South Park sideblog. Warning, I tend to be blunt and my opinions tend to be unpopular. Questioning popular fanon and overused cliches is not a personal attack. I try my best not to get involved in drama, but unfortunately, I have pissed a few people off, so feel free to block the #discourse tag. Adult, she/her. ✡️
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Headcanons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 teen Stan teen Kyle Shelly
Why Kyle's portrayal by the fandom is so problematic (updated 7/11/26)
My views on Shelly's role within the Marsh family (roleplay-based, but still relevant)
Other various ramblings can be found under the my posts tag
If the person who sent this into the Let My Blorbo Go tournament is reading this, please be assured that you are not alone. The fact of the matter is that it is very hard to be Jewish in this fandom and the South Park fandom on Tumblr has a surprising amount of toxic positivity. As a result of this toxic positivity, people are too scared to criticize certain headcanons and fanon. I encourage you to speak out even more and don't be afraid of backlash. If people are getting angry and defensive because you're calling out antisemitic stereotypes, that is on them, not you. Let them get angry. At the end of the day, they're the ones who prioritize ReSpEcTiNg HeAdCaNoNs over respecting actual Jewish people, which says a lot about the type of people that they are.
Other Jewish members of the fandom, this goes for you too. I know that there are a lot of people besides myself and the person who submitted Kyle to that bracket who are uncomfortable with his fanon portrayal. Don't be afraid to speak out.
In conclusion, please vote for Kyle in the above link. His write-up in that tournament is the most well-written and detailed one there and if my pinned post won't convince people, maybe this will.
Cher Horowitz (Clueless) vs Kyle Broflovski (South Park)
Cher Horowitz
Kyle Broflovski
Remaining time: 3 days 11 hours
Propaganda under the cut:
Cher Horowitz (Clueless)
she is generally beloved and and icon, and i get that her being jewish wasn't actually mentioned in the movie, but with that name and some of the references in movie? but fandom never really goes there, so, erased i guess?
Kyle Broflovski (South Park)
In what way isn't he a victim of fandom antisemitism? Despite Matt Stone being a secular Jew, South Park has always been a bit contentious on tumblr for obvious reasons. However, Kyle, partially based on Stone himself, does tend to subvert a lot of stereotypical traits of Jewish men commonly found in media. He's assertive and athletic, while also being considered one of the smartest and most sensible boys in his class. Yeah he has his issues, but he and Stan (the character based on other co-creator Trey Parker) tend to be the most sensible characters.
In fanworks, Kyle's Judaism is either almost completely erased or portrayed in the most stereotypical and over the top way possible. He's a popular blorbo for young gentiles to project onto, which often leads to them assigning him certain traits or features that carry some deeply unfortunate implications to anyone familiar with the history of how Jewish men are portrayed. For example, he'll often be reduced to a pathetic nerd who can't get a date, who's been pining over his (generally male, despite the character having the most canonical girls who've been interested in him) love interest. Many times (as in it's his second most popular pairing), said "love interest" is Eric Cartman, a character that's canonically called him a K***, dressed up as Hitler multiple times, and tried to incite genocide. He's also often written as sexually submissive in deeply fetishistic ways. Out of all the main characters, he'll often always being the one getting pregnant in Mpreg, or being the Omega in Omegaverse. In the hands of a skilled author none of these are an issue per se, but none of these gentiles are particularly skilled, and end up just recreating medieval blood libel for the modern audience.
Meta is also awful. Often Kyman shippers, needing to justify why they can't get enough of shipping a Jewish kid with a nazi, will write screeds on how he's just as bad as this kid. They're convinced he's actually jealous of the way he can persuade people, not that he's infuriated that this kid is blatantly antisemitic. "Sneaky" and "underhanded" and "duplicitous" are words I've seen used. Some Jewish and gentile fans have spoken against it, but often these people point to the few Jewish Kyman fans to say they're doing nothing wrong.
I'm aware there's a lot to critique about South Park and how it handles Judaism. However, whatever you might think about the show, the fandom is infinitely worse, and Kyle's been probably the most egregious victims of fandom antisemitism I've ever seen.
Bonus points for his parents, Gerald and Sheila (two of the more competent parents in town both consistently presented and satired as liberals) being portrayed in multiple fanworks as evil and abusive homophobes who his gentile love interest (usually his best friend Stan or the previously mentioned antisemitic Cartman) must save him from.
The fandom is a lot of young and ignorant gentile kids, so it's extra brutal.
listen, the show itself is cowritten by a jew and you can tell he's making fun of antisemitism when he writes it in. the fandom, on the other hand, is full of people who do NOT FUCKING KNOW how to replicate that style of humor or how to adapt it into more serious fanwork. which cant be helped i suppose. but have you seen some of the kyman fanfiction out there.
kyle unironically sparked my interest in reconnecting with my heritage when i was younger (not raised observant, i was like 12ish) so i love him dearly even if part of the joke is that the jews in south park aren't actually portrayed accurately :(
I saw this in yet another fic. PLEASE use the word "aquiline". I can't believe that so many of you think that "hooked" is acceptable. If you're not Jewish, you don't get to "reclaim" that word.
Even when it is a harmless drawing, the "hooked nose" is a harmful stereotype.
I hate when a character is in canon, an imperfect parent but then the fandom decides to write them as the most abusive worst parent ever. It's so OOC! Like, I'm sorry, but all real parents make mistakes. That's just how it is. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised because fandom is where nuance goes to die.
A tween/teenage girl being boy crazy is infinitely more interesting, relatable, and loveable than Ms. Sarcastic, Aggressive, Resting-Bitch-Face could ever be. And I will die on that hill.
Maybe it's just me but I'm just tired of the whole "Canon is supposed to be disregarded in fandom" thing because all it does is make some folks annoying and hypocritical within said fandom.
They like — no — love to say "Characters are supposed to be dolls we play in our dollhouse" or "Canon doesn't matter" until it benefits them; this also includes headcanons, fanons, and ships.
Something that I really like about Kevlly is that despite (or because) being the oldest, they’re both very clearly the least favourite child of their families, and also imo are probably also the children that are closest to their fathers personality-wise. And Shelley does have quite a few girl friends that we see, I do like the idea that she and Kevin can kinda like… just connect and commiserate on things and understand why the other might sometimes need to vent about their younger siblings even if they do care about them but it’s… complicated.
Someone: *points out a problematic trope re: the representation of a minority group in a popular work*
Basically every third comment: "WHY CAN'T YOU HANDLE MEMBERS OF X MINORITY BEING WRONG??? THAT REALLY DOES HAPPEN YOU KNOW!!! I THINK YOU JUST WANT THEM TO ALL BE PAINTED AS SUNSHINE AND ROSES CUZ YOU CAN'T HANDLE REALITY!!!"
I hate how I can't share an opinion (especially a negative one) without feeling like I need to preempt with a dozen "I'm x so don't take this the wrong way", or "I promise I'm not x", just to stop people from flooding me with bad-faith accusations meant to discredit, at the end of the day, a simple opinion I'm sharing that can be as harmless as "I didn't like how they handled x character's story". Even then, it doesn't stop everyone. It's like certain people expect you to be an unending fountain of positivity and not express yourself and your actual opinions, even on your own blog ffs (it gets you vagueblogged about or namedropped as "so-and-so must be an x, they have x opinion").
