It is literally the antithesis of "a shift in focus" -- this is literally The Same Focus on White Women in Hollywood.
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Honestly @jes_chastain as an outspoken voice for equality how do you pose for a photo like this and not feel absolutely mortified by the blatant exclusion? How is it possible to not understand the msg this photo sends?pic.twitter.com/nb8caRfVL6
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To present these women collectively worth millions of dollars as change agents when black women with like regular jobs just saved an entire Southern state from a racist pedophile getting seat in the US senate is just beyond.
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It's not just abt assigning editors or photographers or the very obvious and well-known whiteness of Hollywood. It's abt individual accountability. These are smart, outspoken, savvy women who are demonstrating a lack of self awareness or willful obtusity or both.
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I cannot help but to think of the young black girls and girls of color who see an image like this whether aspiring actresses or not and instantaneously getting the message that there is no place for them in mainstream, valued America.
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@jes_chastain How do you work w an iconic actress like Viola Davis, who has been treated horribly by media re her appearance, and who herself is raising a young daughter, and not immediately issue some sort of corrective for an image like this?Show this thread -
Obviously structural change takes time but the collective power in this image -- the platform, the agency, the privilege -- could at least recognize the way in which the optics here double down resolutely on willful exclusion of people of color.
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I feel the criticism should be leveled at the magazine, not the women they paid to show up for the photo shoot.
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They are not just "women they paid to show up" -- they are inordinately smart, privileged women, at least three of which have been hella outspoken about feminism, equality and equal pay for women in Hollywood.
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Absolutely; but I doubt they’re responsible for the editorial content and decisions. It’s a horrible cover, but it seems like backlash is killing the messenger.
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This is willful erasure. Imagine being white and in a roomful of white people or part of an all white staff or workspace and thinking "Oh well, not my problem!"
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Rebecca you are speaking so much truth. We are still hidden figures although we carry the burden of this entire nation! Where’s the
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Last thing you need is a middle age white guy Chiming in . However, when I see this cover I realize that I should chime in because Rebecca is 100 percent right.
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Thank you, "middle-aged white guy", for chiming in. IMO, solidarity is important. signed, -middle-aged biracial
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I saw the picture and thought is this 'Aryan Weekly'? Just crazy.
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Well this is ridiculous.
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Lol. What is this fuckery?
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OMG that’s the funniest troll I’ve ever read!!! LMAOLMAOLMAO LOL LOL LOL We wuz kangs tumblr!! Bahahahahaha!!pic.twitter.com/oRINIjL52z
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