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INTEREST: Captain Marvel Actress Brie Larson Cites Sailor Moon as Childhood Role Model

Another celebrity sites an anime character as a role model?

Heishi wrote:

Another celebrity sites an anime character as a role model?

Maybe one day it wont be the usual Dragonball Z/Sailor Moon/Pokemon answer.

Perhaps in one or two more generations, they will be citing KonoSuba and Love Live as their inspirations.

Steve Minecraft wrote:

Heishi wrote: Another celebrity sites an anime character as a role model? Maybe one day it wont be the usual Dragonball Z/Sailor Moon/Pokemon answer.

^^^

Not to mention Brie Larson herself isn't exactly someone that little girls should look up to next to many of her acting colleagues. She's a real "fan the flames" type when it comes to activism, and her acting in Captain Marvel was phoned in.

Oh no!!!! She's a feminist *le gasp* Won't anyone think of the children?

I'm very curious to know your opinion of Captain America himself, Chris Evans, though. Is he a good role model, I wonder?

Oh no!!!! She's a feminist *le gasp* Won't anyone think of the children?

It's also a bit hypocritical given she's listing a Japanese character as inspiring to her, but she herself is a white person. By her own logic, her opinion on Sailor Moon is not important because it wasn't made for her, it was made for the Japanese.

Uhh...so you're saying any girl who's not Japanese can't like Sailor Moon and be inspired by her? That makes no sense. I don't know much about Brie Larson, nor do I want to, but there are thousands, possibly millions of girls around the world who look up to Sailor Moon, of all nationalities. Saying someone can't like a Japanese character because they're not the exact same ethnicity is like saying you don't want an American eating Italian food because they themselves aren't Italian.

I can't speak for other posters, but I think they were trying to point out Brie Larson's comments about not caring about what white men think of the movie A Wrinkle In Time. If she truly thinks opinions of people that are not the target audience of a film or tv show don't matter, then why mention a series not targeted at her? It's not a great agruement, but it does seem to make her statement mean if you don't like it and are not the target audience then your opinion doesn't matter. If you do like it then your opinion is valid because you like it. Negative opinions invalid because reasons, positive opinions always valid.

“About a year ago, I started paying attention to what my press days looked like and the critics reviewing movies, and noticed it appeared to be overwhelmingly white male,” Larson told Marie Claire interviewer Keah Brow.......Moving forward, I decided to make sure my press days were more inclusive.

Wow - you are so right - she's so against white men. Look at her wanting to add more women and people of color! Not replace white men - just add more diverse views.

Isn't that terrible!!

This campaign against Brie Larson would be laughable if it wasn't so sad and helped feed the stereotype the world has of anime fans as socially awkward individuals living in a basement in front of a computer screen.