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[Pina Colada]

Spoiler: Oh my Goddess

Spoiler: Shhh, don't give them any ideas!

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Spoiler: Oh my Goddess

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If they tried to say stuff like this in ancient Greece they would have been accused of impiety and thrown off a cliff à la Aesop.

 

[Just Here to Cringe]

Spoiler: Oh my Goddess

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Aphrodite, who became pregnant with a very large number of greek mythical figures, is a transwoman... you couldn't make her secretly a lesbian or some shit? Nah, gotta be a transwoman. Secretly a man. Had Aries squeeze those kids out his mangina.

This just in, blue is the reddest color.

 

[Helvetica Scenario]

Persephone changes xer label so often xe wonders of people don't take it seriously. Xer is still finding out who xer is...

No shit people don't take you seriously when you change your mind about what your True and Honest self is as easily and more frequently than you change your hairstyle. Make your fucking mind up, Persephone, you spend six months of every year doing nothing but sitting on your ass, that's more than enough time to figure out what you're keeping in your pants and whether this bothers you or not.

Christ, even the tumblrinas can't use fucking neopronouns and keep the grammar straight at the same time. Congratulations, crazy person, for constructing a sentence which basically reads her is still finding out who her is, a structural nightmare that would shame a fourth-grader, and seeing absolutely nothing at all faulty about it. If even the people who immerse themselves in this fetid lake of linguistic bullshit because they genuinely adore super special bunself pronouns can't use these stupid goddamn words right, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Incidentally, my phone kept trying to autocorrect 'xer' to 'xerox' and 'xe' to 'certified'. Make of that what you will

 

[Wabbu]

Or maybe they see themselves as humans because that's what they are, just maybe.

 

[Helvetica Scenario]

Or maybe they see themselves as humans because that's what they are, just maybe.

What is the big deal these people have with wanting to see themselves capital-R Represented in every piece of media they consume, whether it makes sense or not? The last thing I want when I pick up a book or watch a show is my own boring-ass self staring back at me. I have to deal with her all the rest of the time. Escapism should be about people who are actually interesting and have exciting lives. Maybe if these people had anything more fascinating to say about themselves than how many minority boxes they check off, they'd be able to find more characters to identify with. They might, for instance, choose to focus on a character's personality instead of fixating madly on what they look like and who they want to go to bed with. That would be nice.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Oh boy someone decided to take 3 hours long shit when she was told about other cultures based on this. What about Sami shaman's? These people don't look POC nor I have ever seen a POC sami when I lived in north Europe's Lapland.

Spoiler

Sami people, look at the glorious POCness.
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But Sami are POC. Otherwise how could Tumblr complain that Frozen whitewashed them?

 

[Meowthkip]

What is the big deal these people have with wanting to see themselves capital-R Represented in every piece of media they consume, whether it makes sense or not? The last thing I want when I pick up a book or watch a show is my own boring-ass self staring back at me. I have to deal with her all the rest of the time. Escapism should be about people who are actually interesting and have exciting lives. Maybe if these people had anything more fascinating to say about themselves than how many minority boxes they check off, they'd be able to find more characters to identify with. They might, for instance, choose to focus on a character's personality instead of fixating madly on what they look like and who they want to go to bed with. That would be nice.

If you're a kid, though, representation means a lot more. The messages you absorb reflect your outlook on your relationship with your own race and gender. When you're a kid, and you grow up without a lot of people with your skin color as heroes in the stories you read or the movies you watch, and instead see images of them that are negative or stereotypical, that can be damaging to your self image. "I'm not like that," they'll think. "Is that what people think I'm going to be?" For children, that can be crushing.

In the 70's, after the success of Fat Albert, you started to see more cartoons start to experiment with adding diversity in their casts. This reached fever pitch in the early 90's, with Captain Planet and the Burger King Kids Club, the two biggest examples that people who grew up during that era think of when they think of token characters. Tokens came about when a character was added to fill a diversity quota, and had very little personality outside of very stereotypical traits. When the 90's ended, you started to see this tokenism start to fade out in cartoons, as the tokens didn't really even appeal to the children they were supposed to represent... or anybody else, really. The bar has been raised, and as much as people rag on Steven Universe for being Tumblr: The Cartoon, its minority characters actually have personalities that go beyond "the black guy," "the Asian chick," "the nerdy one," and "the girl."

After having said all that, notice that the people to whom representation matters the most is children; the children who are minorities get to see a character that looks like them as a hero, and other children learn that children of those minorities aren't all that different from themselves. I myself remember thinking that it was normal as hell to have a racially diverse group of friends. In fact, I thought that if I didn't, then I was doing something wrong. I was a weird kid.

When you reach adulthood, you should have the ability to relate to characters outside of your race, or even characters whose entire personality is different from yours, because you normally would have been exposed to enough media that you're familiar with the idea of the Universal Human Experience, so you can watch a film about characters in a country you've never been to, speaking a language you can't understand, and as long as there's subtitles, you'll still be able to form an emotional connection with those characters because there are experiences that transcend cultural and language barriers.

These Tumblr kids, however, aren't just stuck in that very childlike state of "why aren't there characters that look like me?", they're in a state of "why aren't there characters that aren't EXACTLY like me?" And then when you throw in the otherkin culture of "I am LITERALLY this character, you guys," you get post-Homestuck everybody-is-POC-and-gay-and-trans fandom culture, because even if they're not relating to the obese transman with vitiligo themselves, they're convinced that they're doing it for the hypothetical obese transman with vitiligo that must exist on the internet, somewhere, who is as self-obsessed as they are.

TL;DR, it's because Tumblr users are emotionally stunted and narcissistic.

 

[nvrn19]

"being trans isn't about conforming to gender roles, but don't call me "cute" or I'll get self-conscious!"

 

[AnOminous]

After having said all that, notice that the people to whom representation matters the most is children; the children who are minorities get to see a character that looks like them as a hero, and other children learn that children of those minorities aren't all that different from themselves.

Which is why adults need to STFU about it if they're not happy. Children want to see heroes and role models like them, but they don't want role models like some dumb shit only adults would decide they are when they're useless fucks in their 20s whining on tumblr. Kids don't want characters like tumblrinas.

 

[Melkor]

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"being trans isn't about conforming to gender roles, but don't call me "cute" or I'll get self-conscious!"

I mean if you really want to get technical, Tumblr does tend to infantilize trans men because they don't really see them as real, evil cis men.

It's like... I dunno, it's like they're low-key saying they're not actual men. And that can be crushing for a trans man just trying to pass and go about his day.

 

[RockVolnutt]

If you're a kid, though, representation means a lot more. The messages you absorb reflect your outlook on your relationship with your own race and gender. When you're a kid, and you grow up without a lot of people with your skin color as heroes in the stories you read or the movies you watch, and instead see images of them that are negative or stereotypical, that can be damaging to your self image. "I'm not like that," they'll think. "Is that what people think I'm going to be?" For children, that can be crushing.

In the 70's, after the success of Fat Albert, you started to see more cartoons start to experiment with adding diversity in their casts. This reached fever pitch in the early 90's, with Captain Planet and the Burger King Kids Club, the two biggest examples that people who grew up during that era think of when they think of token characters. Tokens came about when a character was added to fill a diversity quota, and had very little personality outside of very stereotypical traits. When the 90's ended, you started to see this tokenism start to fade out in cartoons, as the tokens didn't really even appeal to the children they were supposed to represent... or anybody else, really. The bar has been raised, and as much as people rag on Steven Universe for being Tumblr: The Cartoon, its minority characters actually have personalities that go beyond "the black guy," "the Asian chick," "the nerdy one," and "the girl."

After having said all that, notice that the people to whom representation matters the most is children; the children who are minorities get to see a character that looks like them as a hero, and other children learn that children of those minorities aren't all that different from themselves. I myself remember thinking that it was normal as hell to have a racially diverse group of friends. In fact, I thought that if I didn't, then I was doing something wrong. I was a weird kid.

When you reach adulthood, you should have the ability to relate to characters outside of your race, or even characters whose entire personality is different from yours, because you normally would have been exposed to enough media that you're familiar with the idea of the Universal Human Experience, so you can watch a film about characters in a country you've never been to, speaking a language you can't understand, and as long as there's subtitles, you'll still be able to form an emotional connection with those characters because there are experiences that transcend cultural and language barriers.

These Tumblr kids, however, aren't just stuck in that very childlike state of "why aren't there characters that look like me?", they're in a state of "why aren't there characters that aren't EXACTLY like me?" And then when you throw in the otherkin culture of "I am LITERALLY this character, you guys," you get post-Homestuck everybody-is-POC-and-gay-and-trans fandom culture, because even if they're not relating to the obese transman with vitiligo themselves, they're convinced that they're doing it for the hypothetical obese transman with vitiligo that must exist on the internet, somewhere, who is as self-obsessed as they are.

TL;DR, it's because Tumblr users are emotionally stunted and narcissistic.

Forgot, what's their argument for this not being tokenization? It annoys me when they hype up some dull reimaginings of established characters who all sound like the same hipster American with the only gimmick being they're all shades of brown.

Which is why adults need to STFU about it if they're not happy. Children want to see heroes and role models like them, but they don't want role models like some dumb shit only adults would decide they are when they're useless fucks in their 20s whining on tumblr. Kids don't want characters like tumblrinas.

Problem with that is then you're going to have people using child as mouthpieces like the armies of 8 year old Japanese-American girls who are now supposedly doomed to sucking cock for crack thanks to a white woman playing a robot in a movie based on an adult cartoon.

 

[Android raptor]

From what I've seen the main people infantilizing trans men are genderspecials/mlm types. Hell IMHO one of the biggest tells that someone is a trender (other than openly admitting to not having dysphoria of course) is that even as adults they exclusively refer to themselves as boys instead of men (because they want to be kawaii yaoi shota things, not icky hairy men).

 

[Meowthkip]

Forgot, what's their argument for this not being tokenization? It annoys me when they hype up some dull reimaginings of established characters who all sound like the same hipster American with the only gimmick being they're all shades of brown.

Their argument, if they make one at all, is that the idea of "token" characters is something made up by fuckboys who don't want to see glorious POCs or women in the TV shows and comics. So, pretty much a total strawman.

 

[RockVolnutt]

Their argument, if they make one at all, is that the idea of "token" characters is something made up by fuckboys who don't want to see glorious POCs or women in the TV shows and comics. So, pretty much a total strawman.

Huh, I thought at one point Tumblr had a thing about hating tokens with a passion but considering all this "representation" stuff as a totally different thing that you must be a bigot if you can't see the difference.

 

[Meowthkip]

Huh, I thought at one point Tumblr had a thing about hating tokens with a passion but considering all this "representation" stuff as a totally different thing that you must be a bigot if you can't see the difference.

I've seen that argued too.

Either way it's retarded.

 

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I think it's because a lot of token characters can be poorly done. Not that I'm defending them. They'll bitch about any fucking thing, even if the token character is well done.

 

[Clicky]

I mean if you really want to get technical, Tumblr does tend to infantilize trans men because they don't really see them as real, evil cis men.

It's like... I dunno, it's like they're low-key saying they're not actual men. And that can be crushing for a trans man just trying to pass and go about his day.

there's a similar thing with transgender girls on tumblr where they'll post a selfie and weirdos (general MLM crowd) will reblog it being like "omg step on meee" or "bash my skull in!!" to the point where they literally have to state in their bios "don't message me telling me to punch you or something"

which leads me to believe that a lotta people take trans women as these ~*ethereal goddesses who can destroy anything*~ which kinda plays into masculinization (the general idea that male = strong, female = dainty and petite) to sum it all up

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

 

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THE GUY WAS ASIAN YOU FUCKING RETARD.