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"All American"

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This blog post is from June, 2014. It applies today. To Hollywood and all these SWJ bullshitters coming from that space. Here's some straight-up commentary on your truth.


Very rarely do audition opportunities make me angry; this one did. The service that Actors Access provides is not only needed but much appreciated so I hope this commentary doesn't come off as ungrateful or even critical of them in any way. The fault is born in the casting "professionals", movie makers and such that post casting  notifications on this site. In a business where "type" casting is common I'm used to casting criteria that reads "Asian", "African American", "Caucasian". I'm even used to descriptions such as "Model type", "pretty-but not model type"... etc. as if anyone of us, especially women, are really good at deciding if we're "pretty,  or pretty but not model type" at all, but hey, that's the business. And certainly you know if you're "model type" because there are very specific physical parameters defining it: over 5'7", maxed out at 125 lbs., long legs, high cheek bones... we see their faces all over. They aren't necessarily the most attractive people but they are the people that the current fashion industry wants to put its clothing on- therefore they are "model types".

This is the industry I'm in. My skin has grown thick to shallow and blunt descriptions of people that relegate them to little more then colors and shapes. Literally. But colors and shapes are colors and shapes. It's a physical reality. We're curvy or straight. We're a certain amount of feet and a certain amount of inches. We weigh what we weigh. That doesn't get me angry. What does get me angry, what infuriates me because it's so common, are the certain casting notifications that use descriptions such as "girl next door" and, the one that inspired this commentary, "All-American" that make my blood mother fucking BOIL.

Know why?

Because who they HELL are they, is anyone, to define what "next door" and most especially "ALL-AMERICAN" is?

Here's the casting notice that sent me into a rage today; please read it:

Very rarely do audition opportunities make me angry; this one did. The service that Actors Access provides is not only needed but much appreciated so I hope this commentary doesn't come off as ungrateful or even critical of them in any way. The fault is born in the casting "professionals", movie makers and such that post casting  notifications on this site. In a business where "type" casting is common I'm used to casting criteria that reads "Asian", "African American", "Caucasian". I'm even used to descriptions such as "Model type", "pretty-but not model type"... etc. as if anyone of us, especially women, are really good at deciding if we're "pretty,  or pretty but not model type" at all, but hey, that's the business. And certainly you know if you're "model type" because there are very specific physical parameters defining it: over 5'7", maxed out at 125 lbs., long legs, high cheek bones... we see their faces all over. They aren't necessarily the most attractive people but they are the people that the current fashion industry wants to put its clothing on- therefore they are "model types".

This is the industry I'm in. My skin has grown thick to shallow and blunt descriptions of people that relegate them to little more then colors and shapes. Literally. But colors and shapes are colors and shapes. It's a physical reality. We're curvy or straight. We're a certain amount of feet and a certain amount of inches. We weigh what we weigh. That doesn't get me angry. What does get me angry, what infuriates me because it's so common, are the certain casting notifications that use descriptions such as "girl next door" and, the one that inspired this commentary, "All-American" that make my blood mother fucking BOIL.

Know why?

Because who they HELL are they, is anyone, to define what "next door" and most especially "ALL-AMERICAN" is?

Here's the casting notice that sent me into a rage today; please read it:


Certainly not the only, really one of MANY, that use this description "ALL-American" but really mean what the link they include in their posting shows. I've posted it here:



Do these women look "ALL-AMERICAN" to you? Sure. If you define "ALL-AMERICAN" as White Anglo Saxon Protestant (WASP) people with their common features of small nose, thin and tall body and, oh yeah, sparkling WHITE skin. If you want a woman who looks like this for your ad, fine. That's your prerogative. It's your ad, put who you want in it. But don't you dare perpetuate this ignorant and ANTIQUATED way of thinking by defining her as "ALL-AMERICAN". What she is is a CAUCASIAN MODEL TYPE. There you are. Clearly defined and perfectly described. THAT'S what you want? Then THAT'S what you should ask for! But don't you dare, don't even fucking THINK of defining those features as ALL-AMERICAN, because you know what?- they're not.

Most Americans look NOTHING like this. These features are demonstrated by a VERY SMALL group of people who are no more American then any of the rest of us. You are perpetuating ignorance, discrimination and demonstrating stupidity by calling her, or her male counter part, "ALL-AMERICAN", or, it's sister phrase "GIRL NEXT DOOR". Whose next door? Not mine.

Nobody that I grew up around looked like that, whether they were white  or not. A very select MINORITY of kids I grew up around looked like that, but how the hell could their features define what "ALL-AMERICAN" is when they were most certainly

the minority?

Hmmm?

Prejudice.

And discrimination.

And entitlement.

The entitlement of a specific group of people to force their assumed superiority onto the rest of us by telling us that "Americans" look like they do and then there's the rest of us who are...uhhh... I don't know... just being allowed to live here?

"African-Americans"

"Latino-Americans"

"Asian-Americans"

"Italian-Americans"

"Native-Americans"

but not ALL-AMERICAN.

That's reserved for a very specific MINORITY group. The rest of us, no matter where we were born, how long we've lived here, or how much we've done for our communities and country, are just borrowing space.

Including our PRESIDENT?!!


Fuck you.


I'm an American- ALL AMERICAN!

I was born here, raised here and wear the WWII jacket of my father who fought to protect our way of life here.

You know, the way of life that only some people think they have the right to benefit from?

Yeah.

But my father wouldn't have fit into this "ALL-AMERICAN" look either. He had a big Italian nose that doesn't seem to fit in anywhere in Hollywood except for the villain/mobster category. But he sure enough fit into a uniform to fight when he was needed didn't he? Yeah. THEN he was "ALL-AMERICAN" enough.

Can this country stop using it's citizens the way spoiled little brats use their Barbie Dolls?

Please.

It's ridiculous.

So from now on, casting directors world wide, don't perpetuate ignorance and bigotry by calling those features, those very specific and MINORITY features, "ALL-AMERICAN".

They're not.

Most Americans look nothing like that.

Like it or not the hair and skin and eyes of MOST AMERICANS is darker.

We're not as tall or thin.

It's just that simple.

MOST Americans don't look like that. Some Americans most certainly do, but to define that

as the "ALL-AMERICAN" type is simply WRONG.

Can we stop this please, casting professionals world wide?

No matter who you are, if you want a person with the physical features indicated in THESE example photos then please, please define those features for what they are:

NOT "ALL-AMERICAN" but Caucasian, Model-Type Americans.

Pretty and photogenic but

No more "AMERICAN" then the rest of us.




Certainly not the only, really one of MANY, that use this description "ALL-American" but really mean what the link they include in their posting shows. I've posted it here:



Do these women look "ALL-AMERICAN" to you? Sure. If you define "ALL-AMERICAN" as White Anglo Saxon Protestant (WASP) people with their common features of small nose, thin and tall body and, oh yeah, sparkling WHITE skin. If you want a woman who looks like this for your ad, fine. That's your prerogative. It's your ad, put who you want in it. But don't you dare perpetuate this ignorant and ANTIQUATED way of thinking by defining her as "ALL-AMERICAN". What she is is a CAUCASIAN MODEL TYPE. There you are. Clearly defined and perfectly described. THAT'S what you want? Then THAT'S what you should ask for! But don't you dare, don't even fucking THINK of defining those features as ALL-AMERICAN, because you know what?- they're not.

Most Americans look NOTHING like this. These features are demonstrated by a VERY SMALL group of people who are no more American then any of the rest of us. You are perpetuating ignorance, discrimination and demonstrating stupidity by calling her, or her male counter part, "ALL-AMERICAN", or, it's sister phrase "GIRL NEXT DOOR". Whose next door? Not mine.

Nobody that I grew up around looked like that, whether they were white  or not. A very select MINORITY of kids I grew up around looked like that, but how the hell could their features define what "ALL-AMERICAN" is when they were most certainly

the minority?

Hmmm?

Prejudice.

And discrimination.

And entitlement.

The entitlement of a specific group of people to force their assumed superiority onto the rest of us by telling us that "Americans" look like they do and then there's the rest of us who are...uhhh... I don't know... just being allowed to live here?

"African-Americans"

"Latino-Americans"

"Asian-Americans"

"Italian-Americans"

"Native-Americans"

but not ALL-AMERICAN.

That's reserved for a very specific MINORITY group. The rest of us, no matter where we were born, how long we've lived here, or how much we've done for our communities and country, are just borrowing space.

Including our PRESIDENT?!!


Fuck you.


I'm an American- ALL AMERICAN!

I was born here, raised here and wear the WWII jacket of my father who fought to protect our way of life here.

You know, the way of life that only some people think they have the right to benefit from?

Yeah.

But my father wouldn't have fit into this "ALL-AMERICAN" look either. He had a big Italian nose that doesn't seem to fit in anywhere in Hollywood except for the villain/mobster category. But he sure enough fit into a uniform to fight when he was needed didn't he? Yeah. THEN he was "ALL-AMERICAN" enough.

Can this country stop using it's citizens the way spoiled little brats use their Barbie Dolls?

Please.

It's ridiculous.

So from now on, casting directors world wide, don't perpetuate ignorance and bigotry by calling those features, those very specific and MINORITY features, "ALL-AMERICAN".

They're not.

Most Americans look nothing like that.

Like it or not the hair and skin and eyes of MOST AMERICANS is darker.

We're not as tall or thin.

It's just that simple.

MOST Americans don't look like that. Some Americans most certainly do, but to define that

as the "ALL-AMERICAN" type is simply WRONG.

Can we stop this please, casting professionals world wide?

No matter who you are, if you want a person with the physical features indicated in THESE example photos then please, please define those features for what they are:

NOT "ALL-AMERICAN" but Caucasian, Model-Type Americans.

Pretty and photogenic but

No more "AMERICAN" then the rest of us.



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