White queers are very interesting to me, they cant engage with media made by people of color a lot of the time without some kind of tomfoolery. With Sinners there is 0 attachment to any of the other characters and the white villain is so hot and cool and must be queer, so they ship him with a young black man he's directly manipulating but solely because its him, not because they really truly like the ship they just want the white man. They look at characters and ship them because they're two white guys but you know for a fact they wouldn't be shipped if they were two men of color (especially Black) (oh oh unless their Asian because to white queers love to treat Asian people in a fetishizing way or the token poc or "your close enough to white imo so your fine")
White queer fandom will go out of their way to ship white and\or light skin characters with anyone else but their partner of color, they ignore and avoid ships of color or ships that include characters of color of all sexualities but claim they don't like "x ship" because its het when they treat queer characters of color in relationship just as bad and in my opinion, worse than het ships of color which are already hated and ignored by fandom. Men of color, women of color, queer people of color in ships?? Not on their watch! These can't be cute, they've got too much melanin!
They claim they cant relate to characters of color and ignore feminist and queer stories and experiences of people of color. They say black women in ships are "too good" for the men their with so they take the man and ship him with everyone else because shes "strong and independent on her own and he cant handle all that!" Black character has chemistry with white character? No they dont! Your just reading into it too much! They're boring together according to white fandom!
They must insert their view of white queerness into anything they don't feel they can connect with, thing is about culture? Being mixed? Generational trauma among families of color? Must be about white queerness in some way!
Its not even just white queers, straight white women in fandom do it just as much.
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