297Kristen Stewart at the Cosmopolis premiere afterparty at the Cannes Film Festival, May 25th
Shailene Woodley
i mean i know that’s how i take my vest off
isn’t that how everybody does it
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289Richard Madden photographed by Leonardo Manzo for Esquire Mexico, May 2012
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4239UNPOPULAR OPINION TIEMZ
I like the TV show Girls. And I don’t feel like being one of the million people dogpiling on it about the race issue. Now, I think the “not enough diversity” complaint is 100% valid. I understand that it must be disappointing and alienating for women of color to not have their experience represented in a show that has been billed as For Women. I think that Girls should work to show a wider range of ethnicities, sexualities, etc. But so should everyone else.
There should be an epic shitstorm over the lack of diversity on most television. But I feel like the fact that Girls is one of the (if not the) only honest depiction of what it is to be a woman (for SOME people, not everyone. Not all art is transcendent of all divisions) on television and the intensity and focus of this particular shitstorm are not coincidental. They are not removed facts. Where’s the rage at the two shows it shares a night with, Game of Thrones and Veep? There are maybe three people of color between both. How about other shows that take place in New York? Where’s the diversity on Gossip Girl? How I Met Your Mother? 2 Broke Girls features some minority characters, but most of the time they’re portrayed in offensive or stereotypical ways. I mean, Jesus Christ, Sex and the City was so whitewashed it was blinding, and I don’t remember hearing nearly the amount of criticism that I’m hearing for Girls.
And let me be extra-clear: I don’t think that the lack of diversity on Girls is a good thing, and neither does Lena Dunham. I think that her response was honest and classy: she admitted that it’s a completely valid criticism and promised to try to rectify the problem in later seasons. She also said that the reason for the lack of minorities is based upon her own fear of inaccurately representing subcultures she hasn’t adequately experienced. I think that’s a legitimate fear, and it’s one that I relate to. Regardless, people keep giving her shit. And I think there’s a reason for this, removed of what people are actually saying out loud.
As a culture, we are made incredibly uncomfortable by women doing things. We can have shows with women in them. We can even have shows ABOUT women, as long as it’s still produced and written and directed and edited by men and as long as it takes place staunchly under the male gaze. Women can’t be sexually comfortable. They can’t desire as much as they are desired. They can’t be imperfect and awkward and overweight and irreverent. So when a show like Girls comes along with the audacity to portray the female experience as a human experience, everybody starts flipping the fuck out and nitpicking as hard as they possibly can.
There are tons of other shows on television right now that are just as whitewashed as Girls. This is not okay and this is not right. All complaints about the lack of diversity on Girls are totally legitimate, and if it leads to a louder conversation about this issue, that can only be positive. But I feel that it would be more productive to try and solve what is a systematic and widespread problem instead of using it as a cheap weapon with which to bludgeon to death something that otherwise has a lot of merit.
0My sister and I have reached the point
where when she does something weird and I start typing, she assumes that I am Tumbling her.
…I usually am.
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Kirsten Dunst (in Dior) and Kristen Stewart (n Balenciaga) at the On the Road premiere at the Cannes Film Festival
She looks absolutely trashed in all of her photos (KStew does) but DAT DRESS
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