TO PEOPLE WRITING HISPANIC / LATINX CHARACTERS:
not everyone goes by latinx. there is a big movement now because spanish is a gendered language that many people identify as latinx, not all of us do. some of us are completely okay saying latina or latino. it doesnât make anyone better or worse, itâs a preference.
know the difference between hispanic and latinx. they are not interchangeable and many people ( myself included and iâm puerto rican ) prefer to be called hispanic. if you donât know the difference, google is your friend.
stop fetishing us. we are people. this isnât like being into roleplay, we are a people. we have a culture an identity and turning characters / people into the lowest common denominator of a specified group contributes to a culture where la migra porn is a thing. itâs disgusting. STOP.
STOP SEXUALIZING US. this goes with the above but honestly, this is the worst thing iâve seen. women come in all shapes and sizes. not all hispanic / latinx women are that hourglass shape.Â
not all of us have big boobs or a big ass. some of us are thick minus that shape and are called gorda / gordita. thereâs a culture that makes women that are on the bigger side but donât have this hourglass shape to exercise more or are told that they need to put down the fork. placed in a culture that wants their women thick but not like that.Â
THE FLIP SIDE, some of us are very skinny. some of are called flaca. are constantly told that we donât look like weâre hispanic / latinx because â arenât you supposed to have curves ? â some of us are told to eat more because weâre â letting our people down â simply by walking around with no curves.
if your muse is skinny and hispanic / latinx: EMBRACE IT. if you muse is thick but not that curvy shape thatâs stereotypical, EMBRACE IT. stop having body claims that are disproportionate / are completely different than your muse because they have to look like that because of x, y, z.
not everyone speaks spanish fluently. some people speak spanish as their second language. some as their first. some learned both at the same time. and some learned spanish in high school as a requirement and otherwise know little to nothing at all. all of these are okay. itâs not whitewashing to have a character disconnected from their culture because their parents / whoever raised them chose not to teach them this skill. itâs something that happens. itâs realistic.
spanglish is a thing but not the way youâre thinking. people that donât speak spanish fluently / know enough but not all donât just go: today iâm going to la tienda. thatâs not how it works. sometimes weâre speaking spanish fluently and we have a brain fart and might go, â uh⊠store â momentarily forgetting that word in spanish. sometimes weâre speaking english and then we get pissed and thatâs when we go from english to a whole lotta shit you might not understand but we do. spanglish is not half a sentence in spanish and half in english.Â
stop contributing to stereotypes. not everyone is named maria with a last name like lopez. there are plenty of people with white people names. just like maria is a hispanic / latinx name, so can nicole. if the person holding that name is of that ethnicity, itâs not a white person name anymore. you can have first generation people with parents that are capable of handling their everyday lives without their â translator â. you can have families not super close-knit. they can have small families. they can have big. they could grow up poor. they could grow up well off. all of these things are not far-fetched or unrealistic. they are reality.
STOP WHITE WASHING. this can be a whole post of itâs own but just⊠stop. you like that faded aesthetic, cool. you can get that aesthetic without turning your muse white. just like that actor / model / etc. takes faded pics on their phone and it doesnât stop them from having their skin color, you can work your ass in photoshop the same way.
NOT ALL OF US ARE BROWN. some of us are black. some of us are white and burn in the sun. some of us are brown. some of us have blonde hair and blue eyes. some have red hair and freckles. some of us have thick, coarse hair. some have fine, thin hair. some of us have short, tight curls. we donât all look like george lopez or america ferrera.Â
            honestly, iâm just tired of seeing these things in the rp world. people that want to rp someone elseâs culture but take a look at a buzzfeed clip for two seconds and say nailed it ! and no, not everyone is like this. not everyone contributes to this culture of stereotypes / lack of research on a culture theyâre writing     but enough do. so please, if youâre writing a character of hispanic / latinx decent, do some research. google. ask your friends ( real life, on here ) that are of that decent. you can learn some slang, some things that maybe arenât on google. no one on this website really bites, especially if youâre trying to correctly portray their ethnicity. so just please make sure youâre not contributing to some of these things and write your lovely character !
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