Mx. Ingénue

“When he died the ravens sat in the trees outside for a week, watching. Taking turns. A horde of raccoons tried to break into the house every night, tearing at the siding. Eventually they gave up, but it was unsettling.”

A) “Awesome! We have TWO Black women in this movie! We are going to get SO MANY woke points!”

B) “Awesome! We have TWO Black women in this movie! It’s bound to inflame all the right-wingers and give us free advertising!”

C) Both, probably

(Above statements can also be applied to elliot page)

Both of these can either be seen as boiling down Black women to solely their identity as “Black” and “woman” instead of their individuality, or just people yet AGAIN throwing Black women under the bus and ignoring/not considering the negative backlash they might receive. Now, my backlash point should not stop movies from casting Black women, of course, but I feel like the director/producers/whoever is in charge alongside the media should be doing more to protect actresses in general from harassment, but that is a different can of worms

Anyways, what this ends up doing is causing a whole bunch of discourse about race and representation and “historical accuracy,” bringing about a worldwide hate campaign against two Black women while ignoring the REAL racism. Which is the fact that yet again another white man is taking the stories of another culture and twisting it into his own westernized, whitewashed narrative while not consulting people from that culture, or at the very least showing respect for that STILL LIVING culture. Most people forget that Greeks are not as “white” as they think they are, and I am not just talking about skin tone

When I hear "tumblr sexyman," I think of Cecil Night Vale being constantly depicted as a skinny white man instead of literally anything else. I think of the background character white men who get elevated over protagonists that are women, people of color, or otherwise not the white man power fantasy.

Cecil Night Vale, as previously mentioned.

Oncelercest, because if there aren't two skinny white men to ship, tumblr fandom will start shipping the skinny white man with himself.

Bill Cipher inexplicably being fanon'd as a white twink despite being a fucking triangle.

Everyone fawning over Marvel Loki while shoving every woman and Black person in the MCU aside.

The way nearly every single character in Hazbin Hotel has the same "tall and skinny" body type, along with all the criticisms Black audience members have made about the issues with Alastor's design.

GO OFF BESTIE