The important difference being, that Rue is explicitly described as black in the books :) (rather than it being implicit in the name, as with Cho Chang).
Tom On 30 March 2013 17:24, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote: > On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:29:11 -0400 > Joseph Reagle <joseph.2...@reagle.org> wrote: > > > Interesting, this reminds me of the ignorant tweeps who believed > > (despite the text) that the character Rue in *Hunger Games* was white > > and asked "Why is Rue Black?" in the movie. > > > > Do folks know of other examples of this? > > > > Well, admittedly, I find it hard to visualise characters based on their > descriptions in the text. For example, I didn't picture > http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Cho_Chang as belonging to Asian descent > necessarily, even though I presumed she may have been. Then I saw her as > Asian > in one of the Harry Potter films. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > > On 03/30/2013 03:52 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: > > > Did anyone see this? A popular blogger on Science (with more than 4 > > > million followers) is a woman. The woman herself, Elise Andrew, had no > > > idea it was a secret, and she was "outed" when she announced her > > > twitter account featuring a picture of herself. Apparently the bias > > > occurred because of the swear word on her facebook page which made > > > readers assume she was a man. Interesting conclusion! This is a > > > facebook hype that deserves a WP page, no? > > > > > > article is here: > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/us-news-blog/2013/mar/20/i-love-science-woman-facbook > > > facebook page here: > > > http://www.facebook.com/IFeakingLoveScience > > > The TV interview with Dr. Michio Kaku on CBS morning show is here: > > > http://cbsn.ws/109mAEL > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gendergap mailing list > > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ > > <ew73> VB.NET is all of the fun of enforced privacy OO with all of the > power > of BASIC. — Freenode’s #perl > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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