Look, I’m all about listening to a woman of color explain how something that might seem innocuous to a white man like me might actually be harmful. I’m willing to accept that there are things I don’t fully understand and I’m willing to take a different perspective if pressed.

But I can’t wrap my head around this one. Elphaba is a fictional character. The movie poster is almost the same as the Broadway playbill. Theatre nerds with photoshop adjusted it as a homage, and understandably so. Hiding beneath the the rim of your hat with a smirk on your face has a much different feel than staring deadpan at the camera. Wicked fans are just expressing their excitement about this movie…

This argument that “covering my eyes erases me and silences my nonverbal communication” just doesn’t check out. It’s clear why people made that specific adjustment, and to suggest that it was a deliberate attack against the actress is just grasping at straws. This isn’t a story about the woman Cynthia Erivo, this is a story about the character Elphaba Thropp, The Wicked Witch of the West. She isn’t the first to play Elphaba, and she won’t be the last. If she’s mad that people see the character she plays and not her, she needs to reconsider her philosophy towards acting, because that kinda the whole point…