I genuinely cannot believe this conversation has devolved into Toycowboyexpress invoking blood quantum laws while talking about an Indigenous person. They are seriously arguing that because Fox is both white and Indigenous, they are somehow āstealing representationā from Japanese people by purchasing an adopt and making that character Indigenous.
This is beyond inappropriate, blood quantum has historically been used to police, erase, and delegitimize Indigenous identity, and watching it get weaponized in princessfur discourse like this is disgusting. I donāt know how we ended up here, but holy shit.
Again I donāt really care whatās being talked about on other blogs, I canāt see it anyways besides what screenshots anons have sent me, but this tracks.
Princessfurs have historically had an issue with understanding racial complexities. The argument they default to is āYou arenāt ___ enough to do that.ā Miorjah themselves have claimed to be āculturally indianā while attempting to erase Beauās black heritage, because they, as a white person, didnāt find their circumstances to be āgood enough reasonā for Beau to claim they have black relatives, despite doing the same thing themselves to justify their āIndian heritageā. Kokokerome was also a victim of anti-poc rhetoric in the space, with his art being labeled as racist caricature for simply drawing full lips, and Titania, who was banned for discussing her own culture in a way that upset white people. While yes, all of these people have done many horrible things to multiple people in the community and should be held accountable for those misdeeds, that does not negate the fact that white princessfurs have a history of severely mistreating POC and being racist in general.
Racism, white supremacy, and misogyny are the foundation upon which the princessfur community is built upon. The community rewards whiteness, and is borderline obsessed with it. The same for slavery and race play kinks. āThe white as snow, super special, very last of her race, utterly pathetic and weak princess, chained to an evil, savage, dark furred predator dominant who abuses her but itās loveā is a trope that has been run through the ground in this community. Pretending that your own ocs within the fandom donāt somehow fall within the meek and powerless whitey x big and evil POC dynamic doesnāt make them immune to the inevitable progression towards the trope. Up until recently, princessfurs like Dolly, Miorjah, Beau, Aurelia, Belle, Parf, and many others would deck out their characters in Arabian Nights fetish outfits and write their stories to have them be white slaves to distant desert countries, a direct reflection of racist white artwork that fetishized the white slave female and found pleasure in watching her be abused sexually by her dark-skinned captors. Even when several people came out to discuss their discomfort with the way their history was being portrayed and fetishized, they were quieted and told they āwerenāt a monolithā and basically told to suck it up.Ā Princessfurs donāt respect POC. POC are a fetish source for them and nothing else. Even POC themselves engage in this type of self-demolition within these spaces, so long as it isnāt their own culture theyāre ripping from to make porn of, like Beau.Ā
Making ocs different races and cultures than the owner themselves is actually a good thing, when done responsibly, but princessfurs donāt research anything or attempt to display the cultures theyāre referencing with any sort of respect or reverence, because again, itās only for porn. Having ocs that differ from yourself can encourage you to research those cultures and share them with others in a respectful way. To do that though, princessfurs would have to see people other than their own as human beings, but they donāt, itās simply āinspirationā without any real meaning to it, making culture into a costume for their characters instead of integral to their ocās identity. Back in my day (aging myself here,) you were considered problematic if you didnāt have ocs that were diverse and well-researched.Ā
Hereās a brain twister: why arenāt there any popular Japanese princess ocs? My belief is because the traditional Japanese JÅ«nihitoe isnāt sexy, so they donāt care for it! They wonāt use it if they canāt make it horny!
artwork commissioners/outfit owners as follows (in order)
Dolly, dolly, dolly, beau, beau, beau, beau, miorjah, miorjah, aurelia, parf
