Grit and Glittr
Currently catching up on Season 2 of Battlestar, Season 2 of Teen Wolf, and Book 2 of Avatar. I liveblog Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Elementary, under read-more and tagged for spoilers.
My fandoms: Angel, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Battlestar Galactica, Being Human (US), Bones, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cardcaptor Sakura, Castle, Coupling, CSI (Las Vegas), Cowboy Bebop, Dexter, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, Dragonriders of Pern, Dresden Files, Elementary, Escaflowne, The Finder, Firefly/Serenity, Game of Thrones, Good Omens, Grimm, Harry Potter, Hawaii Five-0, House, Inception, Legend of the Seeker, Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Marvel movieverse, Merlin, Monk, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Neil Gaiman, Neon Genesis Evangelion, the Old Kingdom, Once Upon a Time, Psych, Quantum Leap, Scrubs, Sherlock, Smash, Stargate SG-1/Atlantis/Universe (RIP), Studio Ghibli, Suits, Supernatural, Teen Wolf, Torchwood, Touch, Warehouse 13
Still need to see: Alphas, Community, Eureka, Fullmetal Alchemist, Justified, Legend of Korra, Lost Girl, Veronica Mars
Nice selection of tweets tagged #whitehistoryclasses
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Recently I was in the shopping mall and I happened to hear a conversation between some people discussing their dislike for this black girl’s hairstyle who had just previously walked by. One of them called the girl’s hairstyle “ghetto”, then followed up by saying “I hate when black girls put all them colors in their hair”. It led me to ask this question, what is ghetto really? Because I have seen similar hairstyles with Caucasian women never labeled as ghetto. The word “ghetto” has a negative stigma attached to it and it seems like ghetto has become synonymous for “Black People”.
What determines whether something is Ghetto or not? Why do some people consider one ghetto and not the other? Is being crafty with the supplies available to me ghetto? Is being creative while black unacceptable? Does the price of something determine whether you should consider it ghetto or not? Or maybe I’m wrong…. Please do share your thoughts….
@hated_logicYou’re exactly right. Just like when Black people improvise, it’s ghetto, but let a middle-to-upper class white person do it, it’s a lifehack, or being thrifty, or economical, or thinking out of the box, or brilliant, or whatever.
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Somebody told a real life woman that her skin was too brown to play an imaginary creature. That basically in the whole fictional world of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, where you have dragons and trolls and talking trees, where you draw the line, where imagination is capped out, no more room, is for a brown hobbit.
Like firery eyeball thing, no problem but don’t even try to imagine a Samoan elf. That shit will blow your mind.
Wyatt Cenac [x] (via modernmonkeys)
Wherein Wyatt Cenac remains perfect, and completely articulates our Mission Statement.
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there just isn’t any excuse
you can’t look at someone’s dark skin
tell them their skin color makes them unattractive
and then say you’re not racist
you can’t do that
it doesn’t work like that
what is you
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setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain:
Because this will always be relevant it seems.
As much as I like this post, and I do think it’s relevant, because people will always have the wrong ideas about racism and what it means and how it affects them, I would like to point out that racism actually doesn’t just apply to non-whites. A dictionary definition of racism is
“1. the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
2. prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief.”
I also want to add that it says nothing about the government or regulated media, and that racism really is just a personal belief. And yes, government issued segregation and the like is racism, it is not the only kind, nor the extent of its reach.
I do think there are misconceptions about racism, but I also think some were made in this post and I just wanted to rant a bit about it, sorry.
I’ve got three questions for you.
WHO wrote those fucking dictionaries and definitions.
WHY is using the dictionary only OK for these/this scenario(s) when using it for ANYTHING else would be seen as asinine and silly?
WHAT do, colonization, imperialism, Manifest Destiny, African Slave Trade, eurocentrism, lack of media representation for POC, the Clark Doll experiment, insanely high amount of POC incarcerated in the US in relation to whites, insane amount of drug arrest for POC compared to whites(who do them way more), and a thousand other things mean to you?
Dear person who wrote that dictionary definition bullshit: http://coloredheartfromcloserange.tumblr.com/post/35566529800/if-i-look-up-carrot-in-the-dictionary-most
Now cut it the fuck out.
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Wow, really? Really?
Are you fucking kidding me?
EXCUSE ME???
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Roxane Gay takes on the racism in Caitlin Moran’s popular new book. Gay goes on, “I am fascinated by the silence surrounding this statement, how people will turn a blind eye to casual racism for the sake of funny feminism.” (via therumpus)
Caitlin Moran is about to have problems.
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About to? She been having them.
(via icecreamsocialistslut)Ummmmm NO.
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I NEED Idris Elba as Bond. PLEASE.
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The costume I am wearing tonight was in no way supposed to be so offensive to so many people…
I took elements of a culture that I liked, that I found attractive, and decided to incorporate them into my outfit tonight - I admire and respect the Native…
Jesus Christ people get a grip. Your way of promoting culture sensitivity is griping about one girl you don’t know somewhere out there who makes a culturally insensitive costume when there are literally hundreds of other things you could be doing instead leading towards the same goal.
Half the people who bitch about culture appropriation and “white privilege” probably don’t even bother to promote being culturally sensitive anywhere besides on their Tumblr page. Complaining about this girl isn’t going to change the way people perceive this topic at all and, at large, is going to do nothing more than make her feel bad. That’s about it.
As bad as it is, there is most likely never going to be a shortage of “Indian” or “Geisha” or “Gypsy” costumes and that’s just something to either come to terms with, or fight the entire country’s collective of Halloween stores and stereotypical mindset on a massive scale. Either way, being an asshole to this girl isn’t going to change anything because she is not the first and most certainly not the last person to parade around during Halloween in this manner.
So cut her some slack. You can tell her how you feel about it, but calling her a bitch and bullying her is terrible and absolutely no way to try and make someone understand your point of view, or even consider it as valid.
Most of the people who decry racist costumes on Tumblr are directly affected by this bullshit. They’re not just doing it for lulz or funsies. These commonplace racist “interpretations” of their cultures and ethnicities HARM them and their communities. If the people wearing these racist outfits really cared so much about “the Native American culture” (news flash there is not just ONE) they “admire” they could better spend their time, gee, LISTENING to Native Americans, American Indians and First Nations people when they say how much this racist appropriation HURTS them.
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Absolutely none, nil, zero.
Art, social commentary, academic inquiry, didn’t know it was fucked up, weren’t trying to be offensive?
I don’t give a fuck.
It’s not okay. It will never be okay. Just stop.
Full-stop.
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Dear World,
Art, fashion, and music can all be racist.
Sincerely,
A black person who is sick of your shit.
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STOP WEARING HEAD DRESSES WHITE PEOPLE!
The legacy of residential schools in this part of the world is such that First Nations people were denied the right legally, by force and through social and cultural coercion to wear headdresses, topractice their spiritualities, to speak their languages. It still happens today. Tens of thousands of children were forced into residential schools. The last of these residential schools closed in 1988. More than 50% of First Nations children, who attended those residential schools, were forcefully taken from home, not allowed to speak their languages, and subjected to extreme emotional, physical and sexual abuse. The legacy of this continues today.
As someone with Arawak heritage, who is still trying to piece together some semblance of our cultural history and practices, it is so offensive when the people who continue to benefit the most from the genocide, and displacement of First Nations people can just make us all into caricatures are wear ‘headresses’ and dress up as Pocahontas, and contribute to the hypersexualization of First Nations womyn who are assaulted at 3 - 5 times the rate of the national average without even being required to learn literally anything about the cultures that you trying on while you prance about on stage like an asshat. Just stop doing this right now.
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So let’s talk about this idea that racist depictions in the media is a thing of the past for black people again. Or not. People could just try looking shit up.
Jones Soda, now I can’t enjoy you because your marketing team is fucking racist.
Let’s just talk about these ads, though.
Ads don’t just come out and people who work there get shocked and, “Oh nooooooooooo! We didn’t mean toooooooo!!”
Ads go through a series of long processes in order to get out there. They go through creation, then they go to lawyers, then they go through all sorts of trials like approval, effectiveness, blah blah blah
Then they come to us consumers.
And
just
how
does
that
happen
Ah. Well then. Fuck you, Jones. I hope your company goes down the shit hole like your morals obviously have.
I’m sorry but the Jones ad is a parody of racism, not a parody of the races depicted. It’s a parody of our obsessiveness with political correctness rather than a parody of someone’s race.. and it’s showing how little names matter; How the words “black”, “asian”, “latino” mean next to nothing, and the depictions are still in our minds when in realty, they should be gone.
TL;DR:
It’s making fun of that fact that people still think “Asian” when they see the little yellow man, and “Black” when they see the little blackface guy. We should be less racist than that, and simply see a cute little black cartoon figure rather than a characterized black man. -.-
Acknowledging racism is not racist itself, nor “just as bad” as racism. These images don’t come from nowhere. They have a long history of state- and capitalism-sponsored racism as is shown by the other ads in the same damn post. It’s not just a “cute cartoon character.” You can’t divorce the image from its history or the viewer’s knowledge. And in fact that is part of the legacy and effects of racism and white supremacy—white people get to pretend it’s all fine and that people of color are just being too sensitive and ignore all of that history and contemporary pain.
Kindly educate yourself.