[ SECRET POST #3249 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3249 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Coming from someone of multiple minority status, I am surprised no one's bringing up the PoC being mocked and told to leave photoshoots aspect of this post. Racism is a problem in cosplay, it's a problem everywhere. But I find it really hard to believe that sort of thing could just happen. I mean, I know it's really trendy to act like we're living in a pre-civil rights act dystopian hellhole America, but no one could get away with that. Not quietly. Not without convention boycotts and outraged petitions and all-out mob style riots at the very instant someone tells a cosplayer to leave because of their skin color. It's not even a matter of standing up for oneself or not. If I were ever mocked publicly and kicked out of a gathering for the way I looked, I would eat my hat (or wig) if the people within earshot didn't immediately shut that shit down and have the offender keelhauled over a balcony or something.

I'm sure y'all have an anecdote or two that blows my anecdotal experience out of the water. But just think before you type. Social Justice is great and all, but no one is doing any good by big time exaggerating what's already pretty rotten. You just make it seem hopeless. And it honestly weirds me out to see people just accepting these so-called extremely overt injustices as fact, because it's taboo to question it.

As for the cosplayer and blackface subject, I don't have too much to say. I don't watch this show, but the version of the character I was familiar with was much less pink than pictured. I think it's a little dishonest to use the very non-black photo as an example if she didn't always look like that.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm kiiiiind of guessing that point was apocryphal or grossly blown out of proportion. As a convention-goer with a specific interest in helping to make the convention scene more welcoming to minorities, seems like it might have been talked about a bit in my circles if this was a trend or something. I'm also thinking that mild suspicion of the anecdote might be why more people aren't talking about it.