my wife made a post that i really want to hammer on the head so i am also making a post about it at their request which finally got me around to making it. but holy shit
stop treating alex like an animal. seriously fucking stop. it is not okay that RTVS did it and it is not okay for you all to do it either.
cause. hey. guess what alex is. The only woman in the cast. and also a Black woman. and non-verbal. lets use our heads here and think about why it is a bad idea to compare a Black non-verbal woman to an animal. lets just think about it. especially when a Black man like darnold gets a much more humanizing treatment.
plain and simple, it is not even just racism but it is misogynoir. it is Specifically a Black woman who is receiving this treatment. and its really fucking weird how the only woman of the cast is treated like this ON TOP of the fact that she is Black and non-verbal. Black people, especially Black women, have been historically compared to animals as a way to dehumanize them and justify their abuse at the hands of non-Black people throughout history. like just because its not a monkey or a gorilla that she's being compared to doesn't make it any less fucked up when nobody else in the case ever gets this treatment besides her
and like. the way her non-verbalness is treated by the cast is so fucking weird. i do not like the way that she has been treated at all by either the people in the series or by the fanbase. like the fucking "PSPSPSPSP" joke?? insanely fucking weird. and benrey has never been treated this way by people like bubby despite Being strange as hell himself... oh wait. its because he's canonically a white man who can speak. silly me. i forgot this fanbase is actually ragingly anti-Black and ableist and shit. like the amount of whitewashed art of both alex AND darnold i have seen since the drop of HL2VRAI has made me genuinely unfollow artists i used to enjoy so deeply because they fully and truly showed their asses here once a Black man and a non-verbal Black woman became important undeniable parts of the cast
any arguments will catch an instablock. i do not give a single fuck about what a bunch of white men, trans or not, have to say about this. cause this fanbase is overwhelmingly white transmascs that do not deal with being non-verbal. either listen to me or get the fuck away from me. do better. you owe it to the Black fans of this series and Black people in general
