[ SECRET POST #2866 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2866 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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07. http://i.imgur.com/fq1S7if.png
[Strictly Come Dancing, linked for nudity]


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08. [ SPOILERS for Bleak Expectations]



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09. [ SPOILERS for Watchmen ]



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10. [ SPOILERS for Transformers: More than Meets the Eye ]



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11. [ WARNING for child sexual abuse ]



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12. [ WARNING for rape, gore, etc]

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Comments

[brooms]

IMO, The worst is when people, typically in more sj-oriented fandoms, get scared of being called racist for focusing on the white guys and make an token effort to fawn over a POC, but in a really shallow way ("omgggg x is perf").

the lipservice is both hilarious and embarrassing in its transparency, but i disagree with you that it's "the worst". i think it's preferable to unchecked hostility or complete erasure. not by a wide margin, but by a bit.

from experience, it can get quite nasty in the rare occasions when a dark skinned character is perceived as threatening a popular white/white pairing.

[beverlykatz]

You're right, the hostility and aggressively racist stuff is definitely worse. I meant that I personally find the masturbatory "look how aware and hip and not racist I am love me" lipservice more aggravating than the erasure in a lot of cases, because people then think "oh this character totally gets love, yay equality!" and the end result is essentially the same: a great character is overlooked.

[brooms]

trust me, i feel you. i'm with you on that. but the thing about complete erasure that worries me is that it can sort of snowball outside the confines of the fandom of a particular source material.

like, i'm not fannish about the MCU, but i remember that for quite a while, i didn't even bat an eyelash when i saw fanart on my dash that featured the likes of coulson, loki and even movie-verse wolverine and spider-man in the avengers line-up and left out nick fury and black widow.

it actually took reading meta for me, a casual consumer, someone who had actually seen the movies and considers herself somewhat aware of SJ issues, to figure out what was wrong with this picture.

for the longest time, i thought the main character in teen wolf was stiles.

things like that.

[beverlykatz]

You know what? This is a really good point. I've been seeing more of the shallow lipservice lately, so it's been grating on me, but at least it's representation on some level.