Marcellia

Media portraying black women back when films were invented showed them as happy to serve their employers, perpetuating the Mammy stereotype that black women and people in general enjoyed being treated as subhuman servants. That fiction affecting reality. Same for the jezebel stereotype, although it came a bit later in the media the idea was around for a long time as justification for white men sexually abusing black women by showing them as hypersexuals that would happily get down for a man, which really damaged the perception of black women as a whole. Again, fiction affecting reality.

The feminist trope that showed an angry man hating woman who always goes around the streets carrying a sign about equal rights and talking nothing but equal rights to her friends, and showing her as kind of annoying contributed to the rampant misogyny of the 00s by showing all feminists like that. These are fictional characters, but they are (say it with me!) affecting reality.

You wanna know why when you when you were younger acted all “girly girl” playing with dolls and dress up or if you were a boy you played with trucks, building blocks and excluded girls (assuming you did) Because you watched shows of fictional characters doing the same thing. You wanna know why your parents told you scary stories of children going into the woods at night or disobeying their parents and then something terrible happens to them? Because they knew that these fictional characters would scare children into not going into the woods or not disobeying their parents, thus, affecting reality.

And I don’t see proshippers defending these fictional people, saying that “oh they’re fictional characters they’re allowed to be like that”

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