[ SECRET POST #2755 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2755 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nope, don't want to discuss anything, actually. Just trying to get it through your head that because you can sympathize with someone because Metaphor™, that doesn't work for everyone.

[(Anonymous)]

As opposed to you, who's trying to argue that since the metaphor doesn't work for you, it shouldn't work for anyone.

[(Anonymous)]

No. From the very beginning, I said I can't sympathize with her and I can't fathom why she'd join the slaughter-all-humans team. Never that no one should, just that I personally don't.

Let's try a different metaphor, then.

[nyxelestia]

Joining a terrorist group wasn't the best reaction to her dilemma, but that doesn't mean her actual dilemma is somehow invalid. I mean, a lot of the stuff the Black Panthers did in the early civil rights era was terrible, but that doesn't mean racism wasn't a real, legitimate problem. A bad solution doesn't erase the problem.

If the whole "wanting to be blue" metaphor doesn't make sense, look at this way: let's say you have a very conventionally attractive man. He can roll out of bed and look like a cover model, puts on muscle with barely any work, and his hair always looks fantastic no matter what he does.

That won't mean a damn thing for him if he wants to wear a dress when he goes to work or does his groceries. He might as well be hideous - even if he knows he's not, not by societal standards - because it's not him.

And that's the point. Raven should be able to be her blue self and walk down the street or go to work or do groceries or whatever without fearing harassment or assault. But she isn't - she has to change her appearance. A man wearing a dress is liable to get attacked or killed in many parts of America and the world today, and in the Marvel universe, if Raven were to walk down the street as her blue-scaled self, she is very likely to get harassed or assaulted for it, and possibly even killed. Just for looking like herself.

And while the "changing appearance" part doesn't apply as much for people of color, the whole "being safe looking like yourself" part is. A black person should never have to live in fear of being harassed, attacked, or arrested just for walking down the street, yet that's exactly what happens for people across America (Trayvon Martin, anyone?).

No one should ever have to live in fear of looking like themselves.

It doesn't matter how she changes her appearance - the fact that she has to at all is the problem.

Re: Let's try a different metaphor, then.

[(Anonymous)]

This. This whole argument is starting to sound a lot like "If you're conventionally attractive, your problems aren't valid and you should just shut up and be grateful that you're ~so lucky~ to be pretty."

I'm detecting a lot of jealousy here, to be honest.

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn't matter how she changes her appearance - the fact that she has to at all is the problem.

Yes. This. Thank you.