andersaf:

i hate this whole culture of coddling movie studios in order to get more diversity. like, it’s 2016, if studios are nervous about releasing diverse films, that’s their problem and responsibility, not ours. saying “support this film because ~maybe just possibly~ they’ll put an lgbt/black/disabled/etc character in the sequel” shifts responsibility onto marginalized people, instead of the privileged producers and directors who refuse to put us in their films

like, if i don’t see a film with only one lgbt character in it, who probably dies or is treated very badly if they get any screentime at all, or they’re just ~coded as gay or baited as part of a ship or something, are you saying it’s my fault if the studio then chooses not to put any more lgbt characters in their movies because they “only” got 255 million dollars instead of 260?? like, are you seriously saying i have to pay for a fairly un-diverse film in order to tell the studio they need to do better??

like, films with marginalized characters have to prove themselves; films with no diversity can flop, but films about us have to do extraordinarily well. and i’m tired of the problem being framed as ‘marginalized people need to prove to studios that films about them can be successful’ instead of ‘studios need to take some responsibility and create the diverse media themselves, because it’s not our jobs and they know the demand is there’

i’m just incredibly skeptical of tumblr’s logic where yall believe if we give studios an extra 10 million dollars in profits they might slip a gay or other marginalized character in a film’s sequel, despite little proof of this actually happening in my experience, especially with giant companies like marvel or disney. i’m just bored of making diversity our responsibility instead of the privileged and cowardly multi-millionaire studios’