TV/Movies Megathread

[Malthus]

In an interesting twist, the half-Black sister ends up an heiress when her dad leaves her a pile of cash in her will, while her fully-white cousin/sister is left penniless. Much match-making insanity ensues - the key theme here is the intersection of race and privilege (the protagonist is in the unusual situation of being, in a large sense, more free than her fully white cousin, because she has money - yet she is very visibly Black. Oh what to do?!).

Did it make you check the intersection of your privilege?

I have a full deck of privileges.  White, straight, married, upper middle class, not disabled, male.

Oh, but I am only half-Anglo. 

To its credit, in the movie the protagonist fully realizes how damn lucky she is, though naturally she resents her bizzare status as both aristocrat and half-Black foundling (she can't eat with the family on formal occasions, but she also can't eat with the servants).

[Valmy]

I have a full deck of privileges.  White, straight, married, upper middle class, not disabled, male.

I can come break your legs if it would help.

[Malthus]

I have a full deck of privileges.  White, straight, married, upper middle class, not disabled, male.

I can come break your legs if it would help.

Hey, if I wanted to lose some privileges, I would go transgender and become a lesbian, thank you very much. 

[celedhring]

Just realised that if I moved back to the US I'd lose quite a few of mine. I'd go from white and middle class to being poor and hispanic. I'd probably stay straight though.

[Valmy]

Just realised that if I moved back to the US I'd lose quite a few of mine. I'd go from white and middle class to being poor and hispanic. I'd probably stay straight though.

In the bizarre race code of the US Hispanics are welcome to be white so long as they sorta look white at a distance while squinting.  You just have to speak English with an American accent....that part might be tough.

[celedhring]

Just realised that if I moved back to the US I'd lose quite a few of mine. I'd go from white and middle class to being poor and hispanic. I'd probably stay straight though.

In the bizarre race code of the US Hispanics are welcome to be white so long as they sorta look white at a distance while squinting.  You just have to speak English with an American accent....that part might be tough.

I do look very white, but my accent is thick as a brick.

[Syt]

Le Prénom

Childhood friends gather for dinner. To play a joke on his friends, Vincent says that he wants to name his son (his woman is five months pregnant) Adolf. This creates a chain of events that peels away everyone's masks and lays bare all their pent up frustrations and resentments from the last 30 years and airs out uncomfortable secrets.

Also, it's a comedy.

8/10

[Malthus]

Le Prénom

Childhood friends gather for dinner. To play a joke on his friends, Vincent says that he wants to name his son (his woman is five months pregnant) Adolf. This creates a chain of events that peels away everyone's masks and lays bare all their pent up frustrations and resentments from the last 30 years and airs out uncomfortable secrets.

Also, it's a comedy.

8/10

Sounds sorta what North Americans assume to be true of all continental Europeans. 

[crazy canuck]

In an interesting twist, the half-Black sister ends up an heiress when her dad leaves her a pile of cash in her will, while her fully-white cousin/sister is left penniless. Much match-making insanity ensues - the key theme here is the intersection of race and privilege (the protagonist is in the unusual situation of being, in a large sense, more free than her fully white cousin, because she has money - yet she is very visibly Black. Oh what to do?!).

Did it make you check the intersection of your privilege?

I have a full deck of privileges.  White, straight, married, upper middle class, not disabled, male.

Dont forget son of a university professor

[Queequeg]

Just realised that if I moved back to the US I'd lose quite a few of mine. I'd go from white and middle class to being poor and hispanic. I'd probably stay straight though.

In the bizarre race code of the US Hispanics are welcome to be white so long as they sorta look white at a distance while squinting.  You just have to speak English with an American accent....that part might be tough.

I do look very white, but my accent is thick as a brick.

If you're blonde, and IIRC you are, you won't be Hispanic. 

[derspiess]

In the bizarre race code of the US Hispanics are welcome to be white so long as they sorta look white at a distance while squinting.  You just have to speak English with an American accent....that part might be tough.

I read somewhere recently that Hispandexes are increasingly selecting "white" instead of "some other race" which had been the more popular option on census forms. 

I think this was the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/upshot/more-hispanics-declaring-themselves-white.html

[Grey Fox]

He's not Mexican nor Puertorican so he would be white, yes.

[Valmy]

He's not Mexican nor Puertorican so he would be white, yes.

Dude we have Carribbean islanders and Central and South Americans all over.  Dominicans are not considered white generally.

[Queequeg]

Orange is the New Black is the fucking worst. 

[Valmy]

Orange is the New Black is the fucking worst. 

Huh.  Don't like prison ladies?