cool girls are everywhere but its such a challenge to find one guy thats like mildly interesting to talk toâŚâŚ. itâs like they all have the personality of an actual adidas sandal
– Out of all the roles of the entire franchise she could have made to be of an Asian woman, she chose a snake who is subservient to a white male fascist. Asian women are tirelessly misrepresented in Western media, and by extent misjudged by consumers of that media, to be submissive and inferior to white men by default of both gender and race.
– Ideally, it would be cool if we could normalise her being a villain and whatnot, but the shortage of unhurtful representations of Asian women in Western media and JK Rowlingâs works does not allow this.
– Rowling claims Naga is an Indonesian myth when it is actually an Indian myth. If she genuinely cared for diversity, Googling the four-letter word âNagaâ on her diamond buttons shouldnât hurt her fingers that much.
– East Asians are underrepresented and mispresented in Western media, but even more so South and Southeast Asians. But sure, a South Korean actress will do because all Asians look the same.
The above points really canât be challenged by âOh, but we havenât watched the movie yet!â, because that argument is irrelevant to them.
– âIf Nagini was white, you people would still complain!â Yeah, because JK Rowling could just haveâŚ..not made Nagini ~secretly~ a person at all. The more she tries to milk this franchise, the more holes she rips in her already well established canon of the Harry Potter universe. At this point she is just picking out side characters who were written ambiguously because other details werenât important to the plot or world building of the original 7 books, and put in some shocking twist on them for mastermind-writer and diversity points.
I couldnât not sigh at J.K. Rowlingâs response here, because first of all, Claudia Kim is a Korean actress, whom Rowling didnât even think to list in her tweet there (I feel bad for the actress;; she must have been excited to get a role in a major franchise, but this is just⌠there are so many issues;;;)
Literally the first thing that comes up when you google ânagaâ is:Â
if ten years ago someone had told me that nagini was actually A WOMAN I would have laughed because of the nonsense of it, but today? after that voldemort-actually-had-a-child-with-bellatrix mess? Today I just shrug it off and consider it plausible