S1 Ep1: Hire Us @ Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson !!!
Two Idiot Girls
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4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Are you curious what 2 idiot girls think of Polynesian representation in mainstream media???? Because I know I am. Today we dive into how our community has been represented in the past, present and (hopefully better) in the future when it comes to movies. Because what's the point of being Samoan if "The Rock" doesn't play at least 1 character in all 5 movies that represent you in Hollywood?
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, all right y'all |
| 0:04.0 | y'all. |
| 0:05.0 | S- Y'all. |
| 0:07.0 | Y'all, just say everyone. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm going to say friends. |
| 0:12.0 | Okay. Hello friends and welcome to the first episode of two idiot girls. |
| 0:18.0 | Woo! I wish we had sound effects so I could play. one day. Well my name is Dason and my pronouns are she her and hers and I'm 27 |
| 0:40.2 | Okay, my name is Drew and my pronouns are she, her and hers also and I'm 25. Woo-hoo. |
| 0:41.2 | And we're two idiot girls sisters who just want to talk about stuff and make people laugh. |
| 0:48.0 | Pretty much. |
| 0:50.0 | So we'll go straight into today's topic. So today we're going to be talking about |
| 0:55.1 | portrayals of Pacific Islander culture in media specifically. So just a little |
| 1:00.4 | backstory on both of us. We're both three-fourths Samwin and one-fourth Irish. We know who |
| 1:08.1 | the rock is and that's pretty much the only representation of us in real media. |
| 1:13.6 | But today we're going to be going over three different movies |
| 1:16.6 | so that everyone's relatively familiar with. |
| 1:20.4 | To talk about how our culture is represented and things of that nature. |
| 1:25.0 | Do you want to add anything? |
| 1:27.0 | No, I think you pretty much covered it. |
| 1:29.5 | I guess just how stereotypes and tropes make their way into media a lot, especially with Pacific Island or culture. |
| 1:39.5 | So there's a real fetishization, I think Polynesian people so yeah gonna break that |
| 1:45.2 | down today in mainstream media yeah I think another point to add to is that |
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