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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-04-11 05:45 pm

[ SECRET POST #3386 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3386 ⌋

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Bit early today, sorry!

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(Anonymous) 2016-04-12 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
The second thing you're mentioning is whitewashing, which is different from white coding. (And no, it's not a "Tumblr Term", coding of all sorts of different things has been around since humanity started creating entertainment, and white washing has been observed since before Tumblr was a glimmer in the internet's eye.) Lots of fans whitewash Asian characters, which creates all sorts of problems, but I won't get into it since F!S has been really touchy about race wank lately and if I dare mention that maybe if your only non-white pairing/ship/whatever is a pale redhead and his pale blonde best friend, or a pale blue haired kid and his pale redheaded friend, or the only "nonwhite" character you find attractive is that pale girl with blue eyes and curly blonde ringlets maaaaaaaybe you're effectively whitewashing Asian anime characters because your brain considers them "white enough" to find attractive. Of course people won't admit to doing this (well, I will, I did this a lot when I was younger, after I went to college and unstuck my head from my ass and actually met people from other races which was sorely lacking in my shitty little hometown, I stopped this BS), so you have some people claiming it's whitecoding rather than whitewashing.

(Anonymous) 2016-04-12 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Oh hi again. Please continue ignoring all the points people made in last week's post debunking these claims, like the fact that when obviously not white characters do appear in anime, they're no less likely to be shipped than ones you consider "white coded." Your last few sentences indicate that you're white, by the way, so maybe just stop assuming other white people think like you?

(Anonymous) 2016-04-12 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
Lol there has been no "debunking" of this, stop kidding yourself. I didn't see anything that refuted this, in fact I saw lots of people admitting in another thread that they thought anime characters were white so...looooolz. I honestly love when people point to fucking anime characters as the only nonwhite characters they deem attractive. (Oh yes, Sailor Moon, the pinnacle of minority beauty!) Also, AHAHAHA oh my god, yeah dark characters in anime, sooooo likely to be the fandom fave. I love how you're making a broad, generalized statement because that guy from Kuroko's Basketball or whatever is semi-popular. Let's just ignore all the other minority characters that don't have massive fandoms and ships because this one dark skinned still obviously Japanese dude has some fans, that solves everything.

Also, no, I'm not white but BZZZZZZZT try again. Mulatto actually, although when I was younger you would have never heard me describing myself that way, it was "light skinned, half white". I used to try and erase the fact that I have a light-skinned black mother in social situations. I stopped that shit in college though, like I said.

Finally: Whitewashed, not "coded", learn to read.