Growing Around Growing Around: A slow moving trainwreck. (General Thread)

[Wabbu]

As someone said before, one of the teachers could be black, or any other race besides white.
But Enter is too afraid of offend anyone with any slightly hint at a stereotype.

 

[Toy_Bon-Bon]

As someone said before, one of the teachers could be black, or any other race besides white.
But Enter is too afraid of offend anyone with any slightly hint at a stereotype.

Well, actually Mr.Kathy, Robert and Linda's teacher, is Asian, so that's a start, I suppose.

 

[Wabbu]

Well, actually Mr.Kathy, Robert and Linda's teacher, is Asian, so that's a start, I suppose.

I think I've said this before
But I'm not sure if she's asian, or just white with a different eye shape from the others
and if she's asian, she is kind of a stereotype , by being the shy character and all that

 

[Toy_Bon-Bon]

I think I've said this before
But I'm not sure if she's asian, or just white with a different eye shape from the others
and if she's asian, she is kind of a stereotype , by being the shy character and all that

She's the shy one? She didn't seem all that shy in the pilot, just cutesy.

 

[Wabbu]

She's the shy one? She didn't seem all that shy in the pilot, just cutesy.

Yes
As she has being refered "The Token Fluttershy character every brony needs to shoehorn in their works"

 

[Master Shake]

Well, actually Mr.Kathy, Robert and Linda's teacher, is Asian, so that's a start, I suppose.

"Mr. Kathy"
That implies they're a trans or cis or something.
The sad thing is it would also make Kathy a better character than anything Entard could come up with.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

When Enter introduces a minority character, I guarantee it will fall under this trope:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PositiveDiscrimination

 

[Anchuent Dictata]

Enter doesn't have the capacity to be racist, I think.

He just directs all of his spite at Spongebob writers instead.

Come to think of it, not just gays, but people who literally identify in a way or live a lifestyle that makes children essentially impossible as a whole, man does the universe hate them.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Enter doesn't have the capacity to be racist, I think.

He just directs all of his spite at Spongebob writers instead.

Come to think of it, not just gays, but people who literally identify in a way or live a lifestyle that makes children essentially impossible as a whole, man does the universe hate them.

You would think that since Enter's asexual, he'd be able to notice this glaring flaw.

 

[Anchuent Dictata]

You would think that since Enter's asexual, he'd be able to notice this glaring flaw.

You could devote an entire topic to discussing his Ace status, I reckon.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Anybody wanna make it?

 

[Johnny Bravo]

This explains why so many attempts to add diversity to cartoons fail.

Writing a character who doesn't share your ethnicity, gender, or sexuality can be difficult, especially if you lack real life experience with similar people. It can feel like if you make your character too much of a stereotype people will accuse you of an -ism, but if you don't make them enough of a stereotype you'll be accused of misrepresentation. Depending on the setting or medium you're working with you can sometimes get away with not having a lot of diversity.

But in a family cartoon set during modern times? Hah, nope. If a major network did for some reason accept his pitch solving the diversity problem would probably be their first demand.

 

[Toy_Bon-Bon]

"Mr. Kathy"
That implies they're a trans or cis or something.
The sad thing is it would also make Kathy a better character than anything Entard could come up with.

Whoopsie. I meant Ms.Kathy. I'm so dumb sometimes...

 

[MrWarioWare]

Would there be racial discrimination in a kids world?

 

[AnOminous]

Would there be racial discrimination in a kids world?

No. Kids are too enlightened. They have to be carefully taught to hate people on the basis of race.

Spoiler

They'd beat up fatties.

 

[MrWarioWare]

What if their parents are Neo-Nazis?

 

[Wabbu]

Would there be racial discrimination in a kids world?

Well, if as Enter said, the world is runned by kids since the beginning, so, they would have the initial shock with different cultures
so, I'd say yes

 

[Headbanger General]

Well, you know that Enter bases this show on his very limited experience with the world. He doesn't get out a lot (He doesn't even have a driver's license.), so it's highly unlikely that he's seen much more than Chicopee. Massachusetts is one of the whitest states in the country, so black people probably don't cross his path very often.

All that aside, he shouldn't be forced to include non-whites in his work just because they will feel "underrepresented". Anyway, I'm done playing Devil's advocate. Let's move on, eh?

 

[DrChristianTroy]

Would there be racial discrimination in a kids world?

Of course. Kids are assholes. One more aspect of this world that could be explored and never will be.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Of course. Kids are assholes. One more aspect of this world that could be explored and never will be.

Nope, kids are never assholes, and if other kids bully you it's because you deserve it.