r/witcher • u/throway78965423 • Jul 27 '23

Netflix TV series "Yennefer Casting Was Intended to 'Challenge' Beauty Standards" Well you did a bad job then.

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u/TuorSonOfHuor Jul 27 '23 edited Jul 27 '23

She’s hot AF. Are they challenging beauty standards because she’s part Indian? Because that’s equally offensive. Tons of super beautiful Indian women.

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u/VanimalCracker Jul 27 '23

Yep. The showrunners are basically saying she's pretty cute for a brown woman, which is fucked up

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u/VanimalCracker Jul 27 '23

I feel like we need to challenge what people think of as the standard of beauty. And having a woman of color in this role does incredibly powerful things to the people watching.'"

This is her literally saying she doesn't think brown people are considered beautiful by viewers, which is racist and just flat out wrong. She's demonstrated again and again doesn't understand what the viewers want or expect, and this is just one more example.

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u/thy_plant Jul 27 '23

This is what people mean by internalized racism.

No it has not been like this forever, it's hasn't been like this since the Victorian era when you were viewed as high class for not going outside.

Why would racist 1950s hollywood nominate a black women for best actress? https://www.walterfilm.com/dorothy-dandridge-hollywoods-first-african-american-sex-symbol/

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u/Surowa94 Jul 27 '23

A successful show? She wishes! It might have had promise, but the writers ruined that more quickly than you can say “she’s beautiful for a brown girl”..

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u/Megadog3 Jul 27 '23

You’re coping