. The race of a voice actor doesn’t matter
. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy
. You don’t need to shower everyday
. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans
. Monty Python is very overrated
- ISO 8601 (e.g., 2025-05-23) are the only correct date formats.
- We should stop using time zones and daylight saving.
Stop using timezones? So every day would actually be two weekdays because at some random point in time it would switch date during the day. Let’s meet next Monday wouldn’t even specify a single day anymore in most countries. And there is no real benefit to stop using timezones, just downsides. Yes you’d know which time it is anywhere but you still wouldn’t know of they are awake or not and have to either look it up or remember it - the same you have to do now.
What aboutvRFC 3339? It’s technically different.
I forgot to mention. If you use country balls to explain something I’m not taking you seriously.
deleted by creator
It’s also colonialism.
deleted by creator
. The race of a voice actor doesn’t matter
The race and gender of an actor don’t matter. Ask Shakespeare
RIP Apu apparently
Summer is a crappy season, fall is superior.
The best season is the short window in spring where it’s warm out but the bugs aren’t out yet.
-Businesses should be run by people who are passionate about the giving a great product and/or service and not some shitty MBA who only except 10x return on his investment.
Congrats, you are a communist!
The race of a voice actor doesn’t matter
This is a one-way ticket to everyone being the dominant race behind the scenes because studios won’t hire other races.
Not really. If an actor is good enough that a role then why would they’re race matter? Acting is all about being something your not so I don’t see a problem with a Asian character being played by a white person or a white person being played by a black person. Also, why would people being hired based on merit be a setback for non-white people? Sounds pretty racist NGL.
How is that true in a way different from other industries? I do think there’s no necessity for the race of the VA to correspond with the race of the character. That might be because I don’t have a good grasp on the arguments otherwise though.
The argument I’ve heard in favor of VAs matching their characters is to avoid laundering white perspectives to minority characters, which would make sense if the VA didn’t have their livelihood on the line when asked to read from a script written by a cishet white man. I feel like requiring a minority do that makes no difference other than providing a cover of legitimacy for the words said.
But as a cishet white male myself, maybe I’m mischaracterizing the argument, I’d be curious. I have asked my (racial minority) wife at one point a couple years back and she wasn’t sure.
It’s a given that there are insensitivities in hirings, but I struggle to imagine a way in which that would be unique to voice acting specifically.
How is that true in a way different from other industries?
It is the same in other industries, the dominant race always has better employment opportunities. It’s not really specific to voice acting.
At least in VA we are able to actually force companies to hire minorities.
I believe they are asking why should it matter the VA race but not the race of the person who wrote the character, or designed the character, or animated the character.
The only reason it’s possible in voice acting is because actors have unions. I’d see nothing wrong with other labor unions demanding that studios hire minorities to write, design, and animate too
We should be expanding the standard, not tearing it down.
Using “themselves” for a non-binary person or unspecified gender is grammatically incorrect.
It’s “themself.” (Unless they’re plural.)
Also, “Latinx” is performative white ally cringe. It’s not pronounceable in Spanish. Use “Latine.” -e is the obvious gender neutral ending.
deleted by creator
Spanish doesn’t have the /ks/ consonant cluster, does it? like the ‘c’ in “acelerar” is pronounced like /s/, not /ks/ like in English “accelerate” right? I can’t think of any words with /ks/, anyway. Consonant clusters are often hard if you didn’t grow up speaking them. Plus the /ks/ in Latinx is final, and final consonant clusters are extra tricky, especially since Spanish words mostly end with vowel (+ {s,r,n}). So I assumed it’d be tricky for Spanish speakers, the way that initial ‘s’ is (this I know firsthand, since my boss always pronounces “stress” as “estrés” even though he’s very fluent in English.)
Maybe it’s gotten easier now that most kids grow up studying English? Idk, I’m really surprised to hear it’s easy to pronounce.
deleted by creator
If my boss has a thick accent doesn’t that mean it’s hard to pronounce for Spanish speakers? Obviously it’s not hard to pronounce English words if you have a good English accent.
deleted by creator
the sh in shadow isn’t /s/ though, it’s /ʃ/. and I’m specifically claiming that no Spanish words start with s+hard consonant. s by itself is fine, for example sonriar obviously, but I claim that no Spanish word starts with ‘st’, ‘sp’, ‘sc’ etc. so you have estudiar, espalda, escuela. in Latin these were stūdium, spātula, schōla. Spanish added an e before the s specifically because it became hard for them to pronounce. this same shift happened in French, hence étude and ecòle, but not in Italian (studio and scuola.)
so I think you have it the wrong way around. the reason Spanish has those initial es in the first place is because it’s hard to pronounce consonant clusters without them.
deleted by creator
Ok but literally all of my Latinx friends say that they use the word Latinx, and it was popularized in South America and it is still used there frequently (though as I understand it, -u is becoming the more fashionable gender-neutral ending these days). I actually think
“Latinx” is performative white ally cringemight be what’s performative cringe.how do they pronounce it? “latinequis?” I haven’t heard -u but I’ll take your word for it.
I didn’t think about it, but they pronounce it like in english, /lætˈinɛks/
-
The big hill in my neighborhood park.
-
Capital Hill
I don’t really know of any other hills or why I would be near them so if I die on a hill it will probably be one of these.
-
It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans
I’ve never heard anyone suggest otherwise. Who are you having this argument with?
deleted by creator
I was curious what they meant, too.
I have wondered if there is some mixing of non-stereotypical gender roles and gender identity. Like, if someone who grew up in the 90s and identified as a “tomboy” might consider themselves transmale or transmasculine if they grew up in the 2020s. But I don’t know enough to make any assumptions about this. Also it’s none of my business, really. It probably depends on the individual and how they see themselves.
(I do know JK Rowling has used a similar complaint in her TERFy ranting, which is why I tend to couch such curiosity in careful wording as best I am able.)
It’s not unusual to say something less controversial than what you wish you could say, so it tracks that someone who wants to say “I’m a boy” would say “I’m a girl who isn’t girly” in a time where the truth is presented as less of an option than it is today. It’s not that trans guys and tomboys are the same thing, it’s that the same label can be either true or a euphemism when applied to different people.
What gets me about the original post is it looks like it’s saying I as an unambiguously masculine man could wear a dress and be called ma’am by a stranger and when I respond “I get why you’d say that but I’m actually a man wearing a dress” then there’s an expectation the stranger might respond “don’t be ridiculous, that’s not a real thing. You’re obviously a trans woman.” I just don’t see this kind of scenario playing out.
The one with eyes
deleted by creator
-
Rainy, damp, cloudy, windy weather is peak weather and beats a “nice sunny day” 80% of the time.
-
Ice cream is winter food and not summer food because of how fatty it is. Popsicles are summer food and not so appealing in the winter.
-
All countries should be making a 100% effort towards eliminating all meat (except that produced by subsistence farmers and the like) in their diets for the sake of the climate. Poverty is not an excuse because vegetarian diets use many many times less resources (which is why wealthy countries eat much more meat).
-
Large wealthy countries should provide free vitamin supplements worldwide to reduce diseases.
-
I could easily die on Mt Washington, NH.
Data is pronounced data and not data.
