[ SECRET POST #3179 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3179 ⌋

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

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[Rupaul's Drag Race season 7]


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[20th Century Boys]


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[The Mighty Boosh, Noel Fielding]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Agree it's a little curious that for a show so focused on challenging norms they sure don't care to challenge the stereotype that black girls have giant asses/thighs

That said I like Garnet's design though

[(Anonymous)]

you do realize that she's literally a space rock

last time i checked real life black woman are humans from earth, not space rocks

[(Anonymous)]

Yep totally a coincidence that she's got an afro and dark skin and a black voice actress

[(Anonymous)]

I am now getting flashbacks to the Bayformers fandom's wank debates over Jazz and the illiterate ice cream truck twins.

(Does it really qualify for the "Black Dude Dies First" trope if the black dude is an alien robot?)

[(Anonymous)]

Shit like this is why I hate the game that Steven Universe is playing. They've created a pretty interesting diverse cast, but it doesn't count because 'raceless genderless space rocks lol'. And because regressive types who don't want to have their worldviews challenged enjoy headcanons as much as the rest of us, people who want to interpret the raceless genderless space rocks as LITERALLY being raceless genderless space rocks and not the acceptable ciphers for varying identities they were clearly intended to be aren't technically wrong.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Is there a "technically wrong" when multiple interpretations are built into the design of the series?

[(Anonymous)]

Choosing to interpret fictional characters as being exactly how they are presented in canon makes one regressive and opposed to considering other worldviews. Good to know.

[feotakahari]

There's what exists in-universe and what the story's saying out-of-universe, and you need to understand both to make sense of a story. To contrast a more negative approach, "Submicroscopic" by S.P. Meeks has black-skinned nonhumans who're savage and incapable of inventing, but steal the inventions of others. It also has yellow-skinned nonhumans who're technologically brilliant but incapable of empathy. At no point does any character in the story bring up human ethnicities, but it would be obtuse to pretend the characters aren't racially coded.

[(Anonymous)]

Or the races from WOW, like the Orcs being black, Tauren native american, Goblins jewish, Wargen brits...

[(Anonymous)]

Trolls are black too, but a specific type: Jamaican. The pandaren are so stereotypical chinese it's not funny (though i love them anyway), drarnei are clearly some kind of middle eastern (jewish, east indian, etc). Its the more....human like races that come off more caucasian.

[(Anonymous)]

Whereas I think it makes it more interesting. I'm sorry that having multiple interpretations is difficult for you.

[(Anonymous)]

lol sit down

[(Anonymous)]

Bro it's like how people tend to point out that a weak female character isn't a bad thing if there are multiple female characters. Garnet isn't the only gem coded black. I would go so far as to gently point out that she isn't the only Crystal Gem coded black.

[(Anonymous)]

Garnet is a fusion of Sapphire and Ruby. Ruby is a fairly short woman with a smaller version of Garnet's afro. Her skin is red. Her voice and personality are totally unlike Garnet's. Sapphire is also a fairly short woman with long blue hair and blue skin. In terms of personality, she's very calm, much like Garnet. While I do think it's interesting that Garnet looks more like Ruby than Sapphire (but acts more like Sapphire than she does Ruby), there are some physical similarities (Garnet is a taller version of Sapphire's body shape, if you look at the shoulders/chest/hands). Also, fusion generally means the two gems combined become much bigger than they are individually.

[(Anonymous)]

Garnet is also the most aggressive Gem, she def takes that from Ruby.

[(Anonymous)]

She is not the only character with big thighs in the show... Others have them too, including a white mom.