fygirlcrush:

My issue with Jennifer Lawrence isn’t actually Jennifer Lawrence, you know? I think she’s an extremely talented, charismatic, beautiful young woman who I find genuinely interesting to watch on screen, both in film and in her interviews. She’s a great movie star, and I hope she keeps on for the long haul.

My issue is the people trying to sell Jennifer Lawrence to me. Because these assholes see Lawrence as a way to placate the public. “Here, look! She eats! She’s just like you! Sometimes she sounds dumb and people probably called her fat at some point! She’s the ALTERNATIVE to the fake skinny actresses you’ve been slightly less interested in during the last few years!”

She’s being used to make people forget that there’s no one who looks like them on screen. JENNIFER LAWRENCE is the spunky, not “conventionally attractive” (but COME ON) alternative to the other mellow whitebread actresses out there, which leaves no room for actual alternative choices. She gets nominated for awards not just because of her talent, but because there won’t be an uproar if she wins over, say, Lupita Nyong’o. Because she’s just like us.

Why hire a woman of colour, or a woman in the right age bracket, or a woman with an average (or above average) body type? If we put Jennifer Lawrence in the role, people might think it’s dumb for a second, but then they’ll be charmed by her “normalness” and feel less like they got screwed out of an interesting or more realistic casting choice.

I want to see Jennifer Lawrence in films, but we NEED to stop accepting her as the “interesting” and “different” choice.