[ SECRET POST #2585 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2585 ⌋

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

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02.
[Monster High]


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03.
[Bryan Fuller, John Green]


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04.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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05.
[Pretty Little Liars]


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06.
[Breaking Bad]


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07.
[Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey]


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08.
[Reign]


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09.
[Leviathan: the last day of the decade]


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10.
[Sherlock Holmes]


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11.
[Steam]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 017 secrets from Secret Submission Post #369.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

well, honestly, your reasoning that because she's a Dr. Doolittle/Jane Goodall character means she should be white is pretty racist.

so is the fact that other people's headcannons bother you so much, tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

It's kind of racist to assume the uncivilized jungle character that was saved by a 'smarter' group of people should be black, tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

i've never seen the show. all i had to go on was OP's argument, and they did not mention any of the uncivilized jungle character thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, she's basically a female Tarzan.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Then if nothing else, I'm guessing that OP is totally off in their assessment that she's named "Jane" after Jane Goodall.

[(Anonymous)]

So from this short exchange I think it's safe to conclude that absolutely everything can be taken as racist if you think about it too hard.

[(Anonymous)]

Bingo!

[badass_tiger]

The first was what I thought. the only Dolittle adaptation I'm familiar with is the Eddie Murphy one so I kind of raised an eyebrow at that.

[sarillia]

Well there's also the Rex Harrison version and I could see how someone familiar with that one would picture the character as white. But I'm still not seeing how it's impossible for any of his traits to show up in black people.

[(Anonymous)]

There's also... you know... the book. Which was written in the 1920s and set in "early Victorian England" according to Wikipedia, so I think it's not unreasonable to assume that authorial intent was for Dr. Dolittle to be white.

Not saying that that means that the OP's argument particularly holds water, though (especially because Dr. Dolittle doesn't really share other physical traits with the monster in question. Like gender. Or being a monster).

[cbrachyrhynchos]

It's worse than that, the original book is loaded with many of the stereotypes common about Africa in early 20th century literature. But the character clearly isn't Dr. Doolitle as written by Lofting.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't read OP as saying, "...and therefore she has to be white," but rather saying, "...and therefore I don't understand where this notion that the character has to be black is coming from." But I don't have a dog in this fight, since I'm not in the fandom.