#cher horowitz

Cher Horowitz (Clueless)

she is generally beloved and and icon, and i get that her being jewish wasn't actually mentioned in the movie, but with that name and some of the references in movie? but fandom never really goes there, so, erased i guess?

Kyle Broflovski (South Park)

In what way isn't he a victim of fandom antisemitism? Despite Matt Stone being a secular Jew, South Park has always been a bit contentious on tumblr for obvious reasons. However, Kyle, partially based on Stone himself, does tend to subvert a lot of stereotypical traits of Jewish men commonly found in media. He's assertive and athletic, while also being considered one of the smartest and most sensible boys in his class. Yeah he has his issues, but he and Stan (the character based on other co-creator Trey Parker) tend to be the most sensible characters.   In fanworks, Kyle's Judaism is either almost completely erased or portrayed in the most stereotypical and over the top way possible. He's a popular blorbo for young gentiles to project onto, which often leads to them assigning him certain traits or features that carry some deeply unfortunate implications to anyone familiar with the history of how Jewish men are portrayed. For example, he'll often be reduced to a pathetic nerd who can't get a date, who's been pining over his (generally male, despite the character having the most canonical girls who've been interested in him) love interest. Many times (as in it's his second most popular pairing), said "love interest" is Eric Cartman, a character that's canonically called him a K***, dressed up as Hitler multiple times, and tried to incite genocide. He's also often written as sexually submissive in deeply fetishistic ways. Out of all the main characters, he'll often always being the one getting pregnant in Mpreg, or being the Omega in Omegaverse. In the hands of a skilled author none of these are an issue per se, but none of these gentiles are particularly skilled, and end up just recreating medieval blood libel for the modern audience.   Meta is also awful. Often Kyman shippers, needing to justify why they can't get enough of shipping a Jewish kid with a nazi, will write screeds on how he's just as bad as this kid. They're convinced he's actually jealous of the way he can persuade people, not that he's infuriated that this kid is blatantly antisemitic. "Sneaky" and "underhanded" and "duplicitous" are words I've seen used. Some Jewish and gentile fans have spoken against it, but often these people point to the few Jewish Kyman fans to say they're doing nothing wrong.   I'm aware there's a lot to critique about South Park and how it handles Judaism. However, whatever you might think about the show, the fandom is infinitely worse, and Kyle's been probably the most egregious victims of fandom antisemitism I've ever seen.

Bonus points for his parents, Gerald and Sheila (two of the more competent parents in town both consistently presented and satired as liberals) being portrayed in multiple fanworks as evil and abusive homophobes who his gentile love interest (usually his best friend Stan or the previously mentioned antisemitic Cartman) must save him from.   The fandom is a lot of young and ignorant gentile kids, so it's extra brutal.

listen, the show itself is cowritten by a jew and you can tell he's making fun of antisemitism when he writes it in. the fandom, on the other hand, is full of people who do NOT FUCKING KNOW how to replicate that style of humor or how to adapt it into more serious fanwork. which cant be helped i suppose. but have you seen some of the kyman fanfiction out there.