Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Depictions of minority groups in a stereotypical or harmful way.
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Movie • 2021 Report
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SiRenfield
Even ignoring the infamous advocacy of restraint, this movie is just plain not good at depicting autism as Music is infantilized to hell and back, and has little to no agency as a character. And autistic people are not even the only victim of this either as black people and people with addiction are also misinterpret
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
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jdpamv
Romani stereotyping, including the “magic Romani trope” and the portrayal of Romani as horse thrives. The g-slur is also used many times.
Movie • 2000 Report
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TV Show • 1997 Report
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jdpamv
While it’s not promoted for the most part, much of the humor revolves around intentional misrepresentation. In the majority of episodes with stereotypes, it could be seen as "equal opportunity offensive" (although YMMV on even that since the show is written by cis straight white men). However, I’m not going to pretend like that’s always the case, the Trans Garrison arc has very transphobic messaging as does more or less every episode about trans people. There has also been misrepresentation of native South Americans, etc. There are almost certainly more instances I don't remember.
Video Game • 2020 Report
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DanielLC
The character Cadence is based on the Kandakes of Kush, and likely Amanirenas specifically. Kush was in what is now Southern Egypt, but the people there were dark-skinned, and Cadence appears middle eastern.
Movie • 2017 Report
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Anonymous
As someone with diagnosed DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) I can confirm that this is not only a poor misrepresentation of DID, but a harmful one at that.
This film depicts the person with DID as an abusive monster, a very real stigma targeted at the DID community that has only worsened by this films release. It lacks proper education, nuance, and respect that only continues to spread misinformation and fear to those uneducated.
Mental health isn't a horror trope, though it's definitely treated as one in this film and takes to dehumanizing the main character instead of doing right by it's source material.
This film depicts the person with DID as an abusive monster, a very real stigma targeted at the DID community that has only worsened by this films release. It lacks proper education, nuance, and respect that only continues to spread misinformation and fear to those uneducated.
Mental health isn't a horror trope, though it's definitely treated as one in this film and takes to dehumanizing the main character instead of doing right by it's source material.
Video Game Report
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FatherIsCynophobic
Racism, transphobia, fatphobia, and especially ableism are written into the game.
One of the students is revealed to have a mental disorder which is tastelessly portrayed, and plenty of ableist insults are used in the game overall.
Hiro and Sakura get the brunt of the anti-blackness; Hifumi is the embodiment of the "fat geek" stereotype, which is mostly played at his expense; and the major twist in one of the trials may trigger trauma in trans individuals as a result of bioessentialist stereotypes.
One of the students is revealed to have a mental disorder which is tastelessly portrayed, and plenty of ableist insults are used in the game overall.
Hiro and Sakura get the brunt of the anti-blackness; Hifumi is the embodiment of the "fat geek" stereotype, which is mostly played at his expense; and the major twist in one of the trials may trigger trauma in trans individuals as a result of bioessentialist stereotypes.
TV Show • 2008 Report
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Pantalones
Mexicans/Mexico are misrepresented. Most shots of Mexico show only poor villages with no electricity. Many of the Mexican characters are cartel members, gang members, scary silent assassins, or drug dealers.
Movie • 2008 Report
Yes
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Heretoavoidtriggers
Yes, through the entire series both in books and movies we hear outdated terms for the families who live on the reservation, have stereotypes emplaced on them, and I think the worst of all is that the author based everything off of an existing tribe.
Movie • 1953 Report
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RyanS
Native Americans are depicted in a racist fashion
Movie • 1991 Report
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SiRenfield
Buffalo Bill is a bit complicated as he’s not an actual trans woman (and there’s even a scene in the novel that tries to both make it clear and try to humanize trans people more by distancing him from them) ,but it’s still pretty iffy
Movie • 1975 Report
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Anonymous
definitely in the zone of questionable queer representation, if any outdated lgbt+ language/stereotypes are a big bother, probably skip it
Movie • 2004 Report
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Movie • 1999 Report
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CassetteMeower
Basically the entire show
TV Show • 2011 Report
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Movie • 1955 Report
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RyanS
The Siamese Cat song sequence is a racist caricature of Asians
TV Show • 2005 Report
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cha0ticneutralsystem
The “windy boys” as I will be calling them (rhymes with bendigo) are shown and spoken about, the name is said repeatedly and often in Indigenous folk lore saying their name or writing their name attracts them to you (which is why I refuse to type the name)
Movie • 1980 Report
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DeadGoldfish
Absolutely there is. One of the camp counselors, Ed I think, dances around with a Native American headdress, as well as shoots a bow with a feather in his hair.
TV Show • 2012 Report
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FrogsAreGood
In “Bottomless Pit”, Mabel, Soos and Dipper are, in a flashback, in a stereotypical “cowboys and Indians” themed pinball machine. Mabel is wearing a feather on her head, and stereotypical Native American clothing, simplified and stylised for her fashion sense and the shows style. There are worse misrepresentations but these have been stated already. :)
Movie • 2019 Report
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Anonymous
Angel Dust is a walking outdated stereotype of gay people. He’s heavily sexualized and only ever thinks about sex, has a campy way of speaking, is a drug addict…
TV Show • 2020 Report
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tial
Some of the characters have had their races swapped from the source material (Deep is now white instead of black like in the comics, A-Train is now black instead of white like in the comics), but aside from that I can’t really think of an example of minority misrepresentation that wasn’t an intentional plot point regarding racism, bigotry etc.
TV Show • 1994 Report
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leom196
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In Carol and Susan's wedding, basically the only straight women there were Rachel, her mom, Monica and Phoebe. All the others were lesbian and very stereotyped (like if for being lesbians they'd only know lesbian women).
Movie • 2001 Report
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saste12
The character Enrique isn't in the movie very long, but he is a walking Latino stereotype.
Movie Report
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Ingeborg
Without seeing to much of the movie it seems like there is portrayal of a obese person who eats to much and lazy/ mostly negative things about this person, which kinda mocks and blames people who Are both obese and overweight
Movie • 1961 Report
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DeenGray
Mr. Yunioshi has Buck teeth, squinty eyes, broken English, and was done in yellowface by a white actor
Movie • 1970 Report
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RyanS
One scene has a cat that is racist caricature of Chinese People
Movie • 2009 Report
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PictoralExtrovert
Yes, multiple passing insults and comments towards an Indian exchange student about his privates and racist comments about an Asian doing her nails.
TV Show • 2004 Report
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roseatespoonbill
Yeah the asexuality episode is pretty terrible. It's not that asexuality can NEVER be caused by medical stuff, it's that it's the one singular depiction that they ever had of it and they didn't try that hard to show that real people can be asexual without needing to be cured.
Movie • 1984 Report
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RyanS
The whole movie depicts India and Indian culture in a variety of gross (in many ways) and racist stereotypes. The Thugees themselves didn't exist in real life and were a product of racist colonial paranoia.
TV Show • 2010 Report
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RowanOakley
Infamously, there is an episode ("Over a Barrel", if I recall correctly), where the conflict between Native Americans and European settlers is basically wildly misrepresented in metaphor.