me trying to make friends: so do you wanna order a pizza and psychoanalyze video game characters with me this weekend
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“I had done so many roles as the Seniorita, the Japanese girl, the Chinese girl, and the Hawaiian gal, that when I left New York, everyone told me I’d be typecast when I got to Hollywood. So I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to be typed!’
But it was the sci-fi world where I wasn’t hired just for my ethnicity. In fact, when I read the script for ‘Mirror, Mirror’ and saw the part they had written for Marlena, I remember thinking, ‘Wow, why did they ask me to do this?’ There was nothing ethnic about it; there was no accent; she was just a female, and I thought that was so very interesting that they chose someone of my type to play her.
It was very exciting that Gene Roddenberry had created a show that had those kind of roles - not only were we not hired based on our ethnicity, but the roles were powerful. I mean, in 1967, for a woman to have that kind of power, as with Marlena, where with just one little push of the button she could kill.
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I had done so many roles as the Seniorita, the Japanese girl, the Chinese girl, and the Hawaiian gal, that when I left New York, everyone told me I’d be typecast when I got to Hollywood. So I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to be typed!’
But it was the sci-fi world where I wasn’t hired just for my ethnicity. In fact, when I read the script for ‘Mirror, Mirror’ and saw the part they had written for Marlena, I remember thinking, ‘Wow, why did they ask me to do this?’ There was nothing ethnic about it; there was no accent; she was just a female, and I thought that was so very interesting that they chose someone of my type to play her.
It was very exciting that Gene Roddenberry had created a show that had those kind of roles - not only were we not hired based on our ethnicity, but the roles were powerful. I mean, in 1967, for a woman to have that kind of power, as with Marlena, where with just one little push of the button she could kill.
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- BarBara Luna (Marlena Moreau in “Mirror, Mirror”), quoted in Marc Cushman’s These Are the Voyages: TOS, Season 2. (via trekkiefeminist)
i cannot believe people have followed me for years
#god bless your souls #i’ve been through a lot of weird intense obsessions
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“As early as the 1920s, researchers giving IQ tests to non-Westerners realized that any test of intelligence is strongly, if subtly, imbued with cultural biases… Samoans, when given a test requiring them to trace a route form point A to point B, often chose not the most direct route (the “correct” answer), but rather the most aesthetically pleasing one. Australian aborigines find it difficult to understand why a friend would ask them to solve a difficult puzzle and not help them with it. Indeed, the assumption that one must provide answers alone, without assistance from those who are older and wiser, is a statement about the culture-bound view of intelligence. Certainly the smartest thing to do, when face with a difficult problem, is to seek the advice of more experienced relatives and friends!”
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Jonathan Marks - Anthropology and the Bell Curve (via mgrable)
When I was getting my Masters in Education, I was told the story of how Alaska had to request the lower 48 for certain questions on the SAT and CAT tests to be changed, basically every test needs to be ‘Alaskanized’.
Because we don’t know what Lobster are.
No joke- the first instance of them noticing was when they had a question about Lobster in Maine in the math section, and pretty much no one in the bush communities knew what a lobster was, and you can’t ask questions during those tests like ‘WTF is a lobster??’ and it sort of doesn’t come up in a lot of general education, you’d be lucky to find imported lobster in a store in AK. But all these kids got these answers wrong on these tests because some council somewhere thinks that all education and cultural teaching styles should be and are universal.
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There are characters whose death made you sad and then there are characters whose death made you pretend it never happened
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