[ SECRET POST #6920 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6920 ⌋

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I might finally watch Yuri!!! On Ice now that the western fandom for it has long since died down


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Comments

Fandom mostly means well, but...

[(Anonymous)]

This is often true of all debates about representation and diversity in media:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good

Asian POC, so I know what you mean. Not all of the early Asian characters that popped up in media were well written, and they didn't always transcend the stereotypes well. But they were there, and I appreciated the effort as well as the actors who played those roles. Sometimes the start of a journey is messy, but it's an ongoing process and I think that's a good thing.

Re: Fandom mostly means well, but...

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I think there's sometimes a big backlash to early attempts at inclusivity, which often lets the media that didn't even bother to try off the hook.

Re: Fandom mostly means well, but...

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I think it's ongoing. Every POC character gets a crazy degree of scrutiny from some segments of fandom and really, nothing can bear up against that.

Re: Fandom mostly means well, but...

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, they really do. Everyone will look really closely at them and if you look that hard, you can probably find something that could be interpreted as wrong. A lot of the problem is that everyone has a different opinion on what's problematic and what's not. To one person, it's a stereotype, while to another person, it feels like authentic representation.

And then, let's be honest, there are some people who will reach and stretch to find something they can complain about. Often times those people won't even be a part of the group that's being represented.

Re: Fandom mostly means well, but...

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, and a lot of them were great! They suffered from being part of a semi-recognisable group (though Cho, Claudia, and Jess are all EXTREMELY different from each other) and the pattern, but that wasn't their fault! Like okay, the coloured hair streaks was definitely a pattern but imo the issue is much more about OTHER media needing to have more Asian characters and a bigger variety of them, not with these characters/that trope.