutes, and some of the Asgardians are played by people of color including Idris Elba’s Heimdall and Tabano Asano’s Hogun. Four white women characters are introduced instead of the other films’ average of one or two. But even then, there’s no question that the main characters of the film are Thor and his brother Loki.

Marvel is working off of decades of existing properties that for years solely focused on white men and a the demographic market of white men. So it makes sense that many of the films would have an abundance of white male characters. Beyond ratios, what doesn’t make sense is that even in the comics there is also an abundance of characters of color, etc. that they are ignoring or underutilizing. There are already five completed films where the titular character is a white man, with more to come. There are no films in the works where the titular character is a person of color or a woman.

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Women made up at least 40% of the audience of The Avengers, yet only one out of the six Avengers–Black Widow–was a woman. Women also made up 40% of attendees at this year’s ComicCon. Why, given the scarcity of female heroic leads in the existing Marvel films, did Marvel choose to announce the addition of several more male characters but only one new female character?


Read the full article at Racebending.com: On Marvel, Mandarin, and Marginalization

but what about the Blade Movies and Spawn? >_>

Spawn was not Marvel. Blade was mostly white folks except for his mother and Wright’s character in the first one.

I’m really disappointed that racebending keeps saying people of color or/and a woman. Even though they note in their bullet list that all of the POC are men and all the women are white, their general phrasing of POC or a Woman, goes back to completely erasing WOC, because when they say and/or a woman, they mean white, and when they say POC they really mean men.

Thank you for this critique. As a woman of color myself it has been hard to navigate how to use this terminology without getting all tangled up. It is hard working around the default assumptions and unspoken norms (evinced here) that PoC are men, women are white, and gender is binary. To be absolutely clear, I mean that Marvel hasn’t green lit any films where the titular character is a PoC (of any gender) or woman (of any race, but really even this wording is limiting because it’s basically anybody but white cisgendered men.)

(via frank-e-fighting-words)