Fandoms hate People of Color

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[sivavakkiyar]

August 11th!

[geek-ramblings]

By Any Means Final Trailer

A notorious mafia hitman and a young Black FBI agent team up to investigate the murders of civil rights leaders in 1966 Mississippi.

A notorious mafia hitman and a young Black FBI agent team up to investigate the murders of civil rights leaders in 1966 Mississippi.

[specialagentartemis]

A lot of us learned certain theory terms--intersectionality, compulsory heterosexuality, Death of the Author--on social media. It's great to be able to discuss them! But it's important to know what you're discussing.

Kimberlé Crenshaw was the Black feminist scholar who coined the term "intersectionality." You can read her initial article coining and describing the theory "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics" (1989), her follow-up article expanding on it "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color" (1991), and a (shorter and easier to read) interview with her about what she meant and what she thinks about it "Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades Later" (2017).

Adrienne Rich was the lesbian feminist scholar and poet who coined the term "compulsory heterosexuality" in her article "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" (1980).

Roland Barthes was a French literary critic who coined the term "death of the author" in his essay "La mort de l'auteur" (The Death of the Author") (1967). This one is 6 pages long.

These are available on the internet - I highly recommend reading them and going straight to the source of what the authors said, and decide how much you agree with them and the uses they get put to!

[alexa-santi-author]

Also, Laura Mulvey’s concept of the “male gaze” from her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” It doesn’t mean what most people think, and even Mulvey says she’s developed the idea further since then.

[shereeluvssinners]

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[experienceandobservation]

Lupita Nyong'o | Who What Wear | July 09, 2026 | 📷 Kenny Germé

[vaultkniqht]

Couldn't find any info on this honors show other than the fact that it was shared on Fallout TV's IG stories but AARON FINALLY GETTING HIS FLOWERS!!!

[therozanov]

Those are wonderful memories for me. When you say dragged...

[walker-walker-fashion-baby]

No one ever acknowledges how fucked up is that scene from Abbott Elementary where Janine recognizes her mom by her footsteps and panics

[ddesole]

John Cho as William Shakespeare

in Drunk History 4.07 "Landmarks"

[walker-walker-fashion-baby]

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[michaeljacksonofficial]

“I feel Whitney is one of the greatest voices in the world. She could sing the yellow pages and I would buy it. I absolutely adore her and am her greatest fan.” -Michael Jackson, 2001

I have to tell you he could do it all. Whatever he put his mind to. His body, his movement, his songs, his writings, his words and he loved entertaining you…he loved entertaining you. -Whitney Houston, 2010

[dykewonder]

crazy how such a huge chunk of people in fandom dont treat "i dont write black characters in my fics because im afraid the big mean scary aggressive angry black people online are gonna Get Me" as the statement of vile racism that it is

[dykewonder]

all you people are going to hell and i mean it

[theamityelf]

The screenshotted comments are so annoyingly smug and rude about it, too. 😫

The frustrating thing is, the things they're saying are almost useful for the conversation, but they're working backwards from the conclusion they want to defend ("These findings are unrelated to race.") and so keep missing things– either deliberately or through accidental bias.

"People just want to bang a hot vampire. People just want to bang a villain."

First of all, there are hot vampires of many races in the film, and there are characters from many different places on the moral spectrum. The broad popularity of the trope Mafioso X Reader makes it pretty clear that people love a Smoke or Stack character when he's white.

Second of all, THIS IS THE CHARACTER TAG BREAKDOWN.

Not the shipping tags!

This isn't comparing how many X Readers each character has; it's literally how many fics INCLUDE each character. The disparity we're seeing here isn't the shipping disparity (which could easily be another conversation, because yes there are way more non-villain ships that get popular, in fandoms where there are white characters who aren't the villain). If your Remmick X Reader fic had any of the canon black characters in it, IT WOULD STILL BE INCREASING THE COUNT for their character tags!

The problem isn't that you don't want to bang Smoke or Stack. The problem is that in your brain, it's not just important that you bang Remmick; it's also important that the black characters have no role or involvement in the story. And the problem is that this is true on a wide scale.

The original poster wasn't sending personal letters to people who wrote X Reader, as much as each commenter seemed to take OP's observation as a personal slight. They were pointing to fandom-wide trends. This happens in every fandom, and these same excuses always pop up.

It's not about what you're drawn to. Literally just look at your own behavior and adjust it. That's what "doing better" is!

[dykewonder]

crazy how such a huge chunk of people in fandom dont treat "i dont write black characters in my fics because im afraid the big mean scary aggressive angry black people online are gonna Get Me" as the statement of vile racism that it is

[dykewonder]

all you people are going to hell and i mean it

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

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[dykewonder]

crazy how such a huge chunk of people in fandom dont treat "i dont write black characters in my fics because im afraid the big mean scary aggressive angry black people online are gonna Get Me" as the statement of vile racism that it is

[dykewonder]

all you people are going to hell and i mean it

[fellinesca]

The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996)

[guileheroine]

woc characters get put on a pedestal in their fandoms in a way that is so boring and itself kinda dehumanising. i dont just wanna hear about how they’re flawless queens, i want them to feel specific and real. and i understand why it happens, especially with younger fans, but fandom of these characters that’s oriented more around defending them from haters rather than engaging with them (beyond empty, repetitive adulation) is so… limiting and profoundly boring. you could explore these characters on their own merit instead you neglect any potential interiority, humanity, complexity in favour of letting rando haters be a hair trigger and building your faves up as impenetrable fortresses against them. and then its just girlboss with a coat of brown paint