It hurts to see how normalized whitewashing has become in media and fandom.
People are so caught up in making racism one thing, like slurs or stereotypes, that they forget or intentionally ignore the many layers to racism and it’s casual role in society and media.
Whitewashing pushes Eurocentric standards like beauty or lifestyle as the ideal, and actively harms People of Color by looking down upon or erasing our features, skin tones and culture.
Whitewashing is racist. Whitewashing is a form of racism.
Whitewashing is harmful, whitewashing is degrading, it’s dehumanizing. It makes you feel ashamed. It makes you feel ignored.
It makes you feel ugly.
Yet it’s so normalized that people don’t even recognize it as racist.
A comic book character with dark skin is played by a light skinned actor in live action, but no one blinks because both character and actor are the same race. They ignore the colorism.
An animated show based on a live action media animates an Actor of Color with lightened eyes, a thin nose and lightened skin. But no one blinks because “it’s just animation.”
A character of color’s culture is removed or pushed aside for a more American centric story and plays into the “American Dream” stereotype. This is cultural whitewashing.
This is casual racism in media.
No matter what form or what media, whitewashing is racism.
My whole life I’ve had people rubbish or laugh at or mock the things I value or find interesting, from activities to writing and literature genres, so by now you’d think I would be used to the deep, painful sadness that comes in the wake of being brave enough to voice an interest to someone and having them dismiss it like it’s nothing or tell you why it’s dumb. Apparently not.
Yes this rain fight hurts like fucking hell– but to me personally...they scene right before the rain fight hits more
Because you essentially watch as Will desperately tries to hold onto his friends and relive the joys of when they would play dnd together – and you have to watch as they literally don't notice his cry for help/his attempt to reignite their friendship. And instead they just...laugh at him and ignore him :(
And you can see the hurt in his eyes just
You just see his realisation that his friends just don't care about him anymore. And you can see how stupid he felt as he watched them talk about girls whilst he stood there just wanting to play dnd :(
It's that feeling that your friends have outgrown you and it fucking hurts
If anyone ever tells you period cramps don't hurt that bad hit them with a cider block and tell them they're being dramatic when they start screaming in pain
what hurts the most about moving away from home while keeping friends from there is that you keep coming home for holidays and at some point, you'll notice that you just simply Don't Fit into the friendgroup dynamics anymore, but that you can also not do much about it because that's just Who You Are Now.
btw i bruised (possibly fractured?) my tailbone so badly i can't move without excruciating pain and have to be helped around and cant even lie down/sit up without pain so. will not be on much as i try to heal