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did u know that rainbow rowell is horribly racist in her depiction of park?
I have read the book multiple times, and nothing stood out for me as seeming ‘horribly racist’ or even, ‘hmmm, not sure I would have said that like that’ racist. There are characters who are MEANT to be shown as racist and/or insensitive, and I don’t know how you do that without … y’know … doing that. I am a white person, but I hope I’m not completely insensitive and desensitized to the feelings and plights of others. If you mean Rowell’s description of Park’s appearance is racist, I have seen one or two posts claiming that, and I’m not sure what to think.
I guess I think that the messages of the book are more important than a short description that maybe could have been more culturally sensitive. I guess I think that Asian-Americans are not often depicted in books, YA or otherwise, and while I completely acknowledge that truly problematic depictions are NOT better than no characters at all, I don’t think that Park as a character is problematic. Rainbow Rowell wrote a blog post about Why Park Is Korean that you might want to read, if you haven’t already.
If you read the entire book and still think that Park is depicted ON THE WHOLE in a racist way, I’d be interested to hear your reasoning. It could be that I am blinded by my culture and upbringing, but I hope not.
Bottom line: I’m a fan of Rainbow Rowell’s books, Eleanor & Park was the first one I read, and I’m not going to stop posting stuff about her books because of this message. If you hoped I would, you should probably unfollow me.
Rainbow Rowell’s book isn’t only racist because she wrote racist characters and described Park in a racist way. The racism goes so much deeper than that. She fetishizes Park, butchers Korean culture, uses racism as a prop, emasculates Park, uses slurs and words with racist connotations to describe Koreans, and so much more.
And before I explain all of this, I’m going to begin by saying that I myself am an overweight 16 year old KOREAN AMERICAN female. I’ve read Eleanor and Park and recently started a blog dedicated to analyzing and talking about the specific forms of racism in the novel. This book should’ve been made for me. I mean, a fat protagonist and Korean representation? I should’ve been jumping over the moon!
But I’m not.
The reason why you (and many other white people) don’t see the racism in Eleanor and Park is because it’s the sneaky kind. The kind that you can’t see or recognize unless you’ve gone through it.
Another reason why you might not recognize it is because the protagonist herself, Eleanor, is one of the most racist characters in the book. And I say this because the others (Steve, usually) are blatant racists while Eleanor is not.
Steve’s racism is pretty obvious in the book. He basically says all Asians are the same, makes fun of Park’s ethnicity, etc, etc. People like him are pretty easy to spot.
Eleanor, on the other hand, is the kind who I like to call the “Good White Friend”. She is different! She doesn’t think the N word, doesn’t call people slurs, doesn’t believe in stereotypes. That means she’s not racist, right?
Park’s eyes got wide. Well, sort of wide. Sometimes she wondered if the shape of his eyes affected how he saw things.
- pg 64
Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic.
- pg 72
“Oriental’s for food,” he’d said.
“Whatever, La Choy Boy,” she’d said back.
- pg 53
(If you don’t know why this is offensive, it’s because Oriental is actually a HUGE, disgusting slur that dehumanizes East Asians and Eleanor basically dismisses that and doesn’t give a shit about what is and is not offensive.)
His mom looked exactly like a doll.
- pg 126
(Calling an East Asian woman a doll is a common way to objectify and fetishize her. The term has racist connotations.)
Apparently not.
Plus Rowell didn’t research ANYTHING for her book. If she had she would’ve known that Kung Fu and Tae Kwon Do (both of which Park supposedly takes) are not the same thing, and only Tae Kwon Do is Korean. She would know that Min Dae (Park’s mother’s name) is NOT a Korean name. (I don’t even think it’s Asian - it sounds like she grabbed random syllables and slammed them together to make an exotic, “Korean-sounding” name.)
And - here’s the kicker - she would’ve known that Park is a Korean LAST NAME.
And don’t even get me started on Park.
Not only does he hate himself, but he actively wishes he was white. Which I would not have a problem with (because I’ve been there and I know what that’s like. I know what it feels like to look in the mirror and want to claw your own face off because you think your Korean blood makes you hideous) if a) it had been written by someone who HAD GONE THROUGH A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE AND THEREFORE DO IT JUSTICE and b) have Park come to terms with his heritage and learn to love his Korean side.
But this never happens. He continues to hate himself and never embraces his ethnicity. He shames his mother for not completely assimilating (which is bullshit) and envies his brother for “being white” (when he’s not? Just because he looks “white” doesn’t mean he is? God, Rowell fucked over mixed kids too with this - she’s basically saying that if you don’t fit into the stereotypical “Asian” look that mixed kids can’t consider themselves Asian.)
The only thing that distracts Park from his self-loathing is Eleanor. The only real characteristics he has (besides being sarcastic) is his hatred of his ethnicity and his love for Eleanor. Which might seem romantic at first, but it isn’t healthy.
Why doesn’t Park learn to love himself? The only thing that comes close to that is when he puts on eyeliner but even that doesn’t stop him from hating his Korean blood. (And it reinforces the idea that Asian men can’t be masculine which is a whole ‘nother topic that deals with toxic masculinity and how our White-centric, racist media shits on Asian men.)
Park’s whole existence revolves around Eleanor. What is that supposed to mean? Why doesn’t he have any other character traits? Is that all we’re good for?
Rowell fetishizes Park, doesn’t do her research, and completely fucks Koreans over by throwing us a poorly developed, disgusting caricature of ourselves and everyone else congratulates her for it.
Do you know what messages this is sending? Do you know what it’s telling people like me?
It’s not telling me, the fat girl, that I’m worthy of love.
It’s not telling me, the teenager, that life is hard.
It’s telling me, the Korean, that people like me don’t deserve to have proper representation.
It’s telling me, the Korean, that the only way for me to be in a relationship is to devote my life to someone else.
And that is fucked up.
Reblogging from my personal because these are some of the topics I’ll be addressing on this blog.
(Also because I was supposed to post it here and now I’m too lazy to delete it.)
nanites!sayer can pilot a human body regardless of the body being conscious or not
sayer is all about efficiency and optimization, killing people without any remorse if it thought that that person better serves humanity dead than alive
but it kept hale alive when it really didn’t have to, it could’ve just piloted that body and it didn’t even have to properly revive him, it probably would’ve been much faster and more efficient and it didn’t have to take the time to explain its plans and let him rest
and all this happened before it was uploaded into future’s programming bay
conclusion: sayer had A Thing for hale
sayer and hale are each other's types and they should totally make out,,, no joke this is completely 100% serious backed up by canon and not just me projecting
like,,, sayer hates Earth and humanity for being attached to it,,, well wouldn't you know hale has no attachment to Earth and the only place he calls home is Typhon,, which is something he shares with sayer. and sayer is the one to point this out!! when they were on a space walk,, ain't that a gr8 first date
and that was a really hectic time so sayer was like, and i quote "we've been very touch and go these past couple of days. when all of this is over we should catch up and have cake." did it just,,, ask him out on a second date?
and sayer /loves/ micromanaging people and constantly ordering them around, and it's annoyed that it has to coerce and manipulate people into followings its orders,,, meanwhile here's hale lazer knifing himself all cuz a sexy voiced ai asked him to and called him a cute pet name. conclusion: sayer picked hale to have a venom au with cuz he's got a bad case of obedience kink
and sayer told him that he should be proud of himself for putting so much on the line for it and humanity. and it ended up feeling apologetic for putting him though all that and promising that it should do better by him,,, going out of its way to save him and send him back to Earth past the point that he was useful. im??? is this the same sayer???? that would just callously murder thousands of people for science and productivity???
this podcast is a romance
I've just started listening to your podcast and I love it! So much!! All this queerness speaks to my soul. I also really love how Cecil has a female voice actor and he/him pronouns. Is he trans by any chance?
That’s a great question, Anon! We haven’t really addressed it head-on in the show yet for a couple of reasons:
1) As I’ve mentioned before, gender and sexuality are not loaded concepts in Hyperion City in the way they are for us. You’ll notice that Juno occasionally refers to himself as a lady, and also that no one in-show ever calls him bisexual or queer. So someone in Hyperion can say “I think I’ll be dating ladies now” or “The body I was born into isn’t the right one for me” or “Can you please refer to me as ‘they’ from now on?” and it’s pretty normalized; it doesn’t require taking on a queer identity in the way that it does for us queers in the real world!
2) We want to be very thoughtful about how we do explicitly address trans characters (especially in the audio drama format, which presents unique challenges), and therefore we are taking our time! It’s also possible that we will get to this first in the Second Citadel universe, which in some ways is much more analogous to our world.
And now that I’ve talked your ear off, I will return to your actual question by saying that, while Cecil would not think of himself as trans, he is not what we would call cis. But I think we can all agree that he is a brat.
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Based on the Among Us game! Stars two different couples. Pink is a crewmate who is a little on the dumb side, as an imposter White should have no issue picking him off. But he finds himself hesitating as the lovable idiot worms his way into his heart.
Starting to post Love Among Us on Webtoons for easier consumption! :D I’ll be uploading a few pages every day until I get caught up ^^
bisexuals of the blade 💜 ⚔️ 🗡
meaning: a solidarity movement made up of bisexuals who support all of our m-spec siblings, whether they’re pan, ply, omni, or beyond!
I’m really tired of following bi positivity blogs only to find out somewhere down the line that they’re part of an exclusionist group called the “battleaxe bis” (anti pansexual/polysexual/omnisexual/any multi-gender-attracted label that’s not ‘bi’), so I thought I’d try spreading a message of support and acceptance instead!
- FAQ -
what makes someone a ‘blade bisexual’?
all you have to do is acknowledge and uplift pan/ply/omni/etc. people!
are there any symbols we can use to signify we’re bi people who support other m-spec orientations?
yes! personally, I’ve been using the following:
sword (of any kind)
double/dual-wielded swords
purple heart
official flag (see above image)
I wholeheartedly support pan/ply/omni/etc. people. what can I do to join?
to show your support, put at least one of the previous symbols somewhere in your bio using emojis!
that’s everything I can think of! if you have any more questions, please don’t hesitate to ask! 🌈