June 2013
I'm not saying this is right of them in any sense, but I think casting Johnny Depp was also a way of drawing in more audience. It's kinda the same deal with how they cast Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince of Persia. Your average joe-blow is more likely to go see a movie where they know the main actor vs. when they don't. It's less 'we don't want to cast someone that's first nation' and more 'we want to put johnny depp somewhere in the main cast so that people will see our movie'
Oh of course
rifa:
The original Tonto was played by a native american. Jay Silverheels was from the Mohawk tribe.
There was less white washing in a 1949 tv series than a movie that is being released in 2013.
But Johny Depp is part Cherokee if I am not mistaken. I mean he is certainly white-passing but not an actual white guy :/
his great grandmother was Cherokee. So yeah, he’s not full-blooded Native American but hey it’s better than a straight up white dude getting the role.
This totally lost me followers but let me clarify a thing… Just cause I pointed out that Depp is part Cherokee does’t mean I am thrilled about him playing Tonto. I’m not, I don’t really plan on seeing the movie and I agree with people who think this was a massive missed opportunity to cast a visible native actor. That being said, I’ve already seen people saying he shouldn’t play the role because he isn’t native enough or he’s not full blooded or whatever. Uhm. Way to trivialize white-passing native people (like me…), lots of us have mixed heritage and that doesn’t mean we aren’t ‘actually’ native.
Followers are dropping like flies, great, they realized I post about more shit than Hannibal and Hannibal fics, oh no I am actual person….?
Tumblr manages to annoy me every morning why do I come here
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teachers who complain about grading work
are you fucking kidding me.
no.
no you sit the fuck down.
LET ME EXPLAIN YOU A THING
do you know how hard it is to be a teacher in the current economy? do you know what it’s like to frantically prepare students for standardized tests that contain literally nothing you feel like they need to learn but you have to ensure that they score well on them otherwise not only could you lose your job but also the school could lose funding
which means that funding for resources like
- subsidized lunches
- computers for the lab
- the fucking librarian’s fucking salary
could dry up?
do you know what it would be like to be hired expecting twenty children in a class but then half of your colleagues get fired so you suddenly have forty children in a class? and then if you’re an average middle or high school teacher you have five or six or sometimes seven classes?
yeah in case you can’t do math because you were too busy making fun of your teacher to pay attention, that’s 200 or 240 or fucking 280 students. and at least 75% of them turn in every assignment. and then you have to grade them, knowing that if you don’t assign x amount of papers your class could get audited and, unless you have tenure (which some teachers now don’t get until seven years after they have the job - that’s SEVEN FUCKING YEARS OF NOT KNOWING IF YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE A JOB THE FOLLOWING YEAR) you could lose your job if the administration doesn’t find your class adequate?
also, on top of grading papers, some districts require teacher regularly undergo retraining for students with disabilities, students with english as a second language, sexual assault counseling, bullying prevention, and community relations? and they’re supposed to do all of this on an average salary of $45,000 a year (which is only slightly more than one year of university, aka in order to pay for their undergrad student loans plus their grad school loans they would have to do nothing but pay down loans with their salaries for six fucking years and not buy food or shelter)?
also, side note: teachers do not ever “get the summer off.” they’re planning the shit out of the school year, and attending training days, and researching ways to make their teaching more effective, and handling panicking parents whose students will be entering their classes next year. “summer off” my ass. teachers work as hard during the summer as they do during the school year.
people on this website complain about being stressed out for a lot of things - some serious, some not.
but imagine the stress of having in your care the education of over two hundred people while paying off an astronomical debt to do an often thankless job
AND THEN GIVE ME SOME PISSANT MEME OF A CRYING GIRL YOU FUCKERS
I knew you weren't gay, you just have a raging Argonian boner. THE TRUTH COMES OUT
ITS TRUE
Also I lost another follower whoops
The original Tonto was played by a native american. Jay Silverheels was from the Mohawk tribe.
There was less white washing in a 1949 tv series than a movie that is being released in 2013.
But Johny Depp is part Cherokee if I am not mistaken. I mean he is certainly white-passing but not an actual white guy :/
So last night was kinda weird. Anything get broken?
Yeah no kidding, and uh, I lost two followers from it, aside from that its all good
Oh my god Rifa I finished BioShock about a week ago and JESUS that game was amazing!!!!!!!!!! It's #1 on my list of games, top notch story, characters, and ending. I may or may not have teared up at the end. Now I appreciate yours and Mana's BioShock cosplay so much more! :D
:”’3 oh wow, thanks so much darling! And yeah wowee, its a great game 83
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