Director Nicolas Winding Refn’s reasoning behind...

Director Nicolas Winding Refn’s reasoning behind this change was that Mulligan seemed more like, “the sort of person you’d want to protect.

On why Carey Mulligan was cast in Drive, instead of a Latina woman. - Afro Punk

Several icky things here

The idea that women have to be protected by men
The idea that only white women deserve to be protected by men

The Strong Woman Of Color Trope is really racist. It’s the idea that white women are pure and worth more and harmed by the patriarchy in much more damaging ways than WOC. We think that WOC, because they are also oppressed due to their race, are somehow more equipped to deal with hardships.

WOC and womanists have often cited that one of their contentions with white feminism is that when we talk about chivalry from our menfolk as a harmful force they cannot empathize. While white women can coo over the “romantic” chivalry of the antebellum South with hoop skirts Black women remember a time when these chivalrous white men (and the white women who benefit from racism) treated them like less-than human.

Basically, while the fragile woman trope is really destructive it’s especially destructive when we exclude WOC from being allowed to have moments of fragility.

(via friendlyangryfeminist) Sunday Feb 26 @ 01:33pm 26 notes
reblogged from friendlyangryfeminist
originally posted by friendlyangryfeminist