The Power of Twitter Showcased at the Oscars: #OscarsSoWhite, #YesAllWomen,...
Twitter has changed the way news is reported. The Black Lives Matter movement has been particularly successful in raising awareness for cases of police brutality that generally would have been...
View ArticleHow Hollywood is Foretelling the Future While Still Falling on the Wrong Side...
No one wants to be “on the wrong side of history”. No one wants to be wrong, period, and even those of us who raise their hackles at being described as “progressive” fear that those words, when leveled...
View Article“You Might as Well Have [insert character here] Be [insert 2-4 minority types...
One of the most common adages on the internet is “don’t read the comments”. While this global network that we’re all currently using [unless you somehow managed to snag a printout of this post] has...
View ArticleWhy TF2 Doesn’t Have Female Characters [And Overwatch Does]
I’ve played 31 hours of Overwatch to date. Now that pales in comparison to the 322 I’ve clocked on Team Fortress 2 [often shortened to TF2], but the former has only been out since late May and I’ve had...
View ArticleThe Magnificent Seven vs. The Historical Negationism of Westerns
Yesterday marked the North American premiere of The Magnificent Seven, a movie that I’ve been looking forward to ever since I saw the trailer some months back. The reason for that is far more simple...
View ArticleAsian Comic Book Fan Watches Doctor Strange…: An Addendum
Even though I wrote a little over a thousand words last week on my experiences with Doctor Strange [required reading for this blog post] there were a couple of additional criticisms I wanted to level...
View ArticleFor Your Consideration: Ned Leeds/Ganke in the Spider-Man: Homecoming Trailer
Welcome to another installment of “For Your Consideration”, every one of which thus far has covered comic book and video game movies [and this week’s is no exception]. The point of this particular...
View Article#Justice4Revian: The State of Asian Contestants on The Bachelor
As I write this #BachelorNation, millions of viewers strong, is wrapping up the second episode of the 23rd season of The Bachelor. Having said that, let’s cut to the chase: I’m watching The Bachelor...
View ArticleLooking for Love as an ABC on ABC: Revian Chang’s Bachelor Experience
On January 7th, 2019, at 8 PM (7 PM Central), ABC premiered the 23rd season of perennial reality TV favourite The Bachelor. Starring ex-NFL tight end Colton Underwood, this latest installment also...
View ArticleDo People of Colour Belong in Middle-earth?
Bettenridge’s law of headlines dictates that “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” In the case of whether or not J.R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth is a fantasy land...
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