Artist: "Gawd why cant people draw characters the right way?"
Same artist: *Doesn't draw the characters accurately either* "Hey its my interpretation."

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Artist: "Gawd why cant people draw characters the right way?"
Same artist: *Doesn't draw the characters accurately either* "Hey its my interpretation."
So, not to be a negative nancy, but who’s gonna tell them that all these characters are either aliens or canonically white? Like, they literally just painted Black Canary’s skin to change her ethnicity, which last I checked, was... bad???
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Something that I would like to explain to the portuguese cosplay community
[EDIT] Since I think I've missed some points, and that the last one was incomplete, I'm deleting the old one and posting the revised version. [EDIT]
This will be a tiny explanation of what is black/brownface (more in cosplay than anything). Up until now nothing like this happened around here, but I would like to make a statement and expose this in case someone wasn't aware of what this is, and it's harm towards people.
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|||||*Atenção*||||| Eu não estou a dizer que não podes fazer os cosplays que tu queres. Só estou a explicar o porquê de pintares o teu tom de pele ser errado, e porque não deves. Porque em cosplay podes fazer o que tu quisseres. E como refiro no post: toda a gente reage de uma maneira diferente, uns bem e outros mal. Mas constantes ataques e insultos é considerado abuso, e é errado. No entanto, só porque uma pequena parte de um grupo reage e age dessa maneira, não quer dizer que todos os outros também o façam. Algumas pessoas pode ficam excessivamente defensivas antes de conhecerem todos os factos. Em vez de ouvire os factos, atacam logo uma pessoa. Mas isso existe em todo o lado, e temos de lidar com isso no nosso dia a dia. Uma atitude calma, a racionalização da situação, e uma discussão ou debate minimamente pacifico ajuda sempre a ultrapassar ou a clarificar o que for preciso. E antes de mais, só porque eu entendo e apoio este ideal, não quer dizer que concorde, apoie ou fique parada quando vejo múltiplos ataques pessoais, bullying e injurias a uma pessoa que o tenha feito. Sou contra qualquer tipo de violência, e sou a favor da prevenção e educação, não do ataque e julgamento/preconceito automático e constante. Se há coisa que mais me desagrada são extremismos (e a ideia de que toda a gente que faz parte de algum movimento é automáticamente assim).|||||
Korra é a animação "da moda" de momento, e já é de esperar que alguém faça cosplay dela mais tarde ou mais cedo, inclusive já sei de pessoas que o planeiam e/ou já estejam na fase de costura. Também sei que muitos, no que toca a cosplay em geral, procuram recriar a personagem com o máximo de precisão possível.
Tecidos de cor identica? Perfeito!
Molde e silhueta igual? Sim senhora!
Cabelo é a cópia da personagem? Estamos a ir bem!
Cor de pele idêntica? "Não, mas isso também resolve-se com base/tinta/bodypai-" STOP!!! Esta é a parte em que eu me vejo obrigada a intervir. E vou tentar explicar ao máximo todos os aspectos deste assunto que o fandom de Korra tem vindo a levantar várias vezes.
Por isso:
Se não percebes porque é que algumas pessoas se sentem insultadas por modificares o teu tom de pele para cosplay, lê isto.
Se não vês qual é o mal de modificar a cor de pele para te assemelhares a uma raça diferente, e te sentes insultada/o por ter sido chamada à atenção em relacção a isso, lê isto.
Se não conheces os termos blackface/brownface e whitewashing, lê isto
I'd like to say something.
Regarding a sensitive subject. I am going to try my best to make this straightforward and plain, even though emotions have run high on both sides of this topic.
Please, do not paint your skin brown or black for cosplay. Please. It is hurtful.
-But wait, I'm not doing it in a derogatory or mean spirit!
I am not saying that you had anything but clear or good intentions. I do not actually imagine that you wrung your hands evilly while buying dark foundation or body paint, or that you laughed maniacally as you applied them to your skin.
I am only saying that the end result is hurtful. I am appealing to the idea that people were unintentionally hurt by this and perhaps it could be avoided in the future.
-But I see other people do it all the time!
Again, they might have had clear and good intentions, but the result is the same. When someone paints their skin to resemble another ethnic group's skin, people get hurt.
-But if I don't paint my skin, I won't look exactly like the character!
No, you won't. Because the world is diverse and people are diverse and sometimes you get to look like your hero/heroine and sometimes you don't. You do the best you can with who you are.
-I've read this, and I still don't see the problem. I still want to paint my skin.
As I've not yet mastered telepathic control, you are free to do so. But I also invite you to wear this paint all day, every day, for the rest of your life. Not in cosplay, just as yourself. Because dark skin is not something that is worn when it is convenient, or particularly appealing, or advantageous to a situation. It is part of millions of people's identities and everyday life.
It’s hard to enter a store these days without being visually assaulted by labels, logos, and signs that appeal to our environmental consciousness. It turns out that there’s an even more powerful way for marketers to signal an environmental product to shoppers: Make it brown.
Keep reading . . .
Brownwashing: Why Green Consumers Buy Brown Things (via GOOD)
Manufacturers have found a new way to appeal to eco-friendly consumers: Brown it. The Wall Street Journal lays out the trend: Dunkin' Donuts, Cinnabon, and Target are swapping their white napkins for brown ones. Seventh Generation dyes its translucent diapers brown. Cascade has introduced a new, fiber-heavy beige toilet paper it's dubbed "Moka."
When asked why they went brown, companies are transparent: The color "symbolizes" eco-friendliness. Brown paper products have been shown to make people "feel like they were doing something good for the environment." Consumers need "visual differentiation" to know which products are environmentally sound. It's not even so important that a product be brown, just "that it's not white."
The Journal points out the obvious: Brown doesn't necessarily mean green. Today, "white paper can be made from 100% recycled fibers and whitened without chemical chlorine, traditionally the primary complaint against it." Seventh Generation actually adds a step to the production process—brown pigmentation—to make its diapers appear eco. It's not clear whether Target, Dunkin', and Cinnabon's new napkins are any better for the environment than the old ones were, they're just browner.
And at this point, it doesn't really matter: Brown is firmly linked to green in the consumer's mind. Eco-minded consumers now reach for brown, flecked products because they assume less environmentally conscious paper companies would take pains to dye them white. In fact, they may be rushing to tint everything beige.
Article by Amanda Hess, Lifestyle Editor, GOOD
Photo via (cc) Flickr user SixRevisions