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Chapter 1: What is Cynthia Erivo's claim about racism in her portrayal?
Guys, Cynthia Erivo is crying racism. Yes, again. Let's talk about it. Guys, before we get into today's video, please like and subscribe. Today we're talking about Cynthia Erivo of Wicked Stardom. Now she played Alphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, alongside Ariana Grande's Glinda.
This was really her true rise to stardom, although she'd been in many other projects before and had a very overwhelming career on Broadway and probably will continue to. But now she's speaking about a lot of the treatment that she received during the Wicked Press Tour and the way in which she was labeled Ariana Grande's sort of masculine bodyguard.
And we'll talk about this and why she may have been labeled this way. She says it's because of race. I think that we've really come to terms with the insidious nature of how we view black women. And I'm sure people will read this and think, oh, for goodness sake, it's not about that. But it is because that's what was being made fun of. It was my physique.
Chapter 2: How did Cynthia Erivo's role in Wicked contribute to her rise to fame?
It was my shape. It was the fact that I was bald. It was about what I looked like. And because of that, there was this assumption that I was bigger than my co-star, and so I had to be controlling and protective, and that was my role. I would hazard a guess that it would not have been the same if it had been the other way around.
Now, she was widely talked about as being Ariana Grande's sort of controlling bodyguard during her time in the Wicked Press tour. And I think it's more so because they had a very strange dynamic with one another. And the reality is that Cynthia Erivo does appear quite masculine alongside Ariana Grande or next to Ariana Grande. And I think that's something that we cannot forget.
We also can't forget that Cynthia Erivo does have a history of crying racism. I'm going to bring up, of course, the Wicked Poster controversy. Okay, so right here is the Wicked poster for Broadway. A fan took the new Wicked poster and was like, you know what? I see this, I'm gonna edit it like the Broadway poster. And that involves covering Cynthia Erivo's eyes. Cynthia Erivo saw this fan edit
a fan by the way let's emphasize that and posted it online and said this is the wildest most offensive thing i have seen uh equal to that awful ai of us fighting equal to people posing the question is your p word green none of this is funny none of it is cute it degrades me it degrades us the original poster is an illustration i am a real life human being who chose to look right down the barrel of the camera to you the viewer
Chapter 3: What treatment did Cynthia Erivo experience during the Wicked Press Tour?
because without words, we communicate with our eyes. Our poster is an homage, not an imitation. To edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me. And that is just deeply hurtful. Little bit dramatic. And again, is sort of hearkening back to some of the common complaints that people make in regard to racism on these particular subjects.
And she's sort of insinuating that because she's a black woman who's staring right down the barrel of the camera, somebody felt the need to erase that and thus erase her and her presence. So this is not the first time we've gotten racism allegations from Cynthia Erivo. Now let's talk about whether or not that's true. Did she appear masculine during this press tour?
And I can't believe I'm even having to talk about this. But the answer is yes. So maybe we don't jump to a racism allegation or jump to this idea that it's because we're Black when in reality there are other explanations for why this was taking place with her.
And it's not to justify bullying or the way in which people were making caricatures of her in cartoons and calling her all types of different names. It's just to say it didn't happen because you happen to be a Black woman. Now this is the same black woman who posed for GQ's Man of the Year. And let's take a look at this.
This is, yes, feminine in some ways, but a very masculine portrayal of a woman on GQ's Man of the Year cover. And at the time, both her and Ariana were super proud of this being the reality. Let's watch the clip. GQ Man of the Year.
So you decided to position yourself with a masculine framework in mind and you decided to put that out to the world and you felt honored by that reality and now you're saying the reason that people are referring to you as in such a masculine way is because you're a black woman. I don't get it.
We also got moments like this on the press tour, which everybody has seen this meme of the fingers and the hand. This is a very feminine thing to be doing. This is a very masculine energy to be. receiving it in. I think it's okay to say that. You have photographs like this one, who's in the feminine position here and who's in the masculine position here.
I think it's abundantly clear that Cynthia is taking on the masculine role. And then of course you have the many videos that went viral of these two. And of course we should mention
that ariana grande likes to present herself in a particularly feminine way like an uber feminine almost infantilized feminine way so any woman sitting across from her is probably going to come off a little bit more masculine than she is but i think cynthia arevo tends to lean way more on the masculine side than other women do. And that is okay. It's okay to present that way. Let's watch.
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Chapter 4: What was the controversy surrounding the Wicked poster?
No, I think it's because Ariana Grande talks like this. and presents very femininely. And I think it's because Cynthia Erivo literally jumped into a situation where there were security guards and male ones at that to protect Ariana Grande. The reason we associate protection with masculinity is because that's typically what men do. And that's okay.
Like, let's just be straightforward with the conversation. And if a white woman was acting in the same way that Cynthia Erivo was acting, she'd get the same label Two. One more TikTok before we close out.
The closer to blackness or the darker your skin, the more connected to masculinity you are in society. And that happens with femmes, too. Like, people, like, look at what's happening with Wicked, Cynthia.
With Cynthia, yeah.
Like, how, like, they're both, in my view, very feminine women. Like, her and, you know, Ariana Grande. But everyone's like, ooh, she's the butch because she's, like, protected. And meanwhile, in her actual relationship, like, she's the femme. She's the femme. Yeah.
Like, she's in, like, a traditional stud now that's her lesbian relationship now just because you're the more feminine one of your relationship doesn't mean that next to ariana grande you wouldn't be the more masculine one i'd be the more masculine one next to ariana grande can we be so
can we please can we please stop it guys just stop it gets him out um dynamic it's just the blackness that makes it look aggressive absolutely masculine with studs there's like even more obviously like that expectation that you should take on those roles and i think for a lot of like women or femmes who are coming from relationships where they're dating men this start is like a replacement for that it's like man light sorry a lot of like femmes are attracted to like
toxicity in that way and they encourage it in you. Like the toxic masculinity. Yeah, like the toxic masculinity.
I think we've closed the case on this one. I don't know what else can truly be said about this. I don't think it has anything to do with her being Black. I don't think it has anything to do with racism or discrimination or putting Black women in a particularly masculine category as there are plenty of feminine presenting. hyper feminine, I mean, black women all over the world.
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