They don't understand because they don't have to fight other men or gain respect from other men.Let a woman define masculinity for you brehs
This is a bullshyt deflection. This isn't about how black men are supposedly oppressed by homophobia. This is about the legitimate observation that there is seemingly an agenda to effeminize black men. I don't know why so many black women feel the need to deflect from and dismiss that concern. A lot of black women share the white man's resentment and fear of black male masculinity and it's a damn shame.
Let me break this bullshyt down, yall:
No. The problem is THE WAY black men are being portrayed COMPARED to white males in the same film. There was NOTHING redeemable about FInn in the movie. NOT ONE THING WHATSOEVER. The problem is that YOU dont see the propaganda being pushed down black people's throats. Finn COULD have had SOME cowardly moments. To make his character more believable. But he was SUPPOSED to be a soldier and a ELITE one at that. He was intentionally portrayed as a bungling, cowardly, c00ning buffoon, not a masculine, intelligent male. There are many types of lead males. If you LOOK at ANY action movie the past 10 years, the white males ALWAYS had some redeeming quality about them, even if he had a "checkered past" or did something fukked up in the beginning. He WILL overcome his demons and WIN the respect of his love interest. FInn did NONE of that. Bu bu bu it's the first movie. Nah, even Luke redeeemed himself at the end. Finn was unconscious and didn't even CELEBRATE with his conrades.
As I sadi previously, he was a SOLDIER. There has not been one SERIOUS soldier character that has been a lead or secondary character character in recent memory that was portrayed as aweful as this Finn character. NONE.
Have you SEEN any Denzel movie?? ALL his characters commanded the presence of the audience. They were ALL intelligent or inspiring. NOT Finn. He neither commanded the attention or the screen.
And thats the problem. nikkas are being phased out of Hollywood already and we still want to see some bafoon being portrayed on screen.
Wrong, we need more INTELLIGENT and RESPECTFUL black characters being portrayed on screen. Finn showed NO intelligent qualities. He didn't even know anything about munitions. FOH.
And Finn wasn't a goofy coward??
Powerful posting...You have to realized why would a white publication would even allow a black female to publish anything concerning black men while not being detrimental to them.
It is because this article IS low-key c00ning
She is celebrating and ENCOURAGING black men in major films, to be COWARDLY. That's why the editor ran the piece.
No, in this day in age, black men CANNOT be cowardly.
She mentions racists were mad because Finn was black. Then she said that PEOPLE (IE black people) were mad because he wasnt a strong black male. What she omit to mention is that the racist WERE NOT mad when Star Wars came out because he was portrayed as the total opposite of what they FEARED.
Look at Gotham. The lead protagonist, Det Gordon, is a white male who takes chances, is brazen, cocky, not afraid to push the ladder, threaten corrupt superiors, go after the bad guys, and go against the grain of the corrupt police force, EVEN IF HE IS ALONE IN DOING SO. Not to mention his MULTIPLE love interests. I dont think he ever cried in season 1. As idealistic and one-sided this character is, THAT IS THE POINT OF HIS PORTRAYAL. THIS is what Black males should be portrayed as. NOT LIKE FINN who was seen as a buffoon, running away, looking up to other people, and chasing a girl who was NOT interested in him.
Her reasoning of Finn being scared is ASININE. Of course humans become scared. But to make a driving point in a major action picture is stupid. If he was white, he would have been portrayed much differently.
Yes, she is low-key c00ning. She doesn't like the masculine, high-testosterone black male action stars of yesteryear. SHe is encouraging MORE portrayals like Kevin Hart and Finn and even a feminized Jaden Smith. Nah b, I'll take Michael Jae White characters in action movies over cowardly Kevin Hart movies in a heartbeat.
