I go to conventions frequently and a lot of black girls go all out on Snow White costumes. Not trying to be funny, I mean they get very nicely made dresses, mimic the walk, ect. They seem to like the innocence and sweetness of the character, it's nice to see their love for the film.
Late to this myself, but this is a
good example of, may I be forgiven for saying this, "diversity" and I'm down for it versus changing the actual character's race or gender itself. After all, a fictional character can be relatable to ANYONE who happens to relate to them, and you CAN'T change your skin color in real life, so Black (I'll be kind and capitalize) girls who relate to Snow White or Cinderalla, and make the effort to look as lovely as the princesses? Yes, I do applaud their dedication to the literal craft of costuming!
It's the race/genderswaps of the characters themselves that's the issue, because they're
all products of their era including demographics and culture, and should be known and acknowledged as such. European myths and American tall tales always had their characters as White because Europe was like 100% and America 90% White for all their history till the last 40 years, just as we expect Chinese mythology to feature, y'know,
Chinese people. If leftists want cultural appropriation to be seen as a real issue, then they need to be on alert for White stuff being appropriated by other races as much as they whistle on "whitewashing." But we know they don't.
I'm just old enough - back when I visited conventions a good fifteen years or so ago - it wasn't nearly as pozzed as nowadays, smaller cons were especially normie-tier, and if you saw a non-White cosplaying Naruto or whatever you could grin seeing the inanity of a real-life Black Naruto but know the dude just really liked Naruto, hence where's the harm in him dressing up as such? It was all in good fun, y'know? And now I consider it a pity that good-natured default assuming is rapidly disappearing, if it hasn't already.
