ayanna

The idea of ‘loving’ an AI reminds me of the story of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection and ended up starving because he couldn’t tear himself from it. Ultimately, that’s all it is. An echo of whatever you put out, bouncing back at you from an empty space. And like Narcissus, these people are starving themselves of the emotions, t... See more

"the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but as reciprocally constructing phenomena that in turn shape complex social inequalities."

Yes, this includes his animated movies, where his voice actors and animations lack any sort of diversity

I feel the clickbait headlines decrying Tim Burton as a racist are irritating. But as some are saying here, he evidently has blindspots. While he clearly does not appear to have any malice towards other races, he often seems to see them through the lens of the media he consumed as a kid: the Koreans doing kung fu in Big Fish , the "Soul Train" in B... See more

"wasn't really looking at the political aspects" of the Confederacy in the film, rather, the gender-oriented ones.

Coppola also said she felt uncomfortable showcasing African-American women onscreen because of the heaviness of the topic and the “responsibility” of portraying a character of color

“...wished to explore the gender dynamics of the Confederacy, not the racial ones.”