Is a minority is misrepresented?
Any minority- be it cultural, LGBT, religious, race, neurodivergent people, disabled people, or any other- represented in a way that is incorrect, stereotyped, or otherwise biased.
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Movie • 2017 Report
Yes
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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.
TV Show • 1997 Report
Yes
21
No
4
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jdpamv
While it’s not promoted for the most part, more than a bit of the humor revolves around intentional misrepresentation. In the majority of episodes with stereotypes, it is equal-opportunity (and even viewed as more accurate than some portrayals in less tryingly offensive media by a few members of these groups). However, I’m not going to pretend like that’s always the case, while they’ve undone the effects of it the Trans Garrison arc has some pretty ugly messages about trans people and is overall transphobic in portrayal. There are probably more instances I'm forgetting.
TV Show • 2008 Report
Yes
19
No
2
7
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.
Video Game Report
Yes
18
No
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2
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.
Movie • 1953 Report
Yes
18
No
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7
RyanS
Native Americans are depicted in a racist fashion
TV Show • 1999 Report
Yes
17
No
1
3
CassetteMeower
Basically the entire show
Movie • 2008 Report
Yes
17
No
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2
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 • 2021 Report
Yes
16
No
0
5
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!
Video Game • 2020 Report
Yes
14
No
2
3
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 Report
Yes
14
No
4
2
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 • 1955 Report
Yes
13
No
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5
RyanS
The Siamese Cat song sequence is a racist caricature of Asians
Movie • 1991 Report
Yes
13
No
3
9
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 • 1970 Report
Yes
12
No
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5
RyanS
One scene has a cat that is racist caricature of Chinese People
Movie • 1984 Report
Yes
12
No
0
7
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 • 2005 Report
Yes
12
No
1
TV Show • 2011 Report
Yes
12
No
5
Movie • 2000 Report
Yes
12
No
4
Movie Report
Yes
11
No
1
1
howdywrites
Shot of Hasidic Jewish folks wearing caricatures
TV Show • 2023 Report
Yes
11
No
1
0
SandyLife223
Everyone is misrepresented even mentally ill people
TV Show • 2013 Report
Yes
10
No
1
3
Achill3s
The Humans VS Faunus plotline is a pretty bad race metaphor that carries on throughout the series. Faunus are often misrepresented as violent, "filthy" criminals and animals by humans.
Movie • 2010 Report
Yes
10
No
0
3
SiRenfield
Somehow whitewashes a show with an entirely Asian cast
Movie • 1961 Report
Yes
10
No
0
5
DeenGray
Mr. Yunioshi has Buck teeth, squinty eyes, broken English, and was done in yellowface by a white actor
Video Game • 2023 Report
Yes
10
No
1
6
jdpamv
Thankfully she's never misgendered but the trans woman in the game is named Sirona Ryan, I'm not kidding. Many people have inferred that Harry Potter goblins are based on false, antisemitic caricatures, and this game blows it up even further by having them be treated as villains for fighting for their rights.
TV Show • 2009 Report
Yes
10
No
0
Movie • 2001 Report
Yes
9
No
1
4
saste12
The character Enrique isn't in the movie very long, but he is a walking Latino stereotype.
Movie • 2009 Report
Yes
9
No
1
3
SiRenfield
Inaccurate and potentially offensive misrepresentations of Cajun people and voodoo
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
9
No
0
9
helpfulbug
the youngest son of the rich family dresses up as a native american and 'camps' in the garden in a 'tipi'. later in the movie he forces another character to wear a larger headdress as well.
this is critized in the movie its here to make the character seem unaware and privileged
TV Show • 2017 Report
Yes
9
No
1
1
Freyfreyb
Gay people are called Gender Traitors
TV Show • 1994 Report
Yes
9
No
0
Movie • 1999 Report
Yes
8
No
3
5
jdpamv
Not directly but there are aliens that seem a lot like racist stereotypes. Jar Jar Binks has dreadlock-like ears, speaks in broken English, and is portrayed as stupid, Watto is a short, fat conman with a giant nose who owns slaves, and the Neimodians have almond-shaped eyes, speak in mock Asian accents, and cause a trade blockade. I’m a huge fan of Star Wars but I’m also not convinced by any argument that these parallels are coincidental.