I’ve been watching the new Sabrina show and it makes me so uncomfortable for so many reasons.
One, Prudence, just her entire existence. She serves no purpose other than to be “fantasy racist” against Sabrina for being a “half breed”. Why does this make me uncomfortable? Because she’s a black character being that way to a white character and at one point they literally attempted to lynch sabrina and immediately she had it turned back onto Prudence as revenge. Words cannot describe how wrong it is to have a black character play the oppressor role and use violence that historically in the states have been used against black people.
They also dive head first into blood libel. Its common place for witches in this show to kill and eat people, even saying at some point that Christian children are the devil’s favorite meal during the episode with the sleep demon.
There’s a scene in mines where Sabrina and the weird sisters go to “teach a lesson” to four football players who’d been tormenting a friend of Sabrina’s and the joke was “oh look at that they made them think that they were kissing hot girls but really!! actually kissing each other!!” as we as having one implied to be gay himself. Holy homophobia batman.
Gender has been brought up a handful of times but given how they handled everything else it’s probably going to be just the same way as the above. The few times I recall gender being brought up outside of Sabrina’s friend it was literally “man in a dress” levels of shit.
There’s probably more beyond what I watched and things that I’ve missed or forgotten about. But this show is Bad™ and its no shock to me that the people who did Riverdale did this.