#badrepresentations

[crimeronan]

re last reblog one thing i am kinda dreading IF i ever finish the original fiction project (kinda doubtful with my health being what it is) and IF i get it traditionally published (also kinda doubtful with my health being what it is) is that like. the audience for it is obviously gonna be largely queer adults and a lot of those queer adults are gonna be very online people and a small subsection of them may have Hot Takes (TM) and like. devin's magic/illness hurts. it hurts and sucks and hurts and there's body horror involved and some of that body horror is supernatural but some of it is very very very realistically rooted in the horror of being sick and having a body that is betraying you and.

god. i really don't think my heart can take any "horror about being disabled is #problematic and #badrepresentation because being disabled isn't horrifying and should never be depicted as such and if it is it's bad 💕💕💕" twitter takes. like i know that if my work reaches any kind of wide audience that those takes will proliferate no matter what i do bc bad faith discourse is the norm but GOD.

i am so tired all the time.

i do Not have the capacity.

#cancel me over nova and sol being misogynistic terrorist cunts to each other. not over devin being sick #original fiction #devin #on this note i have to go back to bed cuz ive been awake for 4.5 hours so im exhausted again #autoimmune tag

[midnightsun1114-blog]

Post Three: Negative Stereotypes and Representations

        There are four main stereotypes of black women that are constantly being perpetuated in media. These insulting and even damaging stereotypical roles Black Women are forced to play are the maid or housekeeper, black friend, hypersexualized woman or Jezebel, and the angry black woman. Most of these character tropes are one dimensional and only showcase a surface layer attribute that is exaggerated. There are examples of actresses taking advantage of the conventions that go along with a certain stereotype and adding layers through their acting talent and their research into the subtext of the character. Addressing there stereotypes is in no way bashing the actresses that have taken these roles because in my next post I will be discussing how many of these women have paved the way for women of color in cinema. For this post I’m going to be focusing on the black friend and angry black woman stereotype.

         I want to start of with what could be consider the token black friend. In film there are often characters that are Black friend of the main character. Like the maid or housekeeper trope, the black best friend is mostly there to nurture and guide white characters. They often don't come off as real or organic in movies because it seems like Hollywood often puts them there to appear inclusive. Having them there is a nod to the black community as a way to say they thought about us and we should be grateful. The black friend is a mandatory addition to a group of friends so they seem diverse. I'm not saying this particular trope is bad and revolting but I think it's important to raise the question when do black women get to be more than the side character sometimes. Is it too much to ask that sometimes a Black Woman can be the lead of a movie from time to time and not always have to stand in the background and give advice like they are a therapist or life coach.In my opinion it is positive to see more black characters and it nice to see them portrayed in a more positive light but this goes into the concept of tokenism. 

      Next would be the notorious stereotype of the angry Black Woman. I’m personally really tired of Black women being portrayed in these movies as bitter and angry. They often are being mean to men in general and have unrealistic expectations for what a man should be. This is a really common and overused trope that casts black women in a really negative light. She is an unhappy person, and channels her frustrations on by criticizing others especially African American men. In a way it’s like Black women are being punished by the film industry for not fitting the traditional role of a woman. This harsh portrayal of African American women comes from the unfair gender expectation that says that women are weak, passive, and non-threatening so Black women who are famous for speaking their minds and stating their opinion are demonized. An example of this would be from the film Deliver Us From Eva in which Gabrielle Union plays an angry black woman who is seriously mean. She is very over protective and overbearing towards her sisters and their love lives to the point that the boyfriends feel like this is the only way she will stay out of their business. There is a famous scene from the film where she chews out the owner of a restaurant because she is a health inspector and doesn’t find the place to be up to par.

       This characterization is very problematic because media whether we want to admit it or not highly affects the public’s view. Constantly having black female characters like this reinforces the notion that all black women are like that. A real-life example would be when my Filipino friends who when they first came to America were cautious of Black people in general because of all the stuff they had “learned” about Black people from music videos, television, and film. This shows how people start to blur the lines between what is a fictional portrayal in film and take it as fact. People who don’t get the chance to interact with African Americans and Black women take these images and see them as true because not everyone can take the time to research outside of these mediums.

#angryblackwoman #negativestereotypes #tropes #badrepresentations #blackfriend

[derichelieu]

Well I've actually met you irl, and you're more like the chill parts of your blog (or like you know which secondary blog) than the artsy ones (I guess the artsiness is inside you~). And in general you're fun to be around and very excitable about the things you love

You honestly met me at my jockiest. I normally look like a stupendously pretentious wanker (I even have a truly spectacular pair of glasses that just scream ‘CIOTA Z MISH-U’ despite me having nothing to do with MISH). So that look was kinda #badrepresentation. But yeah, I save being d33p and d4rk for the internet >D I’d rather write about artsy stuff, talking as in speaking is for xD type of humour.

#moja stylowa rn jak tu siedze a tamto wtedy to tak rozne swiaty holy shit #niestety Nie Chce Mi Sie jak mam w perspektywie podroze pociagiem itede az dziwne ze nie bylam w dresach #a mam takie piekne dresy a la motorcycle jeans XDDD #meme me #flaky bandit