This particular set doesn’t make the rounds on Tumblr much, probably because it’s a bit darker in tone - I think it drives the point home a lot better.
Why is the white person in there………
Based on the costume, I’d say the white person is a southerner in the US. White southerners are often depicted as racist, homophobic, stupid, incestuous, overly-religious rednecks. It’s not a stigma that is nearly as harmful as the rest of the ones depicted, but it’s still a rude and inaccurate stereotype of a culture, which is probably why they chose to put it in there.
Looking at the pictures above, it’s pretty easy to find the similarities. East Asian women with dyed purple/blue/red hair, usually in a streak. No matter how you look at this, this is an uncomfortably specific trend in media. Yeah, it looks cute, but after seeing this over and over again, it becomes a boring, racist trope. This originated from a variety of possibilities: the creators trying to “Americanize” the East Asian character, make them more “exotic”, or to show how unique this character is. She’s not a giggling schoolgirl or a delicate lotus flower, she’s different! See, she has a streak of purple hair (god forbid she dyes it any other color), look how radical that is, look at our modern Dragon Lady!
And yes, Knives dyed her hair to look like Ramona, and yes, Somni-451’s hair is like that to mark her as a clone, but these characters do not exist in a vacuum. You can justify why a character has a specific appearance, but in the end, this character was created, and contributes to stereotypes no matter the intent.
So the moral of this story is that your Asian character with a strip of purple hair isn’t original. It isn’t unique. No matter how innocent this appears to be, it can be detrimental to East Asian girls, since the characters that look like them have the same exact traits. It’s time to explore different ways of designing East Asian characters, instead of just slapping on some purple and calling it a day.
FIRST OF ALL
HOW
THE HELL
IS AN ASIAN WOMAN WEARING PART OF HER HAIR COLORED “RACIST????”
Does it OFFEND East Asian people?? Does it make fun of their culture?? Their race??? Becuase hearing bullshit like a piece of colored hair being RACIST it literally the most ridiculous fucking thing i’ve ever heard.
Sure it’s a popular stylistic choice but holy fuck don’t go accusing a popular stylistic choice and deem it as being racist without proof that it’s offending asian women for real jfc
I’m Asian, and i personally believe that wearing colored hair would look beautiful regardless of what race you are. Black, white, hispanic, asian, etc.
So please don’t go shitting on a stylistic choice and deem it as fucking racist. How about you go attack someone that’s deeming a race as “exotic” with proof that it is instead of complaining about the little shit involving characters in media. Y’all are never pleased
I am a Chinese-descent Indonesian, and I’ll just tell you why this offends me.
Now of course everyone can have their stance on anything. Some people may be offended by this, some may not be. This issue in particular do not at all make fun of East Asian Culture, so it’s not racist in that manner.
What it is, however, is simplifying and stereotyping. Now I only know a few of these female characters, so do correct me if I’m wrong, but what I’m seeing is that all of them except for Tina from Glee are some sort of “strong athletic fighter Asian woman”. I mean, sure, being athletic, strong, and confident isn’t a bad thing in itself, but when every other asian woman is portrayed that way, people start to develop a stereotype.
I’ve known many women of the Chinese ancestry through my lifetime, living here in South East Asia, but I can tell you that not once have I ever seen a woman with that coloured streak thing. not once.Instead I often see women with their whole hair dyed brown or golden, and I can understand. that. Getting that coloured streak requires you to bleach only that single streak of hair, which I think is just a lot of work. People would rather get their whole hair bleached and coloured.
I am not saying that the coloured streak thing is a bad style or whatever. I’m just asking, where did that even come from? Why is every other Asian woman in media like that? Even from this list alone, Blink and Psylocke from the same franchise has almost exact same hairstyles with exact same colours .
East Asian women and pretty much Asian people in general is more than that. We’re not just some “Kung Fu-fighting eccentric-haired purple-loving people” you know. Even just in the matter of hairstyle alone, a lot of us actually like it to stay black. Some of us like it a bit lighter, and only a handful of us actually want to dye it some unnatural colour. So yeah, I personally hate this trope, and I’d rather have Asian people represented as we actually are.
Another asian here to show you these other characters that do not have this hairstyle
Seriously guys, if you take all the Asian characters WITH that hairstyle OF FUCKING COURSE it’s gonna look like EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM look like that
There’s so many other Asian characters that don’t have that god damn hairstyle like-
Seeing how many people follow DualityDiscretion’s logic, just because they didn’t see it means they aren’t there at all.
Have you ever considered which part of the country you are in. I live in Malaysia and in the big city and, heck, even in my state AND neighbouring state ( Johor Bahru ) there’s a lot of people there that coloured their hair LIKE THIS. No, their hair isn’t purple, it’s usually red or blue.
-Also consider the time of the year. Asian countries usually have stricter rules than the Western ones when it comes to jobs and education. You cannot have dyed hair when you’re schooling and/or working so during that time period, a lot of them will have to dye their hair black.
During the holidays, there’s a SHIT TON of people with dyed hair. Heck, there’s even MALES with tips coloured like that.
Quit pissing over a few characters that have been like this and focus on the other ones if you are REALLY that offended at how Asian characters have a single stripe in their hair, yeah?
Also whining about characters having this stripe in their hair isn’t going to fucking change anything, the movie/game producers aren’t going to go through your blog and look at that, nod and then immediately change.
Viola Davis talks about the childhood hunger problem in the U.S. at Variety’s annual Power of Women luncheon.(x)
And it never goes away. It never, never goes away.
I grew up with immense food uncertainty. I did all these things, and I did most of them with two much smaller sisters. I resented them for getting to eat before I did when I was nine and they were two and three, because I was old enough to understand hunger, and they weren’t. I hated my mother for years because we never had anything to eat, and it took until well into my adulthood to realize that she had hated herself, too.
I start asking people what they want to do about dinner starting around nine in the morning when at a convention or other vacation spot. I need to know. Even if the plan is just “oh, food court” or “oh, we have those leftovers,” I need someone who is not me, someone who is less wrecked over their relationship with food, to promise me that I am still allowed to eat.
It never goes away.
Childhood hunger is never satiated.
I have never been in straits quite that dire, but…there was an odd stretch of my childhood when we had very limited food. My mother was very depressed and working unspeakably long hours. Sometimes when she came home, it was easier just to let her sleep than to nag her about food. When I had exhausted cooking everything I knew how to cook (it wasn’t much) I wouldn’t eat. (I imagine she didn’t either.) We had very little money for groceries anyway. There was food in the pantry, since it was my grandmother’s house, and she’d stocked it, but it was like twenty bottles of bulk bbq sauce and expired cans of crushed tomato and stuff. I didn’t know how to turn that into food. Possibly there was no way. Some nights—this was back when you could get tacos for 39 cents at Taco Bell—we would take a dollar and eat and then she would go back to sleep.
The nadir of this came during one summer, when I didn’t have school lunches to fall back on, and so I would frequently go a day or two without eating. I didn’t really feel like I was being starved, because it was a thing I was choosing to do, to help out. I think I believed on some level that if I bothered my mother, she would find a way to fix it, I just didn’t want to bother her because she was so tired.
We got food stamps a little while after that, and it was…I can’t really explain what that was like. We couldn’t believe we were being allowed to have this much food and that it was okay. Mom cried a bit, I think. That whole summer was like we were in this weird little bubble and it wasn’t as good as other people’s bubbles, but it was suddenly so much better in there.
Anyway, TL;DR, anybody who says food stamps are for lazy people, you can unfollow me now and kindly fuck yourself on the way out.
(( I can definitely relate to this. My parents did the best they could, but I also grew up in a household that was often food poor. At the time, I thought it was normal, I assumed everyone must live that way. I remember waiting in long lines for hours to get a block of government cheese and a box of powdered milk, because that was to be our food for the next week. If we were really lucky we might have gotten a loaf of bread. If it wasn’t for my Grandparents and their garden we probably would have gone without more often than not. There was a church across the street from my house, and I remember walking home from school and being really excited if they were having a wedding or a funeral there that day, because it meant I could sneak in and get something to eat. Which I did as often as I was able.
Childhood hunger is a real problem. And it does continue to affect us as adults. Food = comfort, certainty, security. Even as an adult if I know I am getting low on money, I start skipping meals; because deep down I know it’s better to have food when I really really need it, versus being able to eat when I am only mildly uncomfortable. Childhood hunger is a problem that never goes away. ))
Tbh money would solve all of my problems right now like I could move out and pay for school and take care of my mental health and overall I would just be happy and in a better place so I get really annoyed when people are like “money can’t make you happy” uh you obviously never experienced financial instability and dependence so please shut the fuck up you pretentious shit.
Matthew Barnett admitted to raping a 14-year-old girl.
Matthew Barnett admitted to raping a 14-year-old girl.
Matthew Barnett admitted to raping a 14-year-old girl.
He admitted to it. On fucking camera. He and another boy recorded the rape and that of a 13-year-old girl.
Why aren’t they in prison for sexual exploitation of a minor and production/possession of child pornography?
Oh, right, because they’re popular football players and Matthew Barnett is related to a politician! Therefore, nothing they can do is wrong or bad and they should never face punishment and should instead be rewarded for raping young teenage girls and filming their assaults.
