The Hunger Games Is Making Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars So Can We Stop Pretending That Female-Led Action Movies Don’t Make Money And Make A Goddamn Wonder Woman Movie Yet: A Book By Me
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My favorite thing is when people say peeta forced katniss to have kids it’s like…. Are we talking about the same Katniss here??? Katniss Everdeen?? Our fuckin Katniss Everdeen??? Forced ??? Trust me if katniss didnt want kids katniss would not have any fuckin kids do u even know her????? lil baby bunny peeta forcing her??? are we bein for real??? this is a real argument???
You know, Peeta’s unconventional masculinity is as relevant for traditional gender subversion in The Hunger Games as Katniss’s unconventional femininity.
It’s a bit annoying to see everyone and their mother praising Katniss for being such a unique action female hero, and then hearing those same people making fun of Peeta for being a weakling and a ‘sissy’.
Yes, Peeta paints sunsets and bakes cookies and frosts cakes. He is sometimes/usually unarmed and needs Katniss’s protection. He needs saving at several points across the story, and eventually he is captured and needs rescuing.
So what? Just as Katniss can be dextrous at archery, an assassin and a leader in combat, while retaining her kindness, humanity and selflessness, Peeta can paint, bake, and not be a traditional male action hero and still be the male lead and romantic hero of the story. He can still be sexually alluring for Katniss and capable of extremely heroic actions, while needing rescue and baking cakes.
And if you can’t see how relevant it is for this story and for a younger generation to understand that traditional and media-approved masculinity is also a social construct/imposition, as restrictive and reactionary as enforced traditional femininity can be, then the joke’s on you.
I think a huge point that people are missing about this whole “Katniss being colored” thing is that they did in fact tan Jennifer Lawrence for the movie and darkened her hair. That means the production did consider olive skin as tan and still refused to cast a colored person as the role of Katniss and THATS what makes me mad.
Katniss is also described as having grey/blue eyes though, right? Generally those who have olive skin and light eyes tend to be of Mediterranean descent. But having the casting be restricted to Caucasian is pretty prejudiced, I didn’t hear about that until now.
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there’s genetically engineered wolves with human faces and magic science burn medicine
i think it’s conceivable for katniss to be a girl of color
Also, there’s this famous picture of an Afghan girl named Sharbat Gula from a 1985 cover of National Geographic:
Clearly, dark skin and light eyes can go together.
But could Katniss be a woman of color or of mixed race?
Katniss comes from District 12, which roughly corresponds to the coal country of Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.
Ever hear of the Melungeon?
They’re a group of people of mixed race in the Cumberland Gap area—which is East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and Western Kentucky. Traditionally they were viewed as mixtures of white, black and Native American; recent DNA evidence suggests that they’re primarily biracial. There are a lot of similar groups, too.
You can take a look at photos of Melungeon people here. There’s a huge range in appearance. Some are look like dark-skinned blacks; others, like light-skinned ones. Some look Latino or Italian. Some have dark skin but light eyes. Some look white.
And the variations can occur within a single family. Take a look at four generations of the Ramey family of Tennessee.
It looks like Katniss—with her dark hair, olive skin and light eyes—could be biracial or triracial. The possibility, at least, exists.
