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swimmingwithfish · 2 years

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Okay you do not understand how seen butterfly soup made me feel as a Tamilan. We get barely any representation in Western media, and a lot of kollywood/bollywood dubs cast light-skinned actors to play characters (also there isn’t much stuff about teenagers in kollywood). But then there’s butterfly soup, a video game no less, and it has one of their main character as a Tamilan. And she speaks tamil and she looks like me and sure, we may not be the exact same person but god does she make me feel so represented and so valid and so deserving of it. We need more representation of South Asians - and not just Indians who speak Hindi. I’m talking about those from Sri Lanka and Gujarat and Karnataka and Kerela and Tamil Nadu. I’m talking about all those South Asians who have to cling onto representation of North Indians when their South Indian culture is so very different. I’m talking about the people who don’t actually understand the Punjabi or Hindi spoken in the TV show or movie even though their South Asain. I’m talking about the people who have only ever eaten pani puri like twice in their life. I’m talking about the people who haven’t watched Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham but have seen Bahubali in it’s original language of Telegu. I love and will always respect and be grateful and proud of South Asian representation but it’s time to start branching out. It’s time to look at all the different cultures and regions and people of South Asia, and not just say “Oh we’ve put in a character that’s speaks Hindi, South Asian representation done.” It’s the 21st century and South Asians are tired of being generalised and not getting the representation they deserve. I shouldn’t have to cling onto a video game to feel seen. I shouldn’t have to dig and search to find something that shows South Asians exist in Western Spaces. It should be there, waiting for me.

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ghostly-toby · 3 years

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Guys!! Great news!!! BLM is back on trending!!! Now we have to get Stop Asian Hate back up there too!

Here’s a casual reminder that just because most protests were a year ago Black Lives always have, and always will Matter.

Gay Black Lives Matter

Lesbian Black Lives Matter

Disabled Black Lives Matter

Mspec Black Lives Matter

Transgender Black Lives Matter

Aspec Black Lives Matter

Nonbinary Black Lives Matter

All Black Lives Matter.

They always have, they always will.

Briana Taylor and other black people wrongfully murdered have still not gotten their justice. Think this through. The year we’ve been advocating and we still hardly got anything for true justice and equality. The world still does not seem to value black lives.

AND Stop Asian Hate.

Asian people are being heavily mistreated on such a horrible level, especially now with Covid-19. People have been using it as an excuse to be racist towards more specifically Asain POC. The amount of Asain people being affected by these violent acts of racism that others are putting out should be illegal.

To the Asain person reading this,

You are loved

You are worthy

Your culture is not a fetish

You are so beautiful and unique and amazing

And while we’re on this topic, Protect Muslim Lives!!! The concentration camps in China are still!!! There!!! Islamophobia is another horrible thing that’s been spreading around recently!! LITERALLY CONCENTRATION CAMPS ARE UP WHERE THEY ARE FORCING MUSLIMS TO GO AGAINST THEIR RELIGION AND DOING SO MANY UNSPEAKABLE THINGS!!!

To the Muslim person reading this,

Allah loves you

You are such an amazing follower. I believe he appreciates you more than you know

You are wonderful

You are beautiful

You are not a burden

JUST BECAUSE THESE TOPICS ARE NO LONGER “TRENDING” DOESNT MEAN THE INTERNET SHOULD NOT CARE!!! THESE ARE IMPORTANT TOPICS WHICH ARE NOW BEING LOOKED OVER. DO BETTER.

Also, if I said anything bad, or spread any wrong information, let me know please! I’m a white Christian person, so I’m not 100% sure I got all of the Muslim and POC related topics 100% correct. If I said anything wrong, it will be fixed! Thank you :)

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mellometal · 3 years

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gurrrrrrl i love your dhar mann posts. ive seen some youtubers call him out for cringe but you are the only one who calls out his racism. if you watch his videos you usually see black kids being portrayed as bullies to the white ones or asains being portrayed as smart. not to mention the portrayal of women - their eithr housewives-esque women submissive to their husbands or 'bitchy' sluts that act spoiled, and are usually punished for not liking the boy...it just reads like a terrible incel fanfiction

Hello, anon! Thank you for sending this in. ^.^

There are definitely more people who do call out his racism in those videos, and they did this before I called him out on it, so I'm not the only one. (Did you mean on here or in general?)

Being a white woman, I will never know what BIPOC or AAPI go through on a daily basis. What they go through in general is horrible and I wouldn't wish that on anyone. That doesn't stop me from educating myself about what they go through, reading up on their histories, sharing things about BIPOC and AAPI historical figures and their impacts on the world, supporting BIPOC and AAPI creators, speaking out against racism, signing petitions, sharing resources with people who may need them, and calling out racism in general.

His videos with disabled people are pretty ableist too, which is what really infuriated me, as a disabled woman who works with disabled people for a living. The video he made about Autism Spectrum Disorder especially was so insulting, filled with misinformation, and so ableist, that it felt like he was treating being autistic like it was a bad thing. It's not a bad thing to be autistic. I'm autistic. I was diagnosed when I was sixteen (when it was still referred to as A$p3rg3r'$ $yndr0m3), but never was open about it until this year. That kind of rhetoric was one of the factors that made me mask for seven years.

A lot of times, he doesn't cast a physically disabled actor for physically disabled characters. He just gives a couple of the child actors crutches. This is a reoccurring thing in the entertainment industry as a whole. Glee is another example of an able-bodied actor being cast as a physically disabled character. (I hate that show for a plethora of reasons. The fact they didn't bother to cast a physically disabled actor for the role of a physically disabled character is one of them.) I very rarely see physically disabled actors in media. Specifically, younger physically disabled actors. That needs to change. At least for live-action media. I'm sure the physically disabled kids would be happy to see actors who are like them. I've seen a lot of physically disabled characters in cartoons, which is great! I encourage them to make more physically disabled characters in cartoons. I don't see too many in anime either, so hopefully that'll change too.

The way Dhar Mann portrays BIPOC and AAPI in general makes me sick looking at it. He either paints black people as total damsels in distress or makes them big bullies. When Karen, the racist and ableist soccer mom™️ is being racist towards her son's friend and assuming the worst of him, it turns out that kid has rich parents! (Totally unrealistic too.) She goes on the whole, "I'm sorry for judging you before I got to know you!" shit instead of saying, "Hey, I'm sorry for being a racist bigot towards you and believing in gross stereotypes about black people."

Painting black people as "thugs" who all are in gangs and steal stuff is so incorrect. I'm sure that people who think like this get their pseudo education from watching movies with black people in them or rap music and get the impression that they're all like that. Like, no. Don't believe everything you see on the big screen. Not to mention how they targeted a black kid as a suspect for drugs in a video, when the real suspect turned out to be a white kid. They do that in real life A LOT. It's nauseating.

Selling drugs and stuff isn't an inherently bad thing. Not ideal, but some people don't exactly have any other choice except to sell drugs. Doing drugs doesn't mean you're a bad person. That kind of stuff hits home for me. Being brought up by parents who both did drugs, being around people who do drugs, and having friends who do drugs, I don't see people who do drugs as inherently bad people. They need to be treated with decency and like human beings, not like aggressive animals.

The whole "Asians are geniuses" stereotype is damaging. It's bad enough that Asians as a whole have all these ridiculous expectations put on them. Pretty gross and harmful stereotypes! Saying that all Asians are geniuses isn't a compliment to them. Yes, you can praise their work all you want, but don't treat them like they're attractions at a zoo. They're not robots. They're real human beings with their own thoughts, opinions, feelings, emotions, families, friends, jobs, issues, etc.

A YouTuber named Jarvis Johnson is an example of a person calling out Dhar Mann's racism in his videos. If you want to see them through a black person's perspective, definitely check Jarvis out. He's a great content creator and he definitely deserves more subscribers.

Oh my god, don't even get me started on the "sugar daddy" videos. There are so many of them, I don't know where to begin with tearing them apart. They're so BAD. Dhar Mann paints almost all of his so-called "morals" at the end of his videos with "Don't judge a book by its cover! uwu" instead of actually addressing the real issues in the video. He never bothers to address how people think money can buy you happiness. I mean, it can, to an extent, but only so much.

He recently made a video about a gay teenage boy in sports, his coach was being all homophobic, kicked him off the team, etc. First off, if that happened in real life, that school AND the coach would get sued for discrimination and the coach would most likely lose their job.

The fatphobia in some of his videos is fucking gross too, speaking as a bigger woman. One of the child actors was literally put in a fat suit in a "flashback". I mean, they do have fat actors. They have fat child actors too. Wouldn't it make sense to hire fat actors for fat characters? He's done that for another video he made about a girl getting bullied for her weight. (Fat suits are fatphobic.)

I feel bad for all the actors in those videos. I'm sure none of them vibe with the scripts. I hope they actually get roles in better things.

#anon #answered #dhar mann talk #tw racial violence mention #tw racism mention #tw ableism mention #tw homophobia mention #tw fatphobia mention #tw drug mention #dhar mann will live to regret his decision to make these fucked up cringe videos #dhar mann will live to regret his decision uwu #please stop supporting dhar mann #those actors deserve better #dhar mann is a piece of human garbage #tw dhar mann

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tykinkytg · 4 years

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Day 2645

I just started thinking about my time in the Marine Corps. I immediately get fed up my heart rates breaking records and all I'm doing is imagining yelling at all the people who treated my Marines like shit. The hick who harassed the asain kid to the point of thoughts of suicide. Which was confided in me and I betrayed his trust by speaking to other senior personal. Those senior personal told the the harraser that his victim had come forward and after I was gone from the unit the kid's life became hell. Still has never spoken to me since. I was the only thing holding back that fuck. He never deserved how he was treated. Or the black kid who with the entire platoon around was told to smile when they turned off the lights. All that could be seen were his teeth. The hispanic sergeant rolled out of his chair laughing. I approached the Marine afterwards offering to bring it up the chain but he knew better and told me not too because something very similar to what had happened to the asian kid would have happened to him. Or the Marine that got pregnant and was harassed for it. Sergeants told the Marines to shun her for whatever goddamn reason. Again she fell under my wing she broke the news to me first that was pregnant and again asked me to not tell anyone. I didn't but urged her that no reprisal could come of it. Oh boy was I wrong. She had the kid and it's a beautiful child I hope she's doing well now.

It's nice to vent here I was rolling around in bed freaking out thinking about this stuff.

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jynwalker · 4 years

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honestly this may just be me being picky but ive kind of been bothered by something in the art of multiple fandoms and i need to get it off my chest :/

tw: racism, colorism (mentioned)

this isnt hate at all towards anybody’s art styles, or personal preferences, headcanons or anything at all. everyone is their own person and can do what they want, but this is personally hurtful to me so i wanted to share it anyways.

for all of you that don’t know me, im half mexican, half white. ive been told im too white to be mexican, and told im too mexican to be white. my (white) grandmother didn’t want me and my sibling speaking spanish or generally being ‘wetbacks’ around her. there weren’t a whole lot of mexican people in the books at this time (i didnt watch tv outside of like, spongebob), and my (mexican) father was in prison for a lot of my late primary and elementary school years, so i was already disconnected from my mexican family physically, & with my grandmothers horrible treatment and racism i became even more disconnected. most of my friends even knew i was mexican until i had known them for years, when i realized that i didnt need to be ashamed of the culture i was trying to ignore, and i began embracing it again. if i had seen less white people and more hispanic people in all of the books and movies i was watching, i wouldnt have tried so hard to forget who i am.

so when i see characters in my favorite book series and tv shows who are either confirmed or heavily implied to be hispanic or latino, i get really excited. and when i join the online fandom, i get really excited too. so its really quite disappointing to find out that tons of the artists making beautiful art of these characters... dont really know how to draw hispanic or latino characters. it makes me really sad to see that the representation that i thought i was getting isn’t really there in the fandom spaces.

theyre often not truly brown, just tan, and they typically dont have latino/hispanic features, overall they look nothing like their actual race; im not saying theres a specific way to look like a hispanic or latino person, because we all look different, but the representation of the one mexican character in a primarily white book series is really important to me! i wanted so badly to not be mixed when i was younger, and a lot of it was because i wasn’t seeing any characters like me in mainstream media. but its not really representation if the character just looks like a tan white person. i see lots of people in these same fandoms that im in spend tons of time learning how to draw african and asain features and skintones, yet spend zero time and effort on giving us hispanic and latino people features that arent eurocentric, white features.

overall, the point of this post is that its really hurtful to see my people be so poorly represented, and all i ask of you artists, and even the writers, is to learn about hispanic people. learn about latino people. we’re not just darker white people, we’re poc too, and we deserve the same energy you devote to respecting other poc identities. please.

#this will probably be edited later so that i makes more sense bc im pretty emotional right now but for the love of god dont whitewash #tl;dr - pls stop giving canon hispanic/latino characters such eurocentric features we arent white #we’re literally all over america how do yall not know what we look like smh #kinda really personal post #kinda a rant #my post #tw racism #racism #misrepresentation #latino people deserve representation too #tw me being a little cry baby #ok ill just say it this is specifically about the pjo she ra and aftg fandoms and a lot of the fan art woopsie #pjo #she ra #aftg

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blue-rose-89 · 6 years

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The tragedy of the Black Paladin.....

Part 1: Why is Shiro loved and why people are upset.

After hearing about the now controversial interview on Shiro being a retired Paladin because Allura severed his bond to Black after she brought him back from the dead, I’m sure you’ve heard these words by now:

“Oh, good. Shiro can now finally have the rest he deserves. He’ll find a new calling.”

“All right! Keith is the True Black Paladin, just how it was meant to be.”

“Shiro fans are just being salty for not having the story go their way. Get over it.”

The “new calling” response is something I can understand but I feel like these people are missing the point as to why Shiro the retired Paladin has gotten so much flak and why there may be more consequences to this decision than one may think.

Shiro being removed from Paladinship isn’t your typical fan-entitlement topic you would often see in the shipping side of the fanbase. It’s more than that. I know that it sounds weird for people to love and worship a character but you’d be surprised by just how many people were inspired to be the best person they can be, to change their outlook on life, all because of a fictional character. Why do you think heroes from Marvel and DC are seen inspiring towards people? Voltron definitely has its share of inspiring characters but the one who has sticked out the most is Shiro. When asked about why people love Shiro these are the most common answers:

1. He’s a non-white protagonist.

2. He has a physical and psychological disability that makes those who have disabilities want to connect with him.

3. He has a very charming personality. They don’t call him Space Dad for nothing.

These three reasons definitely contribute to his popularity but what if I were to tell you that there’s a fourth reason on why people love Shiro. What if I were to tell you that the reason people love Shiro isn’t just because he’s Asain or he has PTSD, but because of his resolve to keep going with his life no matter how many times the universe feels like it’s against him. He was someone who wanted to fight his fate.

This is a man who’s had a bad thing happen to him because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. He didn’t ask to have this bad thing happened him but it happened anyway and he had no choice but to “make do” with his situation even if it scars him physically and emotionally.

This is a man spent a year not in control of his life until fate gave him a chance to escape to find a new home, family, and new purpose in life by becoming a Paladin of Voltron. This man was given the chance to help and protect those who were helpless like he was.

This is a man who has been told that he is weak and unworthy by those who hurt him despite all the good we have seen him done because he has seen and done terrible things. Despite it being heavily implied on him believing it to be true, we know it’s not true at all because he still has the resolve to be a good person who wants to do good.

This is a man who doesn’t let his own death stop him from reaching out to his friends to help them.

This man, this Shiro, IS a champion. A hero. A True Paladin of Voltron because he doesn’t give up. Or so we thought before the interview came out.

After everything Shiro has gone through, everything he has fought for to show that he is not ‘broken’, has been snatched away in the form of losing his connection to the Black Lion because apparently bonds can be easily broken now. Even if you’re not a Shiro fan you got to admit not only is this a bleak message to show on kid’s show, but it is a disservice to his character. He doesn’t get a send off or a choice in losing his bond to Black, it just happens because the writers said so. As I said before in a previous post, I now feel like and idiot for getting invested in the wrong character because in the end Shiro’s story isn’t about overcoming his demons, it’s about him serving the other character’s needs regardless of how he feels about it. He really his a glorified seat warmer.

If you’re still here reading this then I’m sure some of you are again going, “but he’ll find a new job that will be more fulfilling than being a Paladin. You’re just whining.”so I’ll say this again: That’s not the point I’m trying to make. The point I’m trying to make is that regardless of where you stand on Shiro no longer being the Black Paladin has put the show that was once awesome in a dark light. It has made people feel not just hurt and stupid for investing in this great character, but it has made people who know more about writing/marketing in shows than I do are beginning to question the writers/showrunners decisions on where the story is going.

Speaking of the writers, I’ll get to them in a Part 2 post because this is long enough.

#voltron #voltron legendary defender #vld #voltron season 6 #voltron season 7 #voltron shiro #voltron interviews

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